A new COVID variant, named Stratus, is now the most common strain in the United Kingdom, having first been detected in late January. Stratus is among seven variants currently being monitored by... Read more »
Four workers have been confirmed dead and at least 22 others injured after a fire broke out on Monday at a major data center in Cairo, disrupting telecommunications across Egypt’s capital. Hossam... Read more »
The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas rose to more than 100 on Monday, as rescuers continued their grim search for people swept away by torrents of water. Among the dead... Read more »
Five Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip, the military said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest days for Israeli forces in the Palestinian territory this year. Prime Minister... Read more »
Twelve Turkish soldiers have died after being exposed to methane gas while searching a cave in Iraq, the Turkish Ministry of National Defence said. The troops were searching a mountain cave when... Read more »
U.S. President Donald Trump will host leaders from five African nations in Washington next week to explore what the White House described as “commercial opportunities.” The meeting, set for July 9 at the... Read more »
Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was found not guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking on Wednesday but convicted of a less serious prostitution charge after a high-profile seven-week trial in New York.... Read more »
Ukraine summoned the deputy chief of the US embassy in Kyiv to a meeting Wednesday and warned him that any delays in US military aid to Ukraine would “encourage” Russia, Kyiv’s foreign... Read more »
Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian has ordered the suspension of Israel’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after U.S. and Israeli airstrikes targeted key nuclear facilities. The move could further hinder... Read more »
U.S. President Donald Trump has hinted at the possibility of deporting Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk following Musk’s recent criticism of Trump’s sweeping tax and spending legislation, dubbed the One Big... Read more »
US President Donald Trump threatened to impose more subsidies on Elon Musk’s Tesla company, warning his former ally that he may have “to close up shop and head back home to South... Read more »
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 »