A gas explosion at a coal mine in China's northern province of Shanxi killed at least 82 people. Official news agency Xinhua said the accident happened on Friday evening and 247 workers were trapped.

Cruelty has become commonplace in the West Bank, where extremist Israeli settlers beat and shoot Palestinians, steal their sheep, uproot their olive groves and torch cars and home

The appeal marked the first significant update since the former British prince was arrested in February over allegations of misconduct while in office.

The United States on Friday temporarily banned the entry of lawful permanent residents ​who have been in the Democratic Republic of ‌Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in the previous 21 days, citing concerns over Ebola.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is running out of time to win his war against Ukraine, amid a stalemate on the battlefield and growing troubles at home, a European intelligence chief has told CNN.

Israeli forces arrested 430 people on board 50 ships in international waters on Tuesday to halt a flotilla of volunteers trying to bring aid supplies to the Gaza Strip.

Raúl Castro is back at the center of U.S.-Cuba tensions after a U.S. indictment accused him in the 1996 shootdown of exile planes.

Trump joked about using a U.S. aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, to scare the Cuban regime led by Miguel Díaz-Canel into capitulation.