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Firefighters battled a blaze at a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong for the second day on Thursday, as the death toll rose to 65 in one of the deadliest blazes in the city's modern history.

While the cause of the deadly inferno that swept across a Hong Kong apartment complex remains unknown, questions have been raised about the role of the bamboo scaffolding that enveloped the buildings at the time of the fire.

Pope Leo XIV arrived in Turkey on Thursday on his first foreign trip, fulfilling Pope Francis' plans to mark an important Christian anniversary and bring a message of peace to the region at a crucial time in efforts to end the war in Ukraine and ease ...

President Emmanuel Macron announced thousands of volunteers aged 18 and 19 will start serving in the military next year as he unveiled a new program meant to bolster France's armed forces to address growing concerns over Russia's threat to European ...

President Trump said South Africa will not be receiving an invitation to the 2026 Group of 20 Summit held in Miami because of its treatment of a U.S. representative at this year's summit.

Thousands took to the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria's capital, on Wednesday to denounce steep tax hikes in next year's draft budget before its final vote in parliament.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Wednesday new supports for the steel and lumber industries hit hard by U.S. tariffs.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year at his Miami-area club and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country over its treatment of a U.S. government ...

Hong Kong's deadliest fire in years blazed through high-rise apartment buildings into the night Wednesday as the city's leader confirmed at least 36 people, including a firefighter, had died and another 279 people were reported missing.

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly.