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July 18, (THEWILL) - Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist, Danish Siddiqui, has been killed in Afghanistan, said the country’s ambassador in Delhi. The 41-year-old, who was chief photographer for Reuters news agency in India, was on assignment when he died. He was...

July 18, (THEWILL) - At least 120 people have died and hundreds more in western Europe are unaccounted for after some of the worst flooding in decades. Record rainfall caused rivers to burst their banks, devastating the region. In Germany,...

July 06, (THEWILL) - US model, Kara Wrice, who hails from Missouri, is dead after she drowned at a state park. The 16-year-old Wrice died on Friday in the Meramec River in Castlewood State Park, according to the St. Louis...

July 06, (THEWILL) - Contact has been lost with a passenger plane carrying 28 people in Russia’s remote Far Eastern peninsula of Kamchatka, local officials said Tuesday. The An-26 was flying from Kamchatka’s main city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the coastal...

July 04, (THEWILL) - Hong Kong's National Security police on Sunday warned residents against mourning a man who killed himself after stabbing a policeman. Describing the attacker as politically “radicalised”, the Force said encouraging such memorials was the same as...

July 04, (THEWILL) - The Word Health organisation has alerted European countries that they may likely see another explosive wave of COVID cases due to ongoing Euro 2020 tournament, with Friday’s quarter finals, with huge turnouts expected. The global...

July 04, (THEWILL) - Violent confrontations broke out following Friday midday prayers between Israeli police and residents, with a number of Palestinians wounded and arrested. Israeli forces fired stun grenades, rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas canisters at Palestinian demonstrators...

July 04, (THEWILL) - A first team of six guards from the European Union’s border agency, Frontex, began working in Lithuania on Friday, as the Baltic state reported another sharp rise in migrants and refugees arriving from Belarus amid...

July 04, (THEWILL) - The last US and NATO forces have left Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase, the centre of the war against militants for some 20 years, US officials say. The pull-out could signal that the complete withdrawal of foreign...

July 02, (THEWILL) - The World Health Organisation said Friday that COVID-19 tests should be carried out in schools (even when no cases have been detected) to avoid the “harmful” effects of remote learning. Screenings in schools had previously only...