Sudan’s fragile transitional government said it foiled an attempted coup early yesterday involving military officers and civilians linked to the ousted regime of longtime President Omar al-Bashir.

An Italian prisoner shot at fellow inmates through the bars of their cell with a weapon believed to have been smuggled in by drone, a prison union said yesterday.

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday asked “forgiveness” on behalf of his country for abandoning Algerians who fought alongside France in their country’s war of independence.

1939 - In Romania, Prime Minister Armand Calinescu was murdered by the fascist Iron Guard.

A gunman opened fire on a university campus in central Russia yesterday and killed six people before being detained, investigators said, in the country’s second mass shooting this year to target students.

Russia’s ruling United Russia party, which supports President Vladimir Putin, won an emphatic parliamentary majority after its most vociferous critics were prevented from contesting an election that opponents said was marred by large-scale fraud.

A volcano erupted on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma on Sunday, sending jets of lava and a plume of smoke and ash into the air from the Cumbre Vieja national park in the south of the island.

President Vladimir Putin’s party was set to retain a majority in parliament as Russia yesterday concluded a three-day election in

It became six months yesterday that the volcanic eruption currently mesmerising spectators near Reykjavik first began, making it the

Bookings for coronavirus vaccines in Italy spiked this week after the government said all employees must show proof of a jab, negative test or recent recovery from Covid-19, authorities said.

A French tightrope walker has crossed the Seine in Paris 70 metres up in a breathtaking feat watched by cheering crowds on the Eiffel Tower and along the riverbanks.

The will of Queen Elizabeth II’s late husband Prince Philip will remain sealed from the public for 90 years “to protect the dignity and standing” of the monarch, a High Court judge has ruled.

British officials have identified a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease.

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Russia’s elections commission said yesterday that it had recorded foreign interference in its ongoing three-day parliamentary elections.

France plunged into an unprecedented diplomatic crisis with the United States and Australia after it recalled its ambassadors from both countries over a trilateral security deal which sank a French-designed submarine contract with Canberra.

A newly discovered Vincent Van Gogh drawing that has been hidden in a private collection for more than a century went on display for the first time at an Amsterdam museum on Thursday.

1961 - Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish statesman and Secretary-General of the United Nations, was killed in a plane crash in what was then Northern Rhodesia.

A day after the US, UK and Australia unveiled a new trilateral defence pact for the Indo-Pacific region, the European Union has announced a new plan to step up its engagement with the region, which is increasing in strategic importance for Europe.

A former Kosovo rebel commander compared a war crimes court to Nazi Germany’s secret police as it began its first trial in The Hague yesterday.