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Dozens of civilians, mostly children, have been killed and others wounded in an airstrike by the US-backed, Saudi-led coalition in Yemen that hit a bus in the rebel-held north of the country. The International Committee of the Red...

The EU wants to take legal measures to control terrorist content online, according to media reports. EU Security Commissioner Julian King said voluntary agreements had not provided citizens with enough protection. The EU’s Security Commission is...

Jewish and Muslim leaders from Germany led a memorial for the victims of the Auschwitz death camp on the 74th anniversary of Nazi deportations from the Litzmannstadt ghetto. The ceremony was part of an educational tour....

Hundreds of thousands of Argentinians had campaigned to completely decriminalize abortion in the predominantly Catholic country. Abortion is currently allowed if the mother has been raped or her health is at risk. Argentine senators voted against...

One of Japan’s most prestigious medical schools has admitted deliberately altering entrance exam scores for more than a decade to restrict the number of female students and ensure more men became doctors. Tokyo Medical University manipulated...

For the first 36 hours after Hurricane Maria, five-year-old Keydiel and his mother Shaina were trapped by the toppled trees that blocked the doors to their home in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Eventually, neighbors cleared the sturdy tamarind...

The president of the Ivory Coast has pardoned 800 people including the former first lady Simone Gbagbo, who was serving a 20-year sentence for her role in the deadly post-election violence of 2010. Gbagbo was convicted of undermining...

Donald Trump has warned America’s trading partners that anyone who does business with Iran will not be doing business with the US, after his administration reimposed blanket sanctions. The US president described the new sanctions, which hit...

Germany is trying to boost cyber defense with the Bundeswehr’s Cyber and Information Domain Service (CIDS), against the background of rising numbers of cyberattacks as well as funding and recruitment challenges. Along a broad, tree-lined avenue...

A German woman and her partner have been jailed after prostituting a 9-year-old boy to pedophiles they found online. Investigators say it’s one of the most horrific child abuse cases they’ve ever seen. A court in...