At least one protester has reportedly been shot and killed by Saudi forces. Crossing the Line Saudi Arabia is working on a comically colossal skyscraper, called "The Line," that aims to stretch across 105 miles of desert and tower over the Empire State Building. And that's only one part of an ...

Prime Minister Netanyahu says Israel would ‘fight with our fingernails’ to achieve war objectives despite mounting US pressure. Israeli officials have struck a defiant tone after US President Joe Biden warned that the United States would not provide weapons for a full-scale ground ...

As the war enters its 805th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Thursday, May 9, 2024. Fighting Three people were injured after Russia launched more than 70 missiles and drones at power stations and energy infrastructure in Kyiv and six other cities. ...

Miss Teen USA, UmaSofia Srivastava, 17, announced that she would be stepping down from her role, saying that her personal values “no longer fully align with the direction of the organization.” “After months of grappling with this decision, I have made the choice to resign from the title of Miss ...

New Orleans, Louisiana, US – Student protests against the Israeli war on Gaza have rocked the United States over the past few weeks, prompting a police crackdown on many campuses and more than 2,000 arrests. Students who have set up protest encampments at universities across the country are ...

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has confirmed reports that the United States paused a weapons shipment to Israel, as President Joe Biden’s administration faces growing pressure to condition aid to the top US ally amid the war in Gaza. Testifying before a US congressional subcommittee on ...

Move comes after launch of AI-enabled laptop drew fire from Republican lawmakers. The United States has revoked some licenses that allow companies to ship goods, such as chips, to sanctioned Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies. Some companies were notified on ...

Commodities minister says critically endangered animals could be given to countries that buy Malaysia’s palm oil. Malaysia has said it plans to start an “orangutan diplomacy” programme for countries that buy its palm oil. The Southeast Asian nation is the world’s second biggest ...

By Seun Opejobi Porn star Stormy Daniels testified on Tuesday in the ongoing hush money trial against former President Donald Trump. Daniels said her life descended into “chaos” after her hush-money deal with Trump to stay silent about their alleged sexual encounter was made public. She told the ...

ByteDance, the owner of the social media platform TikTok, has filed a lawsuit against the United States government in an effort to block a law that would force it to divest from its US assets. On Tuesday, lawyers for ByteDance filed the complaint in the US Court of Appeals in Washington, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin was Tuesday sworn into office at a lavish Kremlin ceremony for a record-breaking fifth term with more power than ever before. The 71-year-old has ruled Russia since the turn of the century, securing a fresh six-year mandate in March after winning presidential ...

By Ochogwu Sunday Several people have been injured or killed in an attack at a hospital in south-west China, the state news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday. There were at least 10 victims in the attack, but it was not clear how many were injured or dead. The report did not also provide any ...

Third-party payroll system with names and bank details of armed forces staff hacked, reports say. Britain’s Ministry of Defence has been the target of a large-scale cyberattack, a government minister confirmed to British media. On Tuesday, Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride told ...

As the war enters its 803rd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Fighting Russia claimed to have taken control of two more Ukrainian settlements – Soloviove in the eastern Donetsk region and Kotliarivka further north in the Kharkiv ...

  Picket signs, smoke bombs and flares almost mingled with cameras and excited fans as scores of pro-Palestinian protesters tried to make their way to the Met Gala Monday evening to disrupt the lavish affair in New York City. While celebrities made their fashionable entrances on the steps ...

A New York jury has heard more testimony in the criminal trial against former United States President Donald Trump, who is accused of falsifying business records linked to hush-money payments ahead of the 2016 elections. But even before the jury was seated on Monday, Judge Juan Merchan ...

The Israeli army has ordered tens of thousands of Palestinians to leave Rafah amid growing fears of a ground assault on the southern Gaza city, where 1.4 million people displaced by Israel’s war on Gaza have sought shelter. An Israeli military spokesperson told journalists about 100,000 ...

Berlin’s recall of envoy extends diplomatic tension on eve of Putin’s inauguration. Germany has recalled its ambassador to Russia in protest against a series of cyberattacks. Berlin recalled Alexander Graf Lambsdorff on Monday, three days after accusing Moscow of cyberattacks on the ...

Former President Donald Trump made an appearance at Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix as a guest of McLaren. Trump walked out into the paddock with a frenzy of attention following him before he made his way into the McLaren garage. After waving to the crowd from McLaren’s pit box, Trump had some ...

The stand-in candidate for popular ex-President Ricardo Martinelli has promised to boost the economy. Jose Raul Mulino, a stand-in for a former president banned from running, has won the country’s presidential elections. Authorities unofficially called the race late on Sunday after ...

By Seun Opejobi Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has declared that Israel will stand alone and defend itself. Netanyahu, however, expressed hope that Israel will defeat its “genocidal enemies.” He spoke at the opening ceremony for Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. ...

As the war enters its 802nd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, May 6, 2024. Fighting At least one person was killed and 24 injured in Russian drone and bomb attacks on Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv and the surrounding region. Power cuts ...

  TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close Sunday, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in ...

Hundreds of thousands of potentially damning internal conversations may have gone missing at Google, according to allegations from the Department of Justice. As the landmark antitrust trial over Google's search engine monopoly winds down, this revelation could prove pivotal. The DOJ alleges ...

By Matthew Atungwu The U.S. Secret Service has said that a driver died after a vehicle traveling at high speed collided with a gate at the White House. In a statement via X on Sunday, the federal law enforcement agency, said shortly before 10:30 p.m. (1430 GMT) on May 4th, the vehicle crashed ...

