Egypt | Security forces kill 19 involved in attack on Copts

Egyptian security forces killed 19 militants suspected in a weekend attack on a busload of Coptic Christians, the Interior Ministry said yesterday. Photos released by the

Italy | Severe weather: Storms, floods in Sicily kill at least 12 people

Storms lashing Sicily have killed at least 12 people with torrential floods, Italian authorities said as the country’s leader headed yesterday to the stricken Mediterranean island. Divers

WWI centenary to be marked in London and Paris, not Berlin

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I on French soil, and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be

This Day in History | 1978 Iran’s PM steps down amid riots

The appointment of Mr Sharif-Emami, a Shia Muslim, by the Shah just over two months ago was designed to put an end to the religious violence

Offbeat | Python presents slithery situation at Texas Goodwill store

A Goodwill worker collecting clothes and other items at a Texas sorting center was surprised to find an albino python clinging to the side of a bin.

The Buzz | At least 14 killed in china highway pile-up

Authorities in China say at least 14 people have been killed and 27 injured in a highway pile-up. The accident Saturday night happened after a heavy truck lost

Obituary | Raymond Chow, film producer behind Bruce Lee, dies at age 91

Legendary Hong Kong film producer Raymond Chow, who introduced the world to Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan and even brought the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the

World Briefs

  PHILIPPINES An Australian nun who angered the Philippine president by joining anti-government protests used her final hours in the country to call on Filipinos to unite and fight human

56,800 dead and missing: The hidden toll of migration

As migration rises worldwide, so has its toll: The tens of thousands of people who die or simply disappear during their journeys. Barely counted in life,

Germany | Health minister sets out pitch for Merkel succession

Germany’s health minister said yesterday the country’s main center-right party needs to make clearer what it stands for as he competes to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel as

This Day in History | 1995 Ex-minister charged with apartheid murders

General Malan was arrested today with 10 other former senior military officers. They were charged with murdering 13 black people in 1987 as part of a conspiracy to

Offbeat | Halloween Times! Men arrested in pumpkin smashing crime spree

Police in the southern Oregon town of Grants Pass have arrested two men suspected in a pumpkin-powered crime spree, ending weeks of incidents of smashed gourds and

World Briefs

INDONESIA Divers in Indonesia recovered one of the crashed Lion Air jet’s flight recorders from the seafloor yesterday, a crucial development in the investigation into what caused

The Buzz | Bus recovered 4 days after deadly plunge off Chinese bridge

Official Chinese media say rescuers have salvaged the wreckage of a bus that plunged off a bridge into the Yangtze River four days earlier and have recovered nine

Brazil | Carwash judge to be Bolsonaro’s justice minister

The lead judge in Brazil’s sprawling four-year corruption investigation known as Operation Carwash is to become justice minister with expanded powers in the government of President- elect

USA | High hopes & hype for experimental depression drug ketamine

It was launched decades ago as an anesthetic for animals and people, became a potent battlefield pain reliever in Vietnam and morphed into the trippy club drug

Heritage | 1 of 3 Great Pyramids of Giza to reopen after restoration

Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry says the second of Egypt’s three famed pyramids of Giza will open to tourists this week after the completion of restoration work that lasted

Syria | Group documents Russian attacks on civilians

A Syrian-led human rights group said yesterday it has documented more than 1,400 incidents in which Russian forces indiscriminately targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure in the three years

This Day in History | 1990 Howe resigns over Europe policy

He informed the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of his decision at around 1800 on Thursday. Sir Geoffrey said the reasons for his resignation were the

Offbeat | People find severed head in Oakland yard, take it to police

Police investigators were trying to determine whether a decaying human head found this week in an Oakland backyard belongs to a recently discovered headless corpse. People visiting

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