Grifols, a Spanish company, said “unfounded attention” on its blood plasma business in Canada had led it to temporarily end collections at 17 clinics.

The National Transportation Safety Board said it had found a bird’s remains and feathers on a broken engine.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia visited the Kuril Islands on Thursday for the first time since they were seized from Japan at the end of World War II.

Decrees restricting women’s rights to study, work, travel and act independently now threaten to damage Afghanistan permanently, experts say.

Electric motorcycle sales are surging in Pakistan, as wartime prices accelerate the pivot away from fossil fuels in the developing world.

The military’s failure to keep extremists away from two Palestinian families trapped in their West Bank homes made clear the chaos gripping the Israeli-occupied territory.

The global weather disrupter appears to be taking a toll, and its peak could still be months away.

Ash spewing from Mount Etna on Sicily caused the cancellation of more than 700 flights during the peak of Italy’s summer tourism season.

Emergency services said they were working at the scene of a train derailment near Lewes, in East Sussex, on Thursday.

Topos Azteca, a Mexican volunteer rescue group that works worldwide and helped after the Sept. 11 attacks, arrived in Colombia after searching for survivors in Venezuela.