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Housed in a detention centre in southern England, Aladeen says he risked his life to travel thousands of miles from his homeland of Syria to escape being forced to fight in the military of President Bashar al-Assad.

For ordinary Afghans -- especially women -- the return of the Taliban has only increased hardships.

Ukrainian forces reported heavy Russian shelling and attempts to advance on several towns in the eastern region of Donetsk that has become a key focus of the near six-month war, but said they had repelled many of the attacks.

Stood on her hind legs to greet any prospective owner who might approach her glass-doored kennel, Harriet is a black English cocker spaniel abandoned as a deepening cost-of-living crisis pushes growing numbers of Britons to part with their pets.

The Glorious Twelfth is widely celebrated in the U.K. as a show of freedom and one's taste for adventure.

Italy's conservative bloc will cut taxes, crack down on immigration and scrap the current system of welfare benefits if it wins next month's election as expected, the group said in a joint manifesto.

Irish house prices returned in June to levels not seen since the credit-fuelLed peak of 2007.

A five-year-old girl, Zoey, was allegedly kicked out of her school in Louisiana because her parents are a same-sex couple.

The former footballer is facing domestic violence charges from his ex-partner.

Around 200,000 households live in such flats, which make up around five percent of housing stock in the South Korean capital, according to official figures.

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for military activity around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power complex to end as Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for a renewed shelling and the U.N.

A British man accused of being part of an Islamic State (IS) kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles" appeared in court in London.

The oldest UFO sighting in the UK was recorded in 1742 during the reign of George II of Great Britain.

A half-blind Greenland shark, which is normally found in icy Arctic waters, was spotted swimming in the warm waters of the Caribbean.

The four members of the "Beatles" are accused of abducting at least 27 journalists and relief workers from the United States, Britain, Europe, New Zealand, Russia and Japan.

Fascism is history, Italy's far-right leader Giorgia Meloni declared Wednesday in a video message aimed at international critics.

An air and sea rescue operation was underway Wednesday after around 50 people went missing when a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea.

Authorities said it could take five to 10 days before the displaced residents could go home.

An NHS worker who was undergoing treatment for breast cancer won a £1m lottery jackpot shortly before getting an all-clear from doctors.

Pope Francis will install the first cardinal of Brazil's Amazon region this month in a sign of his concern for the rainforest and its indigenous inhabitants, the man whom he picked for the role said.

The lucky winner was traced to have bought their ticket in Wolverhampton, West Midlands.

A woman was brutally attacked during a night out in Birmingham after she allegedly refused the offer of a threesome with a man and a woman.

A 21-year-old woman who killed her partner by running him over has managed to avoid a prison sentence.

Portugal's border agency SEF has faced criticism for delays in issuing post-Brexit ID cards to thousands of British nationals in the country, putting the spotlight on a structural problem that has affected various other migrant communities for years.

An Indian man, who had gone to attend the last rites of his brother following the latter's death due to a snakebite, also died after being bitten by a snake.

A 30-year-old woman, Mandeep Kaur, who was abused by her husband brutally for eight years, allegedly died by suicide at her house in New York.

An elderly woman was found inside cardboard boxes on the side of a highway after being dumped by her family in Puebla, Mexico.

Ukraine said on Sunday that renewed Russian shelling had damaged three radiation sensors and hurt a worker at the Zaporizhzhia power plant, in the second hit in consecutive days on Europe's largest nuclear facility.

Archie was found unconscious at home in April with signs he had placed a cord around his neck, possibly after taking part in an online asphyxiation challenge.