Senior Taliban leader Amir Khan Muttaqi is reported to have arrived in Kabul to negotiate with the country's political leadership, including former President Hamid Karzai.

Hundreds of firefighters have been deployed to tackle the blaze which has now burnt through 5,000 hectares.

Macron warned in a televised address on Monday that "the destabilisation of Afghanistan also risks leading to irregular migratory flows towards Europe".

Injured earthquake victims continued to stream into Les Cayes’ overwhelmed general hospital, three days after the earthquake struck.

In a defiant address the US President defended the US troops pullout despite the Taliban's takeover, saying that keeping a US presence in Afghanistan was no longer a US national security interest.

Judges stated that scholarly research should not be judged by the courts and overturned the ruling against the book's co-authors.

Stsiapan Latypau was reportedly given an eight-a-and-half-year sentence after his trial resumed on Monday.

Rescuers are searching for a number of missing people after a sudden flood reportedly swept away a bridge into a river in Bavaria's Valley of Hell.

A look at Afghanistan's tumultuous history.

Miles Routledge has been branded a 'disaster tourist' online for flying into Kabul last Friday, just days before the Taliban captured the city.

Misleading rumours falsely suggested that France's Ambassador to Afghanistan had left Kabul, but he had instead moved the embassy's operations to the airport.

A former Bosnian Serb soldier and police officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for war crimes committed during the 1995-95 conflict.

Hundreds of people could be seen running alongside a U.S. Air Force transport plane before takeoff, in a widely shared video that captured the sense of desperation.

Spain’s interior minister has defended sending unaccompanied child migrants back to Morocco and denied accusations by rights groups that the returns breach international law.

The question comes as the Taliban completed a rapid takeover of the country.

On Monday the head of Angela Merkel's conservative party and possible successor to the German chancellor called the pullout NATO's "biggest debacle" since its creation.

"We lost everything we achieved in these 20 years in a blink of an eye," a female journalist in Kabul told Euronews.

Critics of Joe Biden say his decision to withdraw has undone two decades of work in the country and jeopardised the safety of the Afghan people.

Little is known about the leadership of the militant group but here's a look at the four men at the top.

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Haiti on Saturday, with the epicenter 12 kilometres northeast of Saint-Louis du Sud, the US Geological Survey said.

The death toll from severe floods and mudslides in coastal Turkey has climbed to at least 72, the country's emergency and disaster agency said on Monday.

The US President speaks out following Monday's scenes of panic at Kabul airport as thousands of desperate Afghans tried to secure a place on a flight out of the country.

Trudeau is hoping to capitalise on his government's successful vaccination campaign against COVID-19 to win a majority of seats in Parliament.

The call from the more than 70 countries came hours after Talian insurgents stormed capital Kabul.

The killing of an Afghan comic by Taliban militants this week has raised fears of revenge killings, as the Taliban take control of the country.

On Saturday, hundreds of Tihany residents demonstrated against redevelopment plans around the lake shore.

Gerd Muller, who took Bayern Munich and the West Germany national team to the top of the footballing world in the 1970s, has died aged 75.

A warehouse where fuel was illegally stored exploded in northern Lebanon on Sunday morning, killing at least 28 people and burning dozens.

Both countries have withdrawn their ambassadors after Israel protested over a new law in Poland that restricts the rights of Holocaust survivors or their descendants to reclaim property seized by the country’s former communist regime.

Afghanistan's president Ashraf Ghani has fled the country, as Taliban fighters entered Kabul on Sunday and sought the unconditional surrender of the central government.

Taliban fighters are entering Kabul from all sides says Interior Ministry

Venezuela's government and opposition discuss ending sanctions and holding elections in a bid to end a crippling political and economic crisis.

President Obrador wants Spain to apologise for the conquest that caused the near-extermination of its indigenous peoples but Spain has refused.

A firefighting plane that was rented from Russia crashed on Saturday in a mountainous area in southern Turkey, state media reported.

British street artist Banksy confirmed via a video on his Instagram account on Friday that he was indeed the author of several works that recently appeared in England.

Around 21,000 federal firefighters - more than double the number of firefighters sent to contain forest fires at this time a year ago - are at work.

Britain’s police watchdog says it has launched an investigation into why a 22-year-old man who fatally shot five people in southwest England on Thursday was given back his confiscated gun and gun license last month.

The spread of the coronavirus Delta variant has forced China and Israel to ramp up vaccinations and Australia's state of New South Wales to go into lockdown.

The Milan-born medic's humanitarian agency has treated more than 11 million people in 19 war-torn countries since it was founded in 1994.

The Russian foreign ministry said the move came in retaliation to Britain's "persecution of Russian journalists".

A country-by-country look at how Europe has reacted to the crisis in Afghanistan.

The proportion of white people went from just over 63% in 2010 to just under 58%, the lowest on record.

Dozens of fake accounts are using Snapchat to sell "fake health passes" for up to €300 each.

Officials started counting the results in Zambia after polling stations closed on Thursday as voters waited in long lines to cast their ballots.

Russian authorities have expanded a state of emergency in northeast Siberia to bring in outside resources to combat wildfires.

A Danish court has convicted former MEP Morten Messerschmidt of fraud and forgery, after wrongly receiving nearly 100,000 Danish kroner during his term as MEP in 2015.

Poland's draft bill has been criticised by Brussels and Washington for threatening media freedom.

The western Austrian town of Imst is reportedly planning to remove a memorial to three soldiers who were members of the Waffen SS during World War II.

Many people are ignoring government pleas to avoid travel and stay away from bars and restaurants even as the coronavirus spikes at record levels.

Authorities believe the blast on Thursday evening in Voronezh is not terror-related.