Category: 4. World

At least 14 have been killed, including two children, in a fierce hotel fire which broke out Tuesday evening in the central business district of Kolkata, a large city in India’s east.

Police said some 20 people were rescued from the roof of the…

Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter.

I’m RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I’m looking at how Iran is seeking to reassure China that, even with…

ATTARI, India (AP) — Pakistan said Wednesday it had “credible intelligence” that India is planning to attack it within days, as Pakistani nationals headed for the border to comply with New Delhi’s…

MADRID (AP) — The sweeping power outage that hit Spain and Portugal this week has raised questions about the electricity grid in a region not normally known for blackouts.

Monday’s outage, one of the…

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Swedish police have detained a 16-year-old suspected of shooting and killing three people in the city of Uppsala on Tuesday.

The individual is…

Swedish police have arrested a teenager after a fatal triple shooting in the city of Uppsala on Tuesday.

The shooter reportedly fled on a scooter following the attack in a hair salon in the centre of the city, triggering a manhunt.

Police confirmed…