New Vulcan rocket sends privately-built Moon lander to space
A robotic lander built by a private company was bound for the moon on Monday in an attempt to make the first U.S. lunar soft landing in half a ...
Blinken seeks to avert wider war, Israel says it is not fighting a single enemy
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Monday before heading on to Israel after warning that the Gaza ...
No data captured on Alaska Airlines 737 cockpit voice recorder
The cockpit voice recorder from the Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet that suffered a plug door blowout during an Alaska Airlines flight and carried out an emergency landing on Friday was overwritten ...
Israeli strike kills two Palestinian journalists in Gaza, officials say
An Israeli air strike on a car near Rafah in southern Gaza on Sunday killed two Palestinian journalists who were out reporting, according to health officials in Gaza and the ...
PM Sunak makes election appeal for Britain to ‘stick with’ his plan
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak urged voters and his own party on Sunday to “stick to the plan” for “long-term change” at an election he has signalled will most probably ...
North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong vows immediate strike if any provocation
North Korea will immediately launch a military strike in response to any provocation, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said on Sunday.
The remarks come ...
Three months in, Western diplomats try to stop Gaza war’s spread (updated)
Top U.S and European diplomats sought ways on Sunday to keep the Gaza war from spreading further in the Middle East, but three months after the start of the ...
Russia launches 28 drones, three missiles at Ukraine – Ukraine’s air force
Russia launched 28 attack drones and three cruise missile at Ukraine overnight, Ukraine’s air force said on Sunday, adding that its air defence systems destroyed 21 of the drones.
The air ...
US grounds some Boeing MAX planes for safety checks after cabin emergency
U.S. regulators on Saturday temporarily grounded 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 jetliners for safety checks following a cabin panel blowout that forced a new Alaska Airlines jet carrying passengers to make an ...
Japan premier vows “ceaseless” aid as snow hampers quake relief
Japan’s prime minister vowed to provide “ceaseless” support to areas devastated by the New Year’s Day earthquake as snow and sleet hampered rescue and relief efforts and local ...
Google, Meta and Tiktok’s debts removed from Russian database
Fines imposed by Russian courts on Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) and YouTube, Meta (META.O), TikTok and Telegram appear to have been settled as the companies are no longer ...
US intelligence confirms Islamic State’s Afghanistan branch behind Iran blasts
Communications intercepts collected by the United States confirmed that Islamic State’s (ISIS) Afghanistan-based branch carried out twin bombings in Iran that killed nearly 100 people, two sources familiar with the ...
Blinken to meet Turkish and Greek leaders as Gaza diplomacy tour begins
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting the leaders of Turkey and Greece on Saturday at the start of a week-long trip aimed at calming tensions that have ...
Isias hotel owner to remain in custody, next trial hearing set for April (Updated)
Ahmet Bozkurt, the owner of the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman, and his two sons Mehmet Fatih Bozkurt and Efe Bozkurt, saw their applications for release rejected ...
Heavy fire from Lebanon targets northern Israel amid concern over Gaza spillover
Heavy fire from Lebanon targeted northern Israel on Saturday, the Israeli military said, adding it had responded by striking a “terrorist cell” that took part in the attack, as top ...
How Israel failed to learn from Northern Ireland peace process
By Colin John Irwin
There