At least eight people died during a failed attempt to cross the English Channel from northern France, French maritime authorities said Sunday. The tragedy occurred Saturday just before midnight when authorities spotted a boat, carrying dozens, in distress near a beach in the northern town of Ambleteuse. A French rescue…
Germany has begun new controls at all of its land borders as part of a crackdown on migration, placing…
Shanghai was brought to a standstill on Monday morning by what authorities say was the strongest typhoon to directly…
An environmental activist who protested mining and hydro-electric projects in northern Honduras in an effort to preserve tropical forests and rivers…
Michaela Mabinty DePrince, the ballerina born during a civil war in Sierra Leone who performed in Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ visual…
Hundreds of people, mostly women, gathered in cities around France on Saturday in support of Gisèle Pélicot, a woman whose husband…
A Russian counteroffensive to recover parts of Kursk lost to Ukrainian forces following a surprise, cross-border attack is underway but is…
At least two people have been killed and 29 injured in a train collision in Egypt, the country’s health…
At least four people have died, thousands of homes have been damaged and hundreds have been evacuated after some…