A fire that killed at least 79 people at a London tower block started in a Hotpoint fridge freezer, and the outside cladding engulfed by the blaze has since been shown to fail all safety tests, London police said on Friday. Detective Superintendent Fiona McCormack said that in view of the...

Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi is urging the West to change course in the Middle East in order to save the historic atomic deal, saying "the moment of truth has arrived". The accord, reached between Tehran and world powers in Vienna in July 2015, saw Iran drastically curb its nuclear...

A Syrian man accused of seeking 180,000 euros ($200,000) from someone he thought was a member of ISIS to finance attacks in Europe has gone on trial in Germany. News agency dpa reported that the 38-year-old's trial opened Friday at the state court in Saarbruecken. He is charged with...

A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen could infect more than 300,000 people by the end of August, up from nearly 193,000 cases today, the United Nations said Friday. "Probably at the end of August we will reach 300,000" cases, UN children's agency spokeswoman Meritxell Relano told...