At least 29 people have been killed and one injured in a fire in a nightclub in Turkey. The Masquerade club, in the basement of a high-rise building in Istanbul, was closed and being renovated during the day. The fire broke out just after midday, Istanbul governor Davut Gül

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a call on Tuesday in an effort to keep tensions between the two countries at a simmer. They discussed avenues of co-operation, including recent shared efforts to combat climate change and narcotics, according to summaries of

A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off Taiwan's east coast on Wednesday, the strongest tremor to hit the island in 25 years. The earthquake caused multiple buildings to collapse in Hualien, the city closest to the epicentre, where rescue efforts are taking place. The

A fire killed 25 and wounded three others in an Istanbul residential building Tuesday, the city governor's office said, updating an earlier toll of 15 dead and eight hurt. "Although the fire was put out thanks to the firefighters' response, 25 people lost their lives in

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted a wide area of northeastern Japan early Tuesday, the weather agency said, with no tsunami warning issued, but there were reports of minor injuries. The 4:24 a.m. quake registered lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of

Former US President Donald Trump has posted a $175m (£140m) bond in his New York civil fraud case, staving off asset seizures by the state. Mr Trump was originally ordered to pay the full $464m judgement against him, but an appeals court said he could pay the smaller sum within

Iran's Revolutionary Guards say seven officers have been killed in an Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate building in Syria's capital, Damascus. Brig-Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the elite Quds Force, and Brig-Gen Mohammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi, his deputy,

Aid workers including an Australian and two people said to be British and Polish have been killed in Gaza, in what their charity founder said was an Israeli attack. World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder and chef José Andrés said his staff had been killed "in an IDF air

Charred buildings and a rubble strewn expanse littered with bodies were all that was left of the Al-Shifa hospital complex on Monday, after Israeli forces ended a two-week offensive at what used to be Gaza’s largest medical facility. The health ministry in Gaza said that after

More than 5,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel this year, with nearly 800 making the journey over the Easter bank holiday weekend. A total of 791 migrants made the journey on 30 and 31 March, according to the Home Office. The government's figures indicate that 349

The bodies of eight Chinese nationals have been found on a beach in the Mexican state of Oaxaca after their boat capsized, officials say. The bodies were found on Friday along a route used by illegal migrants trying to reach the United States. The seven women and a man were on board

Israel's military says it has pulled out of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City two weeks after it was raided. According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), troops "killed terrorists" and found "numerous weapons and intelligence documents" in the area. The raid

At least "eight people were killed and 23 others wounded" when "a car bomb exploded in the middle of a popular market" in Aleppo province's Azaz said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Britain-based Observatory, which has a network of sources inside

The United Kingdom’s Labour party reported a loss of membership by 23,000 over its Gaza policy and environmental messaging, new figures revealed. Official figures showed that memberships fell from 390,000 in January to 366,604 last week, though the party is leading in opinion

When roughly 63 million eligible voters go to the polls to elect mayors in 81 Turkish cities and municipalities on March 31, it will be a historic local election for one person in particular: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has spoken of his "last election" before handing

More than a decade after joining the European Union, Romania and Bulgaria joined — at least partially — the rest of the bloc's members in the visa-free Schengen zone on Sunday. Travelers are now able to move between the two Eastern European countries and the rest of the

Malaysian authorities were on high alert on Saturday after the arrest of an Israeli national who was apprehended with several handguns and rounds of ammunition at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia has long shown support for Palestinian statehood and its leaders have been fiercely

One thousand miles east of Gaza, large blocks of aid are being loaded on to a US military transport plane, its crew silhouetted by the morning sun glancing over the desert landscape around Qatar's al-Udeid airbase. They push 80 crates into the plane's cavernous interior, each

At least 42 people have been killed in air strikes in north-west Syria, reports say. Syria's defence ministry said Israeli planes targeted several sites in the Aleppo countryside at 01:45 on Friday (22:45 GMT Thursday). A UK-based monitoring group said Hezbollah militants and

Donald Trump's attorneys pushed two legal challenges before Easter weekend. His camp is appealing against a verdict from a Georgia judge allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to stay on an election subversion case. They also aim to stop the expansion of a gag