Sri Lanka’s efforts ‌to reduce prison overcrowding by reopening a colonial jail and recruiting more staff after a deadly riot left 28 people dead need to be underpinned by a commitment to international best practice, human rights advocates said.

At least 11 people died attempting to flee a wildfire in southern Spain.

Greenlanders attending a traditional kayaking championship in Nuuk rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed ​call for U.S. control of the Arctic island on Wednesday, saying ‌its future should be decided by Greenlanders themselves.

Seated in his office alongside sketches of elegant dresses, fashion designer Efrain Mogollon starts the workday in Venezuela like any other.

Russia introduced a ban on diesel exports on Wednesday as part of a raft of ​measures to support the domestic fuel market after systematic Ukrainian drone attacks on oil refineries triggered gasoline shortages and ‌price spikes.

There were growing calls on Wednesday for an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of a man in Houston by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, the latest in a string of deadly ​encounters involving American immigration officers.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was leaving Turkey aboard an older ‌Air Force One aircraft rather than a recently renovated Qatari-donated jet, an unexpected switch that renewed scrutiny of the costly, fast-tracked retrofit.

Sudan’s RSF forces carried out mass killings, abductions ‌of women and girls, mass gang rapes and forced starvation in a city they besieged and captured last year, as part of an intentional policy amounting to genocide, a U.N. probe said on Wednesday.

The U.S. military said on Wednesday that it was ‌launching fresh strikes on Iran aimed at keeping the critical Strait of Hormuz open to traffic, hours after President Donald Trump declared that an interim agreement to end the war with Iran was “over.”

Australia wants the Pacific region to band together and send China a “strong message” following its missile launch into the region.

At the La Esperanza cemetery in western Venezuela, local volunteers have been digging graves ​for victims of the country’s devastating twin earthquakes last month, unloading coffins and helping families search for loved ones.

NATO’s European leaders aim to convince Donald Trump on Wednesday to re-commit to the military ​alliance at a summit in Ankara after the U.S. president revived his disputes with them over the Iran war and Greenland.