Category: 2. World

The bombardment, which initial reports indicate occurred in several successive waves, directly follows a high-stakes challenge to the decade-and-a-half-long aerial blockade of Yemen.

While official details regarding infrastructure damage or…

Neill was born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, where his father was serving as an officer with the Royal Irish Fusiliers.

“I was born in Omagh, we lived in Armagh and my favourite place here was Tyrella beach, I sort of think that’s where I grew up,”…

A Sudanese court has sentenced the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo to death for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide over atrocities committed in the West Darfur region.

The court in Port…

Born Nigel John Dermot Neill in Omagh, Northern Ireland, in 1947, he moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, with his family as a child.

He adopted the name Sam at the age of 12 because there were several Nigels at his school.

He began acting while…

A court in Germany has convicted an Iraqi couple of enslaving two Yazidi girls in Iraq.

The Munich Higher Regional Court also found them guilty of membership of the Islamic State group (IS).

The man, named only as Twana H.S. in line with German…

A brother of Ecuador’s most notorious drug lord was killed on Sunday by gunmen who had disguised themselves as police officers.

Police said David Macías, 35, was a regional leader in Los Choneros, the powerful criminal gang which was until…

The battle by firefighters in France to bring under control a large wildfire raging in forests south of the country’s capital is entering its second day.

The Fontainebleau forest blaze, described by officials as “virulent” and of “exceptional…

The fire, which officials described as “very virulent” and of “exceptional scale,” began late afternoon in the sprawling Fontainebleau forest about 60 kilometers (40 miles) south-east of the capital, a onetime royal hunting preserve that…

At least 28 people have died and 25 are critically injured after a fire tore through a bar in a popular Bangkok district.

Footage shared on social media shows several people escaping as huge flames roar from the doorway behind them.

Preliminary…