KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials have reported a powerful explosion in central Kyiv, between the Southern Railway station and the Ibis hotel, an area near Ukraine’s Defense Ministry. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office told The Associated Press on Wednesday night that it...

Three Syrian young men were drowned in the Rhine river when car capsized in western Germany last Monday evening, according to the augsburger-allgemeine news site. Activists reported that five Syrian youths, whose names were not known, were riding in a car near the town of Wesel when their...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia renewed its aerial assault Wednesday on Ukraine’s second-largest city in a pounding that lit up the skyline with balls of fire over populated areas, even as both sides said they were ready to resume talks aimed at stopping the fighting. Seven days into...

A night-time fire in a shopping centre in the Syrian capital Damascus has killed at least 11 people, the interior ministry said, in one of the deadliest blazes in recent years. Many of those killed on Tuesday were security guards or staff who were on duty overnight in the six-storey...