China has forged closer ties with Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, but it has repeatedly denied supplying weapons. The United States Department of the Treasury has announced sanctions against Chinese makers of drone engines and parts that President Joe Biden’s administration says ...

European Union leaders are to discuss stricter laws to curb migration following a recent surge in support for the extreme right. While the conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon and Ukraine are on the agenda at the summit on Thursday in Brussels, a key topic will be how to deal with irregular migrants ...

The incident is the latest between China and Japan around disputed islands in the East China Sea. China’s coastguard said it ordered a Japanese fishing vessel to leave the country’s territorial waters after it “illegally” entered an area surrounding a disputed group of islands in the ...

On October 5, Israel launched a ground military operation, demanding the evacuation of Palestinians residing in Beit Hanoon, Beit Lahiya, Jabalia refugee camp, and Jabalia town. It then cut off the transfer of humanitarian aid to the area, leading aid agencies to sound the alarm of imminent ...

Israel has resumed air strikes on Beirut despite objections from the United States over the way it is conducting its campaign in Lebanon. Israeli military jets targeted the capital early on Wednesday for the first time since October 10. Three strikes were reported to have hit the southern ...

On September 20, 2023, Rosa Sanchez went to work picking carrots at Grimmway Farms, one of the largest producers of carrots in the world, located in the Bakersfield, California, area of the United States. Unfortunately, she would not last the day. She was fatally struck by a truck in the ...

UNICEF and WFP call for support for hundreds of thousands displaced by fighting, with women and children bearing the brunt. United Nations agencies have called for an urgent increase in funding to deal with the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Lebanon as the Israeli military continues ...

Seoul says it is ‘fully ready’ for any provocation as Pyongyang deploys eight artillery brigades to the border. South Korea’s military has announced it is “fully ready” to respond amid reports that North Korean troops have been deployed to the border and are getting ready to blow up ...

Ukraine’s president says his country and its allies need to evolve their response in light of Russia’s deepening alliance. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused North Korea of sending not only weapons but also soldiers to help Russia in its war against Ukraine. “We see ...

Authorities in California have confirmed the arrest of a man in possession of illegal firearms shortly before a rally held by former President Donald Trump on Saturday. At approximately 5 pm, deputies stationed at a security checkpoint near the intersection ...

US says move underscores ‘ironclad commitment’ to Israel’s defence against ‘further missile attacks by Iran’. The United States is sending an advanced anti-missile system to Israel, the Pentagon has announced, as President Joe Biden’s administration continues to provide “ironclad” ...

Upon the entry into force of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 2002, a palpable hope arose that the era of impunity for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide was coming to a close. Twenty-two years later, the international legitimacy of the court hangs in ...

Democratic presidential candidate in ‘excellent health’ before November’s US election, doctor says. United States Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, released a letter from her doctor that pronounced her in “excellent health” and fit for high office, in ...

After hitting UN peacekeepers, military claims Hezbollah is using ambulances for fighters while offering no evidence. The Israeli army has threatened to hit ambulances in southern Lebanon, claiming they are being misused by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, and also ordered more villages ...

US forces have conducted air strikes against multiple Islamic State group sites in Syria, the military said Saturday. US forces “conducted a series of airstrikes against multiple known ISIS camps in Syria in the early morning of Oct. 11,” the US Central Command said in a ...

In a largely symbolic move, the Ortega government condemned Israel’s leaders as ‘fascist’ and ‘genocidal’ over Gaza war. The government of Nicaragua has announced that it will break diplomatic relations with Israel, adding to the country’s growing isolation on the global stage amid its ...

As the war enters its 959th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Friday, October 11, 2024. Fighting The death toll from a Russian ballistic missile attack on port infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region rose to eight with nine people injured, ...

Washington’s envoy to Baghdad denounces Israeli broadcast that portrays Shia leader as a target for assassination. The United States ambassador to Iraq, Alina Romanowski, has denounced featuring Shia spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on an apparent hit list by Israel’s ...

Global hunger levels will stay high for another 136 years if efforts to tackle it continue at the current pace, a new report has found. The Global Hunger Index is reporting that people do not have enough food to eat in 42 countries and that famine is now looming in Sudan and Gaza due to ...

In his first National Day speech, new president stresses ‘thriving’ democracy of island claimed by Beijing. Taiwan’s President William Lai Ching-te has said he will stand against any attempt at annexation or encroachment into the island’s territory. China claims the self-ruled ...

Washington, DC – United States President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have held a “productive” 30-minute call, the White House says, amid an escalation of violence across the Middle East. The call between the two leaders on Wednesday was their first publicly ...

Russia has seized a second town in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk within a week in a months-long offensive that shows no signs of abating with Ukraine’s general staff reporting more than 150 assaults a day across the front. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its troops captured ...

Despite pressure to agree to a deal that would see captives released, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has not budged. It has been a year since the Hamas-led attack on Israel in which 1,139 people were killed and about 250 captured and taken to the Gaza Strip. Since October 7, ...

The Mexican government has revealed new details in the grisly murder of a mayor, Alejandro Arcos, who was found decapitated over the weekend. Arcos’s murder came nearly a week after President Claudia Sheinbaum took office, ramping up pressure on her administration to tamp down on ...

