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At least 53 people have died in a fire that tore through a shopping and entertainment complex in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo.

An explosion at a chemical factory in the Czech Republic has claimed the lives of six people and injured several others, Thursday.

The majority of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by militants from the town of Dapchi last month have been returned, the government says.

There is an ongoing cyberattack on Russia’s Central Election Commission, targeting its information center, the body’s secretary has said. The commission’s website earlier came under a DDoS attack from 15 countries.

Russians are voting in an election that is likely to return Vladimir Putin for a fourth term as president.

South Africa's former President, Jacob Zuma, is to face prosecution for 18 charges of corruption, the director of public prosecutions has confirmed.

At least four people have been killed and 10 others hurt after a footbridge collapsed near Florida International University in Miami, officials say.

World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.

US President Donald Trump has sacked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, replacing him with the director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo.

UN investigators have accused Facebook of playing a "determining role" in stirring up hatred against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

Oprah Winfrey says she's "not running for office" in 2020, but she's got some advice for anyone who does.

A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew has crashed on landing at Nepal's Kathmandu airport, killing at least 40 people. At least 22 survived.

Nigerian Judge, Chile Eboe-Osuji has been elected as President of the Court for a three-year term with immediate effect after judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), sitting in a plenary session.