United States House Democrats are bringing the impeachment focus back to Russia as they draft formal charges against President Donald Trump. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is connecting the dots — “all roads lead to Putin,” she says — and making the argument that Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine was not an isolated incident but part of […]

At least seven people died and dozens were injured in a gas explosion that rocked a 12-storey building in eastern Slovakia, police said on Saturday. Local police chief Jan Golias said one person was still missing after the fire in the town of Presov, 400 kilometres (250 miles) from the capital Bratislava. About 100 firefighters […]

Some 2,800 firefighters have been battling more than 100 bushfires across the state of New South Wales (NSW) in eastern Australia as of Saturday. This includes a “mega fire” in the north-west of Sydney that has threatened homes. The state Rural Fire Service (RFS) said that the 60-kilometre fire front, known as the Gospers Mountain […]

A gang-rape victim who was set on fire in India by a group of men as she travelled to court to testify against her alleged attackers has died. The unnamed woman, 23, was set upon by a gang, including two of the five men she had accused of forcing themselves on her last year. They […]

The highest court in the U.S. blocked plans to bring back the death penalty on a federal level on Friday, days before a planned execution. The U.S. Supreme Court denied an urgent application from the government to allow cases to resume after a 16-year hiatus, which effectively halted the executions of four men due to […]