Crews rescued 172 people and recovered the body of a passenger from a ferry that caught fire in rough seas Wednesday near the Indonesian tourist island of Bali, authorities said. The fire started at about 4:15 a.

The death toll after an overloaded ferry capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe has risen to 44, police said Wednesday. Police said on X that the bodies had been retrieved from the lake that forms part of the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham will hold an emergency government meeting on the UK’s latest heat wave as the country grapples with widespread drought and proliferating wildfires.

South Africa is asking several other African governments to reimburse it for the cost of sending tens of thousands of their citizens back home. The request comes after South Africa deported or helped repatriate more than 80,

Erblin Ademi watched from afar as workers excavated recently discovered mass graves from the 1998-99 war in Kosovo. Nearly 30 years after his father went missing, Ademi both feared and wished that his remains will finally be found.

India’s aviation ministry is awaiting drug test results for the captain of an Air India flight that dropped 300 feet midair last week, injuring 24 people. The Airbus A320 incident occurred

North Korea on Wednesday performed its second ballistic missile test in less than a week, its neighbors said, a likely protest of the upcoming military drills with South Korea and the U.S.

Longing to be reunited with her son, Ayten Elhaman was glued to ​the television all day as Turkey’s parliament debated and passed a law this week enabling Kurdish militants to return home under a peace process to end ‌their decades-old insurgency.