A plane crashed while leaving the Unity Oil Field en route to Juba, a radio station affiliated with the UN said. Those killed include the pilot and co-pilot. A Juba-bound plane crashed as it departed from South Sudan's major Unity Oil Field on Wednesday, killing at least 19 of those on board, a United Nations radio station said. "The pilot and co-pilot are among the dead," radio Miraya said, adding that the plane was carrying 21, including the pilot. The French AFP news agency meanwhile quoted the Unity State minister...

Australia says Russia has confirmed that national Oscar Jenkins is alive. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had warned of severe consequences if reports he was killed after capture turned out to be true. An Australian national who had been fighting in Ukraine and who was thought to have been killed by Russian forces after his capture is still alive, according to Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong. Video footage of Oscar Jenkins appearing to be interrogated and struck by Russian soldiers emerged in December. This was then followed by reports earlier...

An Australian court has found 14 members of a tiny sect guilty in the death of a diabetic girl whom they denied insulin. Her parents and the sect leader were among those convicted for manslaughter. Fourteen members of a Christian religious sect in the northeastern Australian state of Queensland were found guilty on Wednesday of having caused the death of an 8-year-old diabetic girl by denying her life-saving insulin. The girl, Elizabeth Struhs, died in January 2022 in the city of Toowoomba after the treatment was withdrawn on religious grounds,...

At least seven people have died and dozens of others have been injured in a stampede at the world’s largest religious festival in India, a gathering where millions take part in rituals and offer prayers. Dozens of people have been injured in a stampede at India's Maha Kumbh festival as tens of thousands of people turned out for the religious gathering to offer their prayers by the riverbanks of the northern city of Prayagraj, authorities said on Wednesday. "Some people have got injured and have been hospitalized after a barrier...

A suspected Libyan warlord was released from detention in the northern city of Turin last week and flown home on an official aircraft. The International Criminal Court has demanded an explanation. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is under investigation over the release of a suspected Libyan warlord, she announced on Tuesday. Ossama Anjiem, also known as Ossama al-Masri, was detained in Turin earlier this month under an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for alleged crimes against humanity. Al-Masri ran a detention center near Tripoli and has been accused of...

The world-famous Mona Lisa is set to be moved to a dedicated room inside the museum with its own entrance. Meanwhile, non-EU visitors can expect to pay higher entry fees in future. French President Emmanuel Macron announced a major overhaul of the Louvre museum in Paris on Tuesday. The renovated museum would include a "grand new entrance" and a dedicated room for the Mona Lisa, Macron said. Meanwhile, visitors form outside of the European Union would pay a higher entry free. Mona Lisa to get own room Standing in front...

The resignation of Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic is unlikely to quell the massive protests of recent weeks, putting the country's all-powerful president, Aleksandar Vucic, under unprecedented pressure. Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic resigned on Tuesday, as months of student and civic protests began to take their political toll. Vucevic is a member of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and a close political ally of President Aleksandar Vucic. The mayor of Novi Sad and fellow SNS party member Milan Djuric also resigned. "This shows that we who were elected...

Tech giant Google says it will update its popular maps service to reflect any official name changes pushed through by Donald Trump. It's part of an established policy, but it's not always popular. Google says it will display the names 'Gulf of America' and 'Mount McKinley' to the US users of its Google Maps service— if and when US President Donald Trump's pledge to rename the locations becomes official. Trump said in his inauguration speech on January 20 that he planned to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the 'Gulf...