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At least six people are dead as a result of protests in New Caledonia, after Paris approved a constitutional amendment that some fear will dilute the voting power of the Indigenous Kanak.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls on Iranians to pray after the helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi reportedly crashed near the country's northern border with Azerbaijan. 

A powerful armed ethnic group in Myanmar says it has won control over a town in the western state of Rakhine after weeks of fighting, denying accusations it has targeted members of the Muslim-minority Rohingya during the offensive.

The feline was honoured for his friendliness on campus ahead of student graduations. 

Nuclear ambitions, animosity with Israel and a hard line on women made Ebrahim Raisi a likely successor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

A man and a woman are dead after a river cruise boat allegedly collided with a small boat on a popular stretch of the Danube River in Hungary.

China could soon become the first country in the world with flying taxis as part of Beijing's plan to develop what it calls the "low-altitude economy".

A growing number of people are trying to leave China — some risking their lives at sea or in the jungle — as the country's political and economic future remains uncertain. 

Joe McDowell, an Australian man who was injured in a deadly shooting in central Afghanistan, is now in a stable condition in hospital.

The Israel Defense Forces says that troops have retrieved the body of hostage Ron Benjamin from the war-torn Gaza Strip after he was "murdered" during the October 7 Hamas attack.