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Ten people, including five children as young as 3, died after a nighttime fire ravaged an eight-story apartment building Friday in one of the French city of Lyon’s poorest suburbs, local authorities said. The cause of the blaze, France’s deadliest residential fire in years, was under investigation, including to establish …

Using Russian money to fund Ukraine Fox News’ Amy Kellogg interviews Bill Browder on how billions of dollars in frozen Russian money could be used to help fund Ukraine’s war effort. One way or another, realistically or not, there is a certain expectation that Russia will have to pay for …

Croatian lawmakers on Friday rejected a government bid for the country to help train Ukrainian soldiers as part of a European Union mission. The vote in parliament was held after Croatia’s president previously had refused to sign off on the proposal, saying it was not in accordance with the Constitution. …

The hillside of Rano Raraku volcano on Rapa Nui feels like a place that froze in time. Embedded in grass and volcanic rock, almost 400 moai – the monolithic human figures carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island’s Rapanui people — remained untouched until recently. Some are buried from …

One of Mexico’s best-known journalists said Friday that two gunmen on a motorcycle tried to kill him in a late-night attack on a Mexico City street. Radio and television reporter Ciro Gómez Leyva posted a description of the attack and photos of his bullet-ridden vehicle on social media. He said …

A Human Rights commission in Nigeria says it will investigate reports that the country’s military has run a secret abortion program that conducted tens of thousands of forced abortions on women suspected of having been impregnated by Boko Haram terrorists. Officials from the United Nations, the Nigerian government and other …

Four Turkish nationals have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling migrants after a boat with nearly 100 people on board was found in trouble off an island near Athens, Greek authorities said Friday. The coast guard said that the four had been among 97 people on board the boat found …

Kenneth DeLand, the upstate New York college student who has been missing in France since last month, was found to be alive in Spain nearly three weeks after he disappeared, an official confirmed Friday morning.  DeLand, a 21-year-old St. John Fisher University student, was studying abroad at the University Grenoble …

An Albanian court has convicted an Iranian man on terrorism-related charges and sentenced him to 10 years’ imprisonment, court officials said Thursday. In a ruling issued Wednesday but made public a day later, Albania’s Special Court on Corruption and Organized Crime found Bijan Pooladrag guilty of funding terrorism and being …

Explosions were reported in at least three Ukrainian cities Friday as authorities said Russia launched a “major missile attack” on energy facilities and infrastructure. Local authorities on social media app Telegram said air raid alarms sounded across the country as explosions were reported in the capital of Kyiv, southern Kryvyi …