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Pointing to a grubby, grey sofa in the corner of a small room in her neighbour's house, the Ukrainian mother said that was where a teenage Russian soldier raped her.

A retired British geologist who faces the death penalty over accusations he tried to smuggle artefacts out of Iraq has told a court he had no idea he was breaking the law.

A Greek helicopter pilot who tried to claim his British wife was killed by armed robbers at their Athens home has been convicted of her murder.

A convicted murderer in Israel is set to become a millionaire through his tech company, which is expected to go public on the Tel Aviv stock exchange.

A gunman who killed one worshipper and wounded five others at a church in California was stopped after a pastor hit him over the head with a chair and members of the congregation tied him up.

North Korea has brought in the military to stabilise its distribution of coronavirus medicine as the country battles its "first" outbreak.

Monkeypox is very difficult to catch from someone carrying the infection and is mostly caught from infected wild animals in west of central Africa.

Sri Lanka only has enough petrol stocks to last a single day, with the possibility of power outages lasting up to 15 hours a day, the country's new prime minister has warned.

Ukraine can win the war against Russia, NATO's secretary general has said, insisting that Russia's invasion is "not going as Moscow had planned".

McDonald's will sell all of its restaurants in Russia, making it one of the biggest global brands to exit the country after its invasion of Ukraine.