As Pope Leo prepares to visit northern Lebanon, Christian border villages in the south feel abandoned and struggle to rebuild after the war with Israel.

Analysts instead blame criminal gangs for the kidnapping of more than 250 schoolchildren last week.

At least 128 people have died and hundreds remain unaccounted for following the fire which engulfed several tower blocks.

The war is being fuelled by regional powers and the US president may have some leverage over them.

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.

Senegal’s prime minister and Nigeria’s former leader say they do not believe the military takeover was genuine.

South Africa scrambles to rescue 17 men lured to fight for Russia in Ukraine, exposing a web of exploitation, politics and international mercenary recruiting involving a former president’s daughter.

People who left Afghanistan urge the US president not to toughen his stance after an attack allegedly carried out by an Afghan national.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, whose residence was searched earlier in the day by anti-corruption investigators.

On the second day of his inaugural overseas trip, Pope Leo XIV visited the ancient site of the First Council of Nicaea, in Turkey, urging Christians — and all faiths — to reject the use of religion to justify violence.

Researchers heard electric crackles on 28 hours of recordings made over two Martian years.

The death toll from flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island Friday rose to 174 on Friday with 79 people missing, authorities said.

The death toll from flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island Friday rose to 164 on Friday with 79 people missing, authorities said.

Syria’s foreign ministry said in a statement Friday that the attack was “a horrific massacre” and said women and children were among those killed.

Pedro Castillo and Martín Vizcarra are the latest in a series of Peruvian presidents to be sent to prison.

The three nuns say they were taken out of the convent against their will and placed in a care home.

India’s olive ridley turtle numbers appear to have rebounded after years of patchwork efforts to stem their decline. Can it last?

It took several attemps for Pope Leo and church clergy to unveil a plaque covered by a white sheet at an Istanbul cathedral.

The village of Beit Jinn came under attack in what Israel said was an operation against a militant group.

Authorities say 89 bodies are unintentified and 79 people remain injured after Wednesday’s blaze.

As the last flames are extinguished, many are now asking who is to blame for the deadly blaze.