KABUL, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - At least 25 people were killed and 27 injuredwhen a bus overturned in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, authorities toldAFP, a week after the country's deadliest road accident in years. The crash happened "due to the driver's negligence" on a highway near thecapital Kabul leading to the southern city of Kandahar, interior ministryspokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said. Qani said 25 people were killed and 27 were being treated at hospitals forinjuries, the extent of which was not specified. Deadly traffic crashes are common in Afghanistan, due in part to poor roadsafter decades of conflict, dangerous driving on highways and a lack ofregulation. Last Tuesday, 78 people, including more than a dozen children, were...
DAMASCUS, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - An Israeli attack killed three soldiers near the capital Damascus, a Syrian official said Tuesday, though an external war...
MRAUK U, Myanmar, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-held town in the country's hunger-ravaged west killed at least...
COPENHAGEN, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksenon Wednesday apologised to more than 4,500 Greenlandic victims of a forcedcontraception campaign run by...
EL KHIAM, Lebanon, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Lebanese state media said US envoy Tom Barrack cut short a visit to the south on Wednesday...
BERLIN, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The German cabinet on Wednesday signed off steps to boost recruitment for the country's armed forces and strengthen military...
VENICE, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Protesters against Israel's invasion of Gaza held a banner saying "Free Palestine" and "Stop the Genocide" outside the Venice...
MOSCOW, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The Kremlin on Wednesday said it was against European countries sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine and pushed back against...
BEIJING, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - China said Wednesday that it would not participate in denuclearisation talks with the United States and Russia, after President...
DAMASCUS, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Israeli drone strikes killed six Syrian soldiers outside Damascus, state television reported Wednesday, updating the toll for attacks the...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Russian strikes across Ukraine on Wednesday killed three people and left thousands more than 100,000 households without power,...
BELGRADE, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Serbia's largest oil producer was given another 30-day reprieve from sanctions by the United States, the sixth deferral for...
CHISINAU, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The leaders of France, Germany and Poland are due in Moldova on Wednesday in a show of support, a...