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Jerusalem authorities restricted access to one of Judaism’s holiest sites on Monday after a massive stone block from the Western Wall fell to the ground below, narrowly missing a worshipper. Mayor Nir Barkat said in a statement "the stone, weighing 100 kilograms (220 pounds), fell close to a woman who was praying… without hitting her". […]

It was late afternoon on a humid Saturday in June and Prayuth Jetiyanukorn, the abbot at a temple in Mae Sai, northern Thailand, was angry.  His concierge, Ekapol Chanthawong, had not returned to finish his shift after his regular coaching session with the ‘Wild Boars’ children’s football team. But as night fell, the abbot’s anger […]

White Helmets rescuers who were unable to escape Syria have told of their fear of reprisals from the regime after their colleagues were evacuated by its bitter enemy Israel. Some 100 civil defence workers and 300 members of their families were evacuated out of southern Syria over the weekend, in a complex international mission that […]

A newly opened shopping mall on Mexico City’s south side partly collapsed Thursday after structural problems led the mall’s operators to quickly evacuate the area. Miraculously, no injuries were reported. Officials said a support beam failed in a cantilevered office area on the top floors that stuck out from the main mall building. Restaurant worker Juan Ramon […]

North Korea has started to dismantle a key missile test site, in a sign that the country is prepared to obey a commitment it made to the US. The 38 North website, which monitors the country, said recent satellite images indicate the rogue state began dismantling key facilities at its Sohae Satellite Launching Station in the past two weeks. […]

Italy’s treatment of a group of asylum seekers rescued in the Mediterranean exposed simmering tensions within the country’s populist government on Friday. The 67 migrants were plucked from the sea earlier this week by an Italian-flagged merchant ship, then transferred to a coast guard patrol vessel and disembarked in the port of Trapani, Sicily, late […]

Turkey’s two-year state of emergency imposed after a failed coup is due to expire on Wednesday night, but critics of the government say new powers obtained by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan make the move "cosmetic". The state of emergency, which allowed the president to rule by decree, was called on July 20, 2016 after a […]

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that talks on Sunday between US and North Korean officials to discuss the return of remains of US service members killed in the 1950-53 Korean War "resulted in firm commitments." It was the first time in nine years that US and North Korean generals held talks. The two […]

The German interior minister is facing calls to resign following the suicide of a migrant he joked about. Horst Seehofer threatened to bring down Angela Merkel’s government in a major rift over migrant policy earlier this month. But now he is facing a crisis of his own after a remarkably ill-judged joke at the expense […]

A six-year-old girl who was recorded crying in a detention centre after being separated from her mother at the US-Mexico border has been reunited with her. The mother, Cindy Madrid, who had fled from El Salvador, was reunited with her daughter Alisson at Houston airport after weeks apart. Last month Alisson was heard on a tape published […]