Hamas Political Bureau Member, Osama Hamdan holds a press conference regarding proposed prisoner swap, cease-fire deal in Hamas' response to Israeli government on February 07 A senior Hamas official insisted late Saturday that the group would "not agree under any circumstances" to a truce ...

Tbilisi, Georgia – Crowds of protesters have been braving tear gas and plastic bullets for more than two weeks in protest against the Georgian government’s draft law targeting civil society. The new law would require non-profit entities (NGOs and media outlets) receiving more than 20 ...

The United Kingdom edition of Reader’s Digest is shutting down after 86 years of operation. The magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Eva Mackevic, announced this development on LinkedIn on Monday. Mackevic explained that the magazine, founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Wallace in the US, has ...

Russia has added Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to its list of wanted criminals, a move Kyiv dismissed as a sign of Moscow’s “desperation”. Zelensky’s name appeared on Saturday on the Russian interior ministry’s “wanted” list, an online database of alleged criminals sought by the Russian ...

The death toll has climbed to 56 in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state, with tens of thousands displaced. Overpowering floods and mudslides caused by torrential rains are continuing to sweep southern Brazil, killing at least 56 people and forcing tens of thousands out of their ...

Lisbon, Portugal – The olive-green military vehicles are the same, as are the uniforms of the personnel riding them. It’s even the same day of the week on this April 25 – a Thursday. This is when it all started, on the shore of the Tagus River where the sun hangs like a bulb over the ...

Austin, Texas – “It didn’t feel real.” That’s how Alishba Javaid, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, describes the moment when she saw roughly 30 state troopers walk onto the campus lawn. Javaid and hundreds of her classmates had gathered on the grass, in the shadow of the ...

Police cleared two of the Tunisian capital’s irregular Black migrant camps, busing residents to an unknown location. Tunis, Tunisia – Hundreds of refugees and migrants camped in the centre of Tunis have disappeared, with reports suggesting that the group, including several infants, had ...

Statement released after Israeli and US officials rebuke the court for possible arrest warrants over Gaza war. The prosecutor’s office at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has appealed for an end to what it calls intimidation of its staff, saying such threats could constitute an ...

Groups advocating for Palestinian prisoners say Adnan al-Barash, head of orthopaedics, died as a ‘result of torture’. A prominent Palestinian doctor from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital has died in an Israeli jail after more than four months of detention, according to the enclave’s health ...

UN agency’s chief calls award a tribute to courage of journalists facing ‘difficult and dangerous’ conditions in Gaza. All Palestinian journalists covering Israel’s war on Gaza have been awarded UNESCO’s world press freedom prize, the United Nations cultural agency has said. “In ...

  Desperate times call for desperate measures, and across Asia, communities are responding to an extreme and deadly heat wave, which has battered the region since last month and has left few options for residents and governments to cope, in creative and even superstitious ways. One city in ...

Franchise operator cites ‘challenging economic conditions’ amid local reports linking closures to boycotts of Israel. KFC Malaysia has temporarily closed some outlets in the country amid calls to boycott the chain over Israel’s war in Gaza. KFC is among a number of Western brands in ...

Botched strike is latest incident to raise questions about lack of accountability for civilian deaths from US strikes. The United States Department of Defense has acknowledged that a drone strike in Syria, initially said to have successfully targeted an al-Qaeda leader, actually killed ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says firm will provide education and training to 200,000 people. Microsoft will invest $2.2bn in artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure in Malaysia to support the country’s digital transformation, the tech giant has said, following similar ...

As the war enters its 798th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Thursday, May 2, 2024. Fighting Odesa Regional Governor Oleh Kiper said at least 14 people were injured after Russia struck a postal depot with a ballistic missile triggering a large fire. ...

US secretary of state says a deal is achievable as he makes another diplomatic push to pause the fighting in Gaza. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says a strong proposal for a truce in Israel’s war on Gaza is on the table as he makes his seventh visit to the Middle East since fighting ...

On April 13, the naval forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a Portuguese-flagged container ship, the MSC Aries, in the Strait of Hormuz and detained its crew. The vessel is operated by Swiss-based Mediterranean Shipping Company, which is leasing it from ...

Some 30 people are being treated in hospital after they were trapped in their vehicles when the road caved in early on Wednesday morning. At least 19 people have been killed after part of a highway collapsed in southern China’s Guangdong province. State broadcaster CCTV reported a ...

The founder of cryptocurrency firm, Binance, was sentenced to four months in US prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to money laundering charges, in the most high-profile crypto case since Sam Bankman-Fried was jailed. Changpeng Zhao, a Canadian, resigned from his post at the world’s largest ...

The crackdown in Tbilisi comes after lawmakers debated a controversial bill on foreign funding. Police in Georgia have used tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters as thousands rallied outside parliament in Tbilisi for a third week to oppose a controversial “foreign influence” ...

As the war enters its 797th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Fighting At least three people were killed and three injured after a Russian missile struck the Ukrainian port city of Odesa early on Wednesday. At least one man ...

The move comes after the UK said it would bring forward legislation to block such state-backed takeover deals in media. An Abu Dhabi-backed group planning to take over Britain’s Telegraph Media Group (TMG) has said it will withdraw after the UK government moved to block the deal. ...

Meta defends risk mitigation process after EU says the companies efforts at moderating content was ‘insufficient’. The European Commission has launched a disinformation probe against social media giant Meta. The EU announced the investigation into the operator of Facebook and ...

Patna, Bihar – Sanjeev Kumar is 27 and jobless – a desperate situation compounded by his car salesman father’s imminent retirement in a few years. The business studies graduate from Patna, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Bihar, voted for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya ...