Five people were killed in the Gaza Strip during an airdrop of food aid when a parachute failed to open properly, the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry said on Friday.
Last year, more people died on migration routes worldwide than ever since data collection began in 2014, the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Wednesday.
In the European Union's fight against air pollution, stricter limit and target values for various pollutants are to apply in the future.
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths has called on the foreign ministers of the G20 developed and emerging economies to work towards an end to the war in the Gaza Strip.
Leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has died in prison, state news agency TASS reported on Friday, citing the prison authorities.
The reactions to the top UN court’s ruling Friday in the Israel-Gaza case were split along the lines of the war raging in the Palestinian territory.
Germany is bracing for heavy snowfall and black ice on Wednesday - and for corresponding traffic problems.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the number of tobacco users worldwide has fallen by 19 million over the past two years. This is despite the fact that the world's population has grown, the WHO reported in Geneva on...