The government of the Brazilian state of São Paulo has declared a state of emergency in 45 municipalities due to severe fires in the south-east of the country. More than…
Prisoners in Russia’s south-western Volgograd region took prison staff hostage on Friday, Russian media reported. The hostage-taking took place during a meeting of the disciplinary committee, the prison administration said…
French President Emmanuel Macron will today, Friday, receive the main political forces in France in his first post-Olympic initiative to try to form a government following the recent elections. The…
At least 13 people have died in floods caused by heavy rains in eastern Bangladesh, according to the country’s Disaster Management and Relief Department. A total of 4.5 million people…
The Ras al-Ghadir border crossing between Tunisia and Libya has been completely paralysed in both directions since Thursday evening due to tensions between the government and popular groups demanding to…
The United Nations (UN) announced today that humanitarian aid has begun entering Sudan’s Darfur region through the Adra border crossing with Chad. Justin Brady, head of the UN Office for…
Switzerland has invited UN Security Council member states to a meeting in Geneva on 25 and 26 August to mark the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions. The aim of…
Venezuela’s opposition said in an open letter on Wednesday that it would consider any Supreme Court ruling validating President Nicolas Maduro’s re-election ‘null and void’. The National Electoral Council (CNE)…
Farouk Kaddoumi, a member of the Fatah Central Committee and former member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), died on Thursday at the age of 93.…
A fire has broken out on a merchant ship off the coast of Yemen’s western province of Hodeidah after ‘the third such attack in as many hours’, the UK Maritime…