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About 150,000 people marched through Taipei on Saturday (October 28) in a riotous and noisy celebration of LGBTQ+ equality and diversity at east Asia's largest Pride march. Hong Kong tourist Jason Wu said "it's important to have a place where we are able to be ourselves."

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been tracked down to the “Polar Wolf” penal colony north of the Arctic Circle, his spokeswoman said on Monday, after supporters lost touch with him for more than two weeks. Emma Jehle reports.

The leading contenders in Mexico's upcoming presidential election are both women. Their rise - and the potential election of the country's first female president next year - marks the culmination of a rapid process of female inclusion in Mexican politics since 2000. Angela Johnston reports.

Several thousand unionized port workers in Canada's western province of British Columbia went on strike after failing to reach a deal to renew an industry-wide contract that expired in March, a waterfront employers group said on Saturday (July 1).

This video contains graphic content. Israeli tanks pushed deeper into districts in central and southern Gaza overnight under heavy air and artillery fire, residents said, pressing a deadly offensive that has razed much of the enclave and that Israel has said may last months more. Rachel Faber reports.

At a campaign rally in Iowa Saturday (October 7) former U.S. President Donald Trump said, "The Israeli attack was made because we are perceived as being weak and ineffective," after the deadliest day of violence inflicted by the Palestinian group Hamas in Israel since the Yom Kippur war 50 years ago.

Thousands gathered in a square in central Belgrade on Saturday (December 30) in the biggest protest yet over the results of parliamentary and municipal elections on Dec. 17, which demonstrators want to be annulled. Marinika Tepic, who has been on hunger strike, spoke to the crowd on stage with the help of two colleagues.

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the death of George Floyd, was attacked in a prison in Arizona, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison confirmed on Saturday. Rachel Faber reports.

Dutch King Willem-Alexander on Saturday (July 1) apologized for the Netherlands' historic involvement in slavery and the effects that it still has today.

Scientists are expecting hundreds of billions of cicadas to pop up across parts of the United States this spring. For the first time since 1803, two broods of the loud bugs will be emerging and overlapping .

Ukraine has been publicly cautious in counting gains in its ongoing counteroffensive against Russian forces. On Friday the United States' top general, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley, said he wasn't surprised that progress was slower than some people or computers had predicted, and that "no one should have any illusions."

Ukrainian couple Lesia Shestakova, a Catholic, and Oleksandr Shestakov, an Orthodox believer, will celebrate Christmas together on December 25 for the first time. Zachary Goelman produced this report.

A six-storey building collapsed while under construction in Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan on Friday (June 30), killing at least seven of the builders on site, firefighters at the scene said on Saturday (July 1).

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Friday (August 18) that the “summer of extremes” is still ongoing, as several countries in Europe braces for a new heatwave.

A plane used to execute opponents of Argentina's military dictatorship has been flown back to Buenos Aires. Once used for 'death flights' in the Dirty War, it was found in the United States being used for skydiving trips. Lucy Fielder has more.

Residents of Slovenia continued the clean up Saturday (August 5) after at least two people died as torrential rains hit northern and western sections of the country on Friday, causing floods, cutting power and disrupting traffic.

Phone footage showed the moment Hamas paragliders attacked a desert festival in Israel on Saturday (October 7), while drone footage shows the the destruction in the aftermath of the attack that took place near Re'im close to Gaza. Thousands of young people attended the Nature Party, near Kibbutz Re'im. As rocket fire exploded around, panicked party goers tried to escape in any way they could.

Scotland's former first minister Nicola Sturgeon reiterated on Sunday (June18) that she had done nothing wrong following her arrest by police a week earlier.

Tropical Storm Idalia has formed in the Caribbean and could strengthen into a hurricane, bringing high winds and storm surges to Cuba and Florida later this week, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday his government will reinforce measures to contain migration as he seeks to help the United States cope with record numbers of people trying to reach the U.S. border. This report produced by Freddie Joyner.

The families and friends of Ukrainian prisoners of war staged a protest in Kyiv city center on Sunday (December 31) calling for their release from Russian captivity.

A plane made a bumpy landing at London's Heathrow Airport on Wednesday (December 27), as Storm Gerrit caused heavy winds to batter parts of the UK.

A Spanish coast guard vessel brought 38 migrants to the port of Arguineguin in Gran Canaria on Saturday (June 17) after intercepting them in a wooden boat carrying them in the Atlantic Ocean.

Bombings and fighting have been reported in northern Gaza as Gaza health authorities and the Israeli military both announced mounting death tolls. Zachary Goelman produced this report.

When Hamas gunmen attacked the Nova music festival site in Israel on Oct. 7, Laura Kadar Blajman wished she would rather die than be taken into Gaza as a hostage. On Sunday (Nov. 5), Kadar Blajman went back to see the caravan where she hid for about six hours with her husband and her friends during the attack, looking for answers about her survival.