Russia has taken full control of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, according to a Russian-installed official. The announcement comes more than three years after President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine in February... Read more »
More than 14 million of the world’s most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected... Read more »
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has threatened to sponsor the formation of a new party in the United States to challenge the two dominant parties. The Democratic Party and the Republican... Read more »
A Norwegian lottery company on Monday apologised to 47,000 crestfallen gamblers who were mistakenly told they had won huge sums in a lottery, the firm blaming a currency conversion error. State-owned gambling... Read more »
Israel said Monday it is “interested” in striking peace agreements with neighbouring Lebanon and Syria, a potentially historic shift in the region after decades of war and animosity. With Syria under a... Read more »
US senators were inching Sunday towards a vote on Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” spending bill. This hugely divisive proposal would deliver key parts of the US president’s domestic agenda while making massive... Read more »
President Bola Tinubu and Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre on Sunday committed to establishing formal diplomatic relations between Nigeria and Saint Lucia. Both leaders discussed ongoing efforts toward this goal during Tinubu’s... Read more »
US senators debated into the early hours of Sunday Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” spending bill, a hugely divisive proposal that would deliver key parts of the US president’s domestic agenda while making... Read more »
A sudden crowd surge at a Hindu festival in India’s coastal state of Odisha on Sunday triggered a stampede that killed at least three people and injured several others, local government officials... Read more »
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must leave office, his predecessor Naftali Bennett has told a televised interview, refusing to say whether he intends to challenge the country’s longest-serving leader in an election.... Read more »
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 23 people in the war-stricken territory on Saturday, including at least three children who died when a house was struck. “At least... Read more »
Iran held a state funeral Saturday for some 60 scientists and commanders killed in its war with Israel, after its top diplomat condemned the latest White House tirade against supreme leader Ayatollah... Read more »
Authorities in India have arraigned a Nigerian man, Echzoaa Ezeawna Rio Abrnr, before a magistrate court in Mohali, Punjab, following his arrest for allegedly trafficking cocaine. The suspect was reportedly found in... Read more »
France will ban smoking on beaches and in parks, public gardens and bus shelters from Sunday, the government said. The decree, published in the official government gazette on Saturday, will also ban... Read more »
At least six people have been killed in an Israeli attack on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic... Read more »
Iran is now hosting a mass state funeral for about 60 people, including military commanders and nuclear scientists, killed in the 12-day war with Israel. “The ceremony to honour the martyrs has... Read more »
A court in Turkey has given life sentences to four border guards convicted of torturing two Syrian migrants to death in March 2023, according to a verdict seen by AFP on Friday.... Read more »
Moscow summoned German ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff on Friday to protest Berlin’s “persecution” of Russian journalists, Russian state media reported. The row began after Russia’s top media official in Berlin accused German... Read more »
South Korean police on Friday arrested six US nationals attempting to send plastic bottles packed with rice and Bibles to North Korea, the head of the investigation team said. Local police said... Read more »
China confirmed on Friday the details of a trade deal framework with the United States, stating that Washington would lift “restrictive measures” while Beijing would “review and approve” items under export controls.... Read more »