One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia’s sparsely populated Far East on Wednesday, causing tsunamis up to four metres (12 feet) high across the Pacific and sparking evacuations from Hawaii... Read more »
Yair Lapid, leader of the opposition and former prime minister, has criticised the government’s handling of the Gaza conflict saying it led Israel from a “just war” to a “political disaster”. In... Read more »
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy declared that the conditions the UK government set on Israel over recognition of Palestinian statehood are an attempt to “affect the situation on the ground” in Gaza.... Read more »
The United States has issued a warning to Nigerian nationals who intend to travel primarily to deliver babies on American soil in hopes of securing U.S. citizenship for their children. The U.S.... Read more »
South African woman shot d3ad by gunmen 6 months after she received two bullets and threat letter with message: “Stay away from my man. Your days are numbered” A 32-year-old South African... Read more »
Donald Trump’s promise to carry out the largest deportation operation in US history has appalled some Americans. But others are cashing in on the boom in demand for private detention centres. Migrants... Read more »
A strong blast early Saturday damaged an apartment building in a suburb of Greece’s second city Thessaloniki, wounding two passersby and shattering windows of nearby buildings. Six cars were also damaged in... Read more »
Russia struck several regions of Ukraine overnight, officials said Saturday, reporting one person killed in Dnipro, while Moscow said two people died after a Ukrainian drone attack in the Rostov region. Dnipro... Read more »
More than 220 British MPs, including dozens from the ruling Labour party, demanded on Friday that the UK government formally recognise a Palestinian state, further increasing pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer.... Read more »
Lukkana Namprakhon and her six-year-old daughter, Sunisa Chanprakhon, are among the tens of thousands of Thais who have evacuated from the border areas. They spent 30 minutes in a bunker before fleeing... Read more »
Hundreds of Cambodians have sought shelter on the grounds of a Buddhist pagoda in Oddar Meanchey province, fleeing the border area after the deadliest fighting in more than a decade between the... Read more »
France defended its decision to recognise Palestinian statehood amid domestic and international criticism on Friday, including against the charge that the move plays into the hands of militant group Hamas. President Emmanuel... Read more »
A spokesperson for the US State Department has refused to answer repeated questions from reporters about special envoy Witkoff’s statement on the Trump administration’s withdrawal from Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar. Notably,... Read more »
Josephine Guilbeau, a US Army veteran, has delivered an impassioned rebuke of Israel’s starvation policy against Palestinians during a news conference outside the US Capitol. “I have been screaming, as a conservative... Read more »
A Nigerian man, Abiola Quadri, has been sentenced to over 11 years in federal prison in the United States for orchestrating a $1.3 million fraud scheme involving stolen identities to claim COVID-19... Read more »
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, have filed a defamation lawsuit in the United States against right-wing commentator Candace Owens over what they describe as “verifiably false and devastating lies”... Read more »
Tokyo stocks surged Wednesday after Japan and the United States finally hammered out a trade deal to slash Donald Trump’s tariffs, including those on the crucial car sector. Investors were also cheered... Read more »
Asian markets were mixed Tuesday as traders kept an eye on earnings from Wall Street titans this week while tracking US trade talks just over a week before the deadline for a... Read more »
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced a new set of immigration-related fees following the implementation of the H.R. 1 Reconciliation Bill, with changes set to take effect from July... Read more »
A Bangladeshi training fighter jet crashed into a school in the capital Dhaka on Monday, killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens more in the country’s deadliest aviation accident in decades.... Read more »