Sydney News Board

Three years into its rule, the movement has codified its harsh Islamic decrees into law that now includes a ban on women’s voices in public.

Several ministers offered to resign in a major reshuffle of Ukraine’s government. While rescuers searched the rubble of a deadly strike on a military academy in eastern Ukraine, another Russian attack killed seven in the west.

Starting in the majority-Muslim nation, Francis is undertaking a multiday journey through Asia and Oceania.

A damning final report into Britain’s worst residential fire since World War II blamed a litany of cost-cutting, dishonest sales practices and lax regulation for the blaze that killed 72 people.

Repeated air-raid alerts have punctuated the search through the rubble in Poltava, in eastern Ukraine, after an attack that killed more than 50 people.

Some say they will reluctantly stomach a postwar Israeli military presence in the territory if that allows them to go home. Others worry about another long-term occupation.

More than 50 people were killed by two high-speed missiles that hit a military academy in the eastern city of Poltava, one of the most lethal Russian strikes in the war.

With the nation’s democracy in shambles, President Nicolás Maduro tries to inject some holiday cheer.

The country has been hit by a wave of sexually explicit videos and pictures that have spread online, prompting the authorities to launch a sweeping investigation.

The government said that at least 24 inmates had been shot dead as they attempted to escape from Makala Central Prison, which rights organizations have long warned is dangerously overcrowded.