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Authorities say seven people were detained after police found 18 migrants dead, including a child, in an abandoned truck near Bulgaria’s capital Sofia.

Rescue workers in Turkey have pulled at least three men from the rubble, more than 11 days after they were trapped when a string of massive earthquakes hit the country and neighboring Syria, officials say.

Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness, according to research published Thursday in The Lancet — protection, experts say, that’s on par with what’s provided through two doses of an mRNA vaccine.

Finland is now ready to drop plans for a partnered NATO entry with Sweden as Helsinki is unwilling to stay out of the military alliance for longer than necessary.

North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles off the country’s east coast on Monday morning, one day after the U.S. held joint military drills with South Korea and Japan.

International atomic inspectors last week discovered that Iran has accumulated uranium enriched to levels just shy of what is needed for a nuclear weapon, according to a new report.

An analysis of images from a newly revealed underground air force base in Iran named “Eagle 44” reveals that the site is likely being prepared to host advanced Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets, The New York Times reported Saturday.

Scores of people have been detained in Suriname after demonstrators stormed the parliament building amid bloody anti-government protests in the smallest independent country on the South American continent, Worthy News monitored.

The United Arab Emirates has inaugurated a massive complex to unite the world’s religions in the desert state. Backed by the Vatican, the Abrahamic Family House contains a mosque, synagogue, and church in the UAE’s capital Abu Dhabi.

A British court has sentenced a former security guard at Britain’s embassy in Berlin to more than 13 years imprisonment for spying for Russia.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose government supports persecuted Christians, says he wants to help to rebuild efforts by Syria’s Melkite Greek Catholics after at least one of its priests died in last week’s earthquakes.

In response to the ongoing drought in his country, the president of Kenya called for a national day of prayer Tuesday.

A U.N. Security Council report has identified an Iran-based senior al-Qaeda fugitive from U.S. justice as the “de facto and uncontested” new leader of the terrorist group.

Russian journalist and mother of two young children Maria Ponomarenko has been sentenced to six years imprisonment in Russia for criticizing the Russian invasion of Ukraine and highlighting the deadly military attack on hundreds of civilians sheltering in a Ukrainian theater last year, Radio Free Europe (RFE) reports.

The United States military on Monday shot down an Iranian-made drone it said was spying on a strategic US army base in northeast Syria, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

Moldova’s president says Russia is plotting to overthrow the country’s pro-European Union government after a Russian missile violated the country’s airspace.

The mayor of the Dutch fishing town of Urk has publicly thanked God for the rescue of a four-person Dutch crew after their boat sank off the coast of Britain.

There was concern a Wednesday that the Avian flu, better known as Bird flu, was spreading across the world, threatening global food supplies.

Scotland’s first minister resigned Wednesday after coming under fire over her controversial gender change law. Nicola Sturgeon pushed through legislation that saw convicted rapists being transferred to women’s prisons as they declared themselves “female.”

New Zealand authorities confirm that a 6.1 magnitude struck near the capital Wellington after four people, including a child, were killed as ex-Cyclone Gabrielle moved away.