Democratic presidential candidate says preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is one of her top priorities. US Vice President Kamala Harris says Iran is the most significant enemy of the United States, citing Tehran’s recent ballistic missile attack against Israel. In an ...

WASHINGTON — The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S., the Justice Department said Tuesday. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City told investigators ...

The playmaker called time on a sensational career that saw him lift the World Cup, Euro and Champions League trophies. Former Barcelona and Spain midfielder Andres Iniesta has announced his retirement from football after a glittering trophy-laden career spanning 24 years. Iniesta, ...

It has been one year since Israel began its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Israel’s assault on Gaza began on October 7, in response to an attack by armed fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas and other Palestinian groups. Some 1,140 people died during the ...

Israeli forces have targeted the vicinity of Beirut airport in recent weeks amid its intensified bombing of Lebanon The United States warned Israel on Monday not to attack Beirut airport or the roads leading to it, as the Israeli army carried out intensive strikes in the Lebanese ...

White House condemns Republican candidate and former president’s remarks as ‘hateful’ and ‘disgusting’. US presidential contender Donald Trump has sparked uproar with more anti-immigrant rhetoric, claiming there are thousands of immigrants with murder convictions spreading “bad genes” ...

By Chris Johnson Alejandro Arcos, the newly elected mayor of Chilpancingo, was found murdered on Sunday, just six days after assuming office. His death is part of a wave of violence gripping the region, widely attributed to drug cartel ...

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in major cities around the world to condemn the Israeli military operations in Gaza as the war in the Palestinian territory nears the one-year mark. In the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, more than 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters ...

Amman, Jordan - David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, believed that the memory of the Nakba, or "catastrophe", would eventually fade for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians violently expelled from their homeland by Zionist militias in 1948. In 1949, a year after the State ...

At least five people were killed and 20 others wounded in an Israeli air strike on a Gaza mosque early on Sunday, medics said. The strike on the mosque, near the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, came as the Israel's war in the Palestinian enclave approaches its ...

As the war enters its 953rd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Saturday, October 5, 2024. Fighting Romania has recovered fragments of a Russian drone from a canal in the Danube Delta near the Ukrainian border, the defence ministry said. Romania ...

Tension is escalating between Russia and Ukraine, as both countries exchanged sharp statements over allegations of interference in Nigeria’s domestic affairs. The Russian Government on Friday issued a stern warning to the United States, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom ...

It’s one of the largest rivers in the world. And its water levels have fallen to a record low. Amid drought and wildfires, the Rio Negro plummeted to a depth of 12.66 metres (41.5 feet) on Friday, according to the Geological Service of Brazil, a government agency. That’s the shallowest ...

Senior Pentagon and Department of State officials warned US President Joe Biden’s administration of potential Israeli war crimes days after the start of the October 7, 2023, war on Gaza, an investigation by the Reuters news agency finds. Reuters reported on Friday that after reviewing ...

The ‘real time PCR test’ will enable the detection of the virus by swabbing human skin lesions. The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the use of the first diagnostic test for mpox that will provide immediate results. This will increase testing capabilities in countries ...

Floods from torrential rain kill several people across Jablanica, authorities say, while more are missing. Several people have died in floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina and others are missing as torrential rain and landslides destroyed homes, roads and bridges across the centre of the ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against TikTok claiming the company violated a new child privacy law in the state. It's set to be the first test of Texas’ Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act since it went into effect just over a month ago. ...

As the war enters its 952nd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Friday, October 4, 2024. Fighting At least three people, including a six-year-old girl, were killed after Russian drones hit a truck delivering gas cylinders to houses in a border village ...

A series of massive blasts have rocked Beirut’s southern suburbs, shaking buildings miles away in the Lebanese capital. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported there were more than 10 consecutive air strikes in the area late on Thursday. The attacks are thought to have been ...

The European Commission says the ‘soverignty’ laws breached a series of rights enshrined in European Union law. The European Commission says it is taking Hungary to court over its foreign influence laws, which critics have regarded as a tool to silence opposition voices. The ...

On October 1, Iran launched a massive aerial attack on Israel in retaliation for the assassinations of senior Hezbollah and Hamas leaders and some Iranian officers in Beirut and Tehran. In anticipation of the attack and to help defend its ally Israel, the United States had expanded its ...

Tigers at resort in Dong Nai province died after being fed sick chicken, additional deaths reported in other locations. Dozens of tigers, three lions and a panther have died in zoos in southern Vietnam, with subsequent tests detecting cases of bird flu. The country’s Ministry of ...

Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, on Wednesday, announced that Israel has barred United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres from entering the country for failing to ”unequivocally” condemn Iran’s missile attack on Israel. It would be recalled that Iran fired ...

At least seven killed in attack that took place moments before Iran launched a barrage of rockets at Israel. The armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas has claimed responsibility for a shooting attack in Jaffa, near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, that left seven people dead and many ...

As the war enters its 950th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, October 2, 2024. Fighting At least six people were killed and three injured in the southern city of Kherson, which lies on the western bank of the Dnipro river, after Russian ...

Hurricane Helene's flooding has subsided, but health risks are growing in hard-hit regions of the North Carolina mountains, where many people lost access to power and clean water. More than 150 deaths across the Southeast had been attributed to Hurricane Helene within days of the late ...