The United States has vetoed a resolution at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) demanding an “immediate, unconditional and permanent” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s bombardment of the Palestinian territory continues. The US voted down the measure on Wednesday morning ...

Beirut, Lebanon – The United States’s special envoy for the Middle East, Amos Hochstein, has landed in the Lebanese capital to hold talks around a potential ceasefire deal between Hezbollah and Israel. This comes after an emotionally exhausting period for Lebanese as optimism and worry ...

These were the key developments on the 1,000th day of the Russia-Ukraine war. Here is the situation on Wednesday, November 20: Fighting and weapons Ukraine has used the United States-made long-range Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) to hit a military facility in the Russian ...

As the war enters its 998th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Tuesday, November 19: Fighting A Russian missile attack on a residential neighbourhood has killed 10 people and wounded 44 in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa. Four children were among the ...

The US Senate rejected Senator Bernie Sanders' bid for an inquiry on Israel's human rights record in January The US Senate is due to vote on Wednesday on legislation that would block arms sales to Israel, backed by lawmakers who say Israel is obstructing aid shipments desperately needed ...

State of emergency to allow government to send more money, people to help bring blazes under control, minister says. Ecuador has declared a 60-day state of emergency as the South American country has been hit by a severe drought and record wildfires that have razed large swaths of ...

United States President Joe Biden has witnessed the devastation of drought up close as he became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest, declaring that nobody can reverse “the clean energy revolution that’s under way in America”. His comments come even as the ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday confirmed plans to declare a national emergency on border security and utilise US military forces for a mass deportation of undocumented migrants.  The announcement came as Trump solidifies his immigration-focused agenda ...

The move comes as Joe Biden heads into his final months in US office, with successor Donald Trump believed to be more favourable towards Russia. Outgoing United States President Joe Biden will allow Ukraine to use US-provided weapons to strike inside Russia, various news outlets, ...

Explosions heard across Ukraine, including Kyiv and Odesa, as Russia advances at its fastest rate since the early days of the nearly three-year war. Russia has launched a huge strike on Ukraine’s energy facilities and military infrastructure, Russian news agencies report, citing the ...

Blasts were heard in Kyiv early on Sunday, reports said, after Ukraine’s air force warned of a major Russian missile attack threat. The head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council reported on the Telegram messaging app that there were many missiles in the air. Ukraine’s ...

During the final weeks of the 2024 United States presidential race, former President Donald Trump spoke with sympathy to Arab American and Muslim voters enraged by the country’s support for Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Trump visited Dearborn, Michigan, known as the “capital” of Arab ...

Israel has ramped up air attacks across Lebanon as its ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon since they invaded six weeks ago before pulling back after battles with Hezbollah fighters, Lebanese state media reported. On Saturday, Israeli air strikes on the village of Khreibeh ...

As United States President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, TikTok could be in line for a reprieve from the very leader who led the charge to ban the embattled video-sharing platform. Under a law signed by US President Joe Biden in April, ByteDance, the Chinese ...

By Francis Ugwu Revelations have emerged that Iran promised President Joe Biden’s administration it would not assassinate former President Donald Trump. Wall Street Journal, citing Fox ...

United States President-elect Donald Trump has picked controversial politician and vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, a job he lobbied for when suspended his own election campaign and supported that of the Republican candidate. “I am thrilled ...

US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is planning to kill a $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, Reuters news agency has reported, citing two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Ending the tax credit could ...

EU says Meta automatically ties its ad service – Facebook Marketplace – to Facebook, creating an unfair advantage. The European Union has hit technology giant Meta with a fine just shy of 800 million euros for what it called “abusive practices” involving its Facebook Marketplace online ...

65-year-old man allegedly told police he defaced Shinto shrine as a ‘prank’. Japanese police have arrested a 65-year-old American tourist for allegedly defacing a Tokyo shrine. The man, identified as Steve Hayes, is accused of using his fingernails to scratch five letters into a ...

Putting an end to days of speculation, United States President-elect Donald Trump nominated Florida Senator Marco Rubio to lead the State Department under the incoming administration. The choice of his former political rival had been rumoured for days and signals the new administration’s ...

A teenager from British Columbia tested positive for the H5 avian flu, and health authorities are investigating. Canada has confirmed its first human case of bird flu after a teenager tested positive for the virus, according to health authorities. The teenager, from the western ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – The main highway connecting Pakistan’s Kurram has remained closed for over four weeks as sectarian tensions sparked by land disputes continue to simmer in this tribal district bordering Afghanistan. A picturesque mountainous region in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, ...

On the streets of Pakistan’s second biggest city, smog stings eyes and burns throats. Inside homes, few people can afford air purifiers to limit the damage of toxic particles that seep through doors and windows. Lahore, a city of 14 million people stuffed with factories, regularly ranks ...

UN political chief doesn’t name countries providing weapons to army and paramilitary forces, says it’s ‘unconscionable’. The United Nations has said continued weapons supplies to Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces are “enabling the slaughter” and must stop, with civilians ...

Russia rains missiles on Kyiv as US Secretary of State Blinken pledges Biden government will do what it can for Ukraine before leaving office. United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has pledged to strengthen support for Ukraine before the end of Joe Biden’s presidency in ...

As the war enters its 992nd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, November 13: Fighting Ukraine shot down 46 of 110 Russian drones launched overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said. An additional 60 Russian drones were lost in Ukrainian airspace ...

In picking Fox News Channel host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense, President-elect Donald Trump has selected a military veteran and popular conservative media personality with a large following of his own. Hegseth, 44, has developed a close rapport with Trump, who also reportedly ...

Prosecutors sought 17 years imprisonment for ‘significant’ violations of the Espionage Act. Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts National Guard, has been jailed for 15 years for leaking classified documents about the war in Ukraine and other military secrets. A federal judge ...

Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including a drone strike on a cafe in the al-Mawasi area in the south of the territory which was previously designated a “safe zone” by Israel’s military. An Israeli strike late on Monday hit a makeshift cafeteria used by ...

At least 14 people have been reported killed and 15 others injured following an Israeli air strike on the town of Ain Yaaqoub in the far north of Lebanon. The Israeli missile that hit a building on Monday where 30 people were residing, including Syrian refugees, marked the northernmost ...

Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza calls on international organisations to protect the facility from attacks. At least 30 people have been killed across Gaza by Israeli military attacks as tanks entered the western side of the Nuseirat refugee camp in a new incursion. Health ...

Here is the situation on Monday, November 11: Fighting Russian air attacks killed at least five people in southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv, regional Governor Vitaly Kim said on Telegram, a day after Moscow and Kyiv launched record overnight drone attacks on each other. One person was ...

There is a “strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas” of northern Gaza, according to a committee of global food security experts, as Israeli forces press on with a major offensive in the area. “Immediate action, within days not weeks, is required from all actors who are directly ...

Ukrainian authorities issued widespread air raid alerts on Monday after a series of Russian airstrikes killed at least six people in the southern regions of Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia. The Ukrainian Air Force confirmed in a post on Telegram that Russian ...

Police describe escapees, who are not carrying disease, as ‘harmless and a little skittish’, posing ‘almost no danger to public’. More than 40 monkeys escaped from a research lab in a small town in the United States after an employee failed to properly shut an enclosure. The 43 ...

Donald Trump will be serving a second presidential term, and with both chambers of Congress likely under Republican leadership—though the House is still to be decided— the future of education in the U.S. could starkly change. Trump has pledged to dismantle the Department of Education, cut ...

Canada has announced that it will no longer automatically grant 10-year multiple-entry visas to tourists. The new guidelines, released by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), empower immigration officers to issue visas with shorter durations based ...

By Francis Ugwu The Justice Department on Friday said it has thwarted an Iranian plot to kill President-elect, Donald Trump in the leadup to the election. Authorities in a court document filed in federal court in Manhattan alleged that an unnamed official ...

  Focusing her campaign on abortion rights, Kamala Harris believed she had found a winning strategy to attract women voters. But it was Donald Trump who claimed victory, increasing his support among American men — particularly young men. While young people ...

As the war enters its 987th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Friday, November 8: Fighting Russian forces have captured the village of Kreminna Balka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Russia’s Defence Ministry said. A Russian-guided bomb attack ...

Zelenskyy was among the first leaders to congratulate Trump, who has criticised the scale of US support for Ukraine. United States President Joe Biden plans to rush billions of dollars in security assistance to Ukraine before he leaves office in January, reports say, hoping to shore up ...

As the dust slowly settles on this election, and Kamala Harris stands before the wreckage of a campaign that failed to win over a single swing state, the Democratic Party and its liberal supporters are eagerly looking for someone, anyone, other than themselves to blame for their catastrophic ...

Plumes of smoke have been seen rising above Beirut as Israel strikes city after forced evacuation orders issued for four southern neighbourhoods. Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has said that it targeted an Israeli military base south of Tel Aviv with a swarm of drones “for the first ...

For the past 13 months, Ahmed Jarad has been living with the dim hope that he might one day return to his home in Beit Lahiya, a village in the north of the Gaza Strip. But on Wednesday, as former US President Donald Trump declared his triumphant return to the White House following a close ...

As the war enters its 985th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, November 6: Fighting A Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia has killed six people, injured at least 20 more, and destroyed a critical ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning that fake bomb threats are being emailed to US polling locations in multiple states that “appear to originate from Russian email domains.” “None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far,” the FBI says. The agency ...

Just hours after the polls closed in the 2020 United States presidential election, as millions of votes were still being counted, Donald Trump delivered an extraordinary address. “We were getting ready to win this election – frankly, we did win this election,” the then-president told ...

As the war enters its 984th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Tuesday, November 5: Fighting Ukraine’s air defence units were attempting to repel a Russian air attack on Kyiv in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, ...

Dearborn, Michigan – On a sunny but frigid afternoon, dozens of protesters stood on a street corner in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn and chanted against Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris as well as her Republican rival Donald Trump. “Trump and Harris, you can’t hide, no ...

With just one day remaining until the US حresidential election, campaigning has hit overdrive. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and her Republican rival Donald Trump are on a tour of swing states aiming to sway undecided voters. On Sunday, Harris was in Michigan, while Trump focused on ...