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Property developers may be in for a financial windfall after their skyscraper erupted into flames in Hong Kong. The 42-story Kimpton Hotel project — now ravaged by the disastrous fire — was expected to boast 500 rooms across 340,000 square feet of interior space. The luxury skyscraper was almost completely …

Israeli troops fired stun grenades and blocked hundreds of Israeli left-wing activists from staging a solidarity rally on Friday in a Palestinian town that was set ablaze by radical Jewish settlers earlier this week, protesters said. The soldiers shoved at least two protesters to the ground, activists said, pressing their …

Hundreds of tractors driven by angry farmers protesting a plan to cut nitrate levels converged on Brussels on Friday, creating major traffic disruption in Belgium’s capital city. The BB farmers union and several others combined efforts to gather more than 2,700 farm vehicles, according to Brussels police. Several major roads …

Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar’s former ranch – descendants of four imported from Africa illegally by the late drug lord in the 1980s – to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population. The hippos, which are territorial …

Authorities in Greece said Friday that all remains recovered so far from scene of this week’s rail disaster have been accounted for, with the death toll from the crash remaining at 57. The bodies of victims from Tuesday’s head-on train collision were being returned to families in closed caskets after …

A transportation minister has resigned and a station manager has been arrested in Greece following a head-on crash between a passenger and freight train that has left at least 57 dead, with officials fearing the death toll will rise.  The developments surrounding the collision in Tempe come as Greek Prime Minister …

A World Health Organization official in Africa is urging more support to countries facing cholera outbreaks, saying the disease has the potential to “quickly explode” as rainfall persists in some areas. Dr. Patrick Otim, a WHO official monitoring emergencies, said cholera outbreaks were potentially dangerous because of the short incubation …

German authorities have opened an investigation after an 81-year-old man allegedly fatally shot a 16-year-old boy over a noise complaint.  Reports say that Giuseppe Del B., an elderly Italian man, shot Sinan F. at around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday in front of an apartment building in which they lived. He then …

The U.K.’s top intelligence agency MI5 failed to respond to key information that could have thwarted the 2017 suicide attack at an Ariana Grande concert in northwest England that killed 22 people, an investigation found Thursday. The investigation, led by retired Judge John Saunders, found that one MI5 officer admitted …

Italian prosecutors have placed former prime minister Giuseppe Conte under investigation for allegedly mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in early 2020, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. The total of 19 suspects also includes former Health Minister Roberto Speranza, Lombardy region governor Attilio Fontana and …