ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The death toll from stampedes during two Christmas charity events in Nigeria has increased from 13 to 32, police said Sunday. The victims, including at least four children, collapsed during crowd surges as people grew desperate for food items while the country grapples with the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. [&he

Around 30 people have been killed in renewed Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reported on Sunday. Israeli fighter planes had attacked a former school building in the al-Daraj quarter in Gaza City, where displaced people were sheltering, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. At least eight people died in the attack, WAFA [&h

Spain’s world-famous “El Gordo” Christmas lottery organizers began broadcasting the draw from the Teatro Real opera house in Madrid on Sunday morning, with winnings totalling more than €2.7 billion ($2.8 billion) up for grabs. As per tradition, pupils from Madrid’s San Ildefonso boarding school started singing the first winn

Albania plans to ban access to the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok for one year, Prime Minister Edi Rama announced on Saturday. The platform, owned by the Beijing-based ByteDance company, is to be blocked in six to eight weeks after the necessary technical preparations have been made, he said in the capital Tirana. Rama said the […]

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has offered his condolences following the deadly attack on a Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg that left five people dead and 200 more injured. “Shocking images from Magdeburg, Germany last night,” Saar wrote on social media platform X on Saturday. “I condemn this devasta