EU lawmakers yesterday pushed for an independent probe into a migrant boat tragedy off Greece in which hundreds of people are believed to have died, calling an internal investigation by Athens inadequate.

This past June was the hottest June globally on record in terms of sea and air temperatures, according to a statement by the EU-backed Copernicus Climate Change Service.

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said yesterday up to 40 aid workers have been killed in Myanmar since the military coup that ousted democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is still in Russia, Belarus's president said today, despite a deal with the Kremlin for him to move to Belarus following his failed insurrection last month.."As far as Prigozhin is concerned, he is in Saint Petersburg... He is not in Belarus," Alexander Lukas

A missile attack on an apartment block in western Ukraine's Lviv killed four people today, in what its mayor said was the biggest attack on civilian infrastructure in the city since Russia's invasion of the country began

At least 29 people were killed in Mexico when a passenger bus careened off a mountain road and plummeted into a ravine Wednesday in the southern state of Oaxaca, the state prosecutor told AFP

At least 16 people, including children, have died after a gas leak at a South African slum near Johannesburg, emergency services said Thursday, revising the death toll after some people were resuscitated

Russia said yesterday that it has not taken a final decision about whether to extend the Ukraine grain deal which is due to expire on July 17.

Canada, Britain, Sweden and Ukraine have taken Iran to the International Court of Justice to seek damages for families of passengers on a jetliner downed by Tehran in 2020, the tribunal said yesterday.

Clashes between French police and rioters de-escalated again overnight, the government said yesterday, eight days after the killing of a teenager by police sparked the worst urban violence in years.

Israel’s army yesterday declared the end of a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank that killed 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier over the previous two days.

Many people in Latin America see migration as “the only option they have” after enduring successive crises of climate change, Covid and spiking food prices, the World Food Programme’s head for the region told AFP.

Global average temperature leaped to a record high for the second day in a row yesterday, according to preliminary readings by US meteorologists.

Iran is still meting out harsh punishments on people suspected of involvement in mass protests, including “chilling” executions, a United Nations fact-finding mission said yesterday.

Ten people were killed and 38 wounded in mass shootings in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Fort Worth ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, officials said, prompting a fresh call from President Joe Biden to pass gun control legislation

A woman missing for more than a week was found alive, having been stuck in the mud in a state park for at least several days, US police in Massachusetts said Tuesday

Six people, including two women, were found shot dead in Mexico's northeastern city of Monterrey, home to major international corporations as well as rival drug gangs, authorities said Tuesday

Pakistan has issued a presidential ordinance granting extra detention powers to the country’s anti-graft body, which is currently investigating a case involving former prime minister Imran Khan, media reported yesterday.

Mass shootings in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Fort Worth claimed the lives of 10 people ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, officials said, a grim illustration of the United States’ decades-long failure to curb gun-fueled violence.

Japan yesterday won approval from the UN’s nuclear watchdog for its plan to release treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima plant into the ocean, despite fierce resistance from Beijing and some local residents.