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In Agia Paraskevi, one of the villages dotted around Mount Panitha, just 15 miles north of Greece's capital, Athens, we found a familiar sight: a woman standing in front of a burned house, its black, skeletal roof beams reaching imploringly into the smoldering sky as if begging for mercy. Tears streamed down her face as she contemplated what she lost. She cried softly in almost resigned despair. Greece is once again in the grip of wildfires, and this year they are worse than ever.

North Korea says it will allow its citizens staying abroad to return home in line with easing pandemic situations worldwide

Ukraine has lost three military pilots, including a “mega talent” who wished to fly F-16s, after two L-39 combat training aircraft collided west of Kyiv, the air force said. The three men included Andriy Pilshchykov – callsign Juice – “a Ukrainian officer, one of those who greatly helped our state”, said Volodymyr Zelensky. Pilshchykov has been hailed as a “mega talent” and leader of reforms by Air force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat. This comes as an old interview of Russian Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin wherein he said he would rather be killed than lie to his country, and talked about a plane disintegrating in the sky has sparked a flood of online theorising about his presumed death. “Today we have reached the boiling point,” he said in the 40-second clip published on Grey Zone, Wagner’s Telegram channel. “Why am I speaking so honestly? Because I don’t have the right, before those people who will live on in this country. They are now being lied to. Better kill me.” The clip has been taken from an interview originally published on 29 April with a Russian military blogger. Read More What we know — and don't know — about the crash of a Russian mercenary's plane Putin says Wagner chief had ‘complicated fate’ – as officials suggest explosion on plane caused fatal crash While world media speculates on Wagner chief's presumed death, Russian state media shies away Wagner has been decapitated – the mercenaries should fear the future

An aircraft 'incident' involving US defense personnel has taken place near the city of Darwin, Australia, officials have confirmed.

Dolphins wide receiver Daewood Davis was stretchered off the field and the game between Miami and the Jacksonville Jaguars was suspended in the fourth quarter.

BEIJING Profits at China's industrial firms fell 6.7% in July from a year earlier, extending this year's slump

Richard Beale has pleaded guilty over the sales of the $4m Eid Mar and parts of the "Gaza Hoard".

Zimbabwe's incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared the winner in the country's presidential elections on Saturday after securing an absolute majority in a tense presidential contest that was marred by delays.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish have the quarterback they've been searching for for years in Sam Hartman, who helped lead the team to a dominant win over the Navy Midshipmen.

Fires in western Canada have burned homes and ripped up trees, laying them down "like toothpicks".

Two men and a woman were killed by a gunman who then shot himself, in a "hate-filled" attack, officials say.

Casings and coins at a site in central France suggest prisoners were shot by the French Resistance after D-Day.