Strikes
The bodies arrived through the night at the morgue of a hospital in Deir al-Balah in the centre of the Gaza Strip. By Monday morning, hospital director Iyad al-Jabri had counted 58 dead, saying "dozens of women and children" may still be..
Seventeen people - five children - have been killed in an air strike in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, officials say. Twenty-five homes were destroyed in Saturday's strike in the densely populated Yarmouk district. It came a day after a top..
A tap-in by Karim Benzema and a powerful strike by substitute Marco Asensio earned European champions Real Madrid a 2-0 win over 10-man Chelsea in their Champions League quarter-final, first leg in the Spanish capital on Wednesday. Benzema, the sc..
An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck a mountainous area in the west of China's Sichuan province after midday on Monday, the China Earthquake Networks Centre said. The epicentre was located at the town of Luding at a depth of 16 kilometers, th..
Neymar's penalty 13 minutes from time earned Brazil a 1-0 win over fellow World Cup qualifiers Japan at Tokyo's National Stadium on Monday as the Paris St Germain striker moved to within three goals of Pele's all-time national scoring rec..
An earthquake of magnitude 5 struck Kuwait, the ministry of information tweeted on Saturday. The ministry said "the Kuwait National Seismic Network recorded an earthquake measuring 5 ... southwest of al-Ahmadi, and it occurred at exactly 04:2..
Ukrainian forces announced on Thursday that Russian aircraft struck Novhorod-Siversky town in Chernihiv region, northern Ukraine. "Last night, Muscovite bastards launched several airstrikes on critical infrastructure facilities of Novhorod-Si..
Firefighters battled blazes in Odesa until early hours on Tuesday after Russian missiles pounded the Ukrainian port on the day President Vladimir Putin led celebrations in Moscow marking Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. In a defi..
One person was killed and several wounded in missile strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Saturday morning, Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said in televised comments. Klitschko added that medics were fighting for the lives of those who ha..