Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in central Baghdad in the early hours of Thursday morning, scaling its walls and setting it on fire in protest against the expected burning of a Koran in Sweden.

Schools and workplaces on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru will close and areas will be evacuated.

A fire that broke out at the military training grounds in the Kirovske district on the Crimean Peninsula.

At least two people and an armed attacker were killed and six others wounded in a shooting in New Zealand’s largest city of Auckland.

A street in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, has been cordoned off after reports of a shooting, local media reported on Thursday, with police saying they were responding to “a serious incident” and urging people to avoid the area.

Italy put 23 cities on red alert as it reckoned with another day of scorching temperatures on Wednesday, with no sign of relief from the wave of extreme heat, wildfires and flooding that has wreaked havoc from the United States to China.

A federal judge rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial.

The U.S. military was scrambling to determine the fate of an American soldier.

Russia launched a massive air attack on the Ukranian port of Odesa for a second night in row, which one Ukrainian official described as “hellish”, but authorities vowed not be intimidated and to continue work to export grains.

The U.S. military was scrambling to establish the fate of an American soldier who made an unauthorised crossing of the inter-Korean border into North Korea, throwing Washington into a new crisis in its dealing with the nuclear-armed state.

The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) continues to pledge its commitment to advocate for the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) to become a full member the of Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG).

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck off El Salvador’s Pacific coast at a depth of nearly 70 km (43 miles) on Tuesday evening, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, with reports indicating it was felt in several nations in Central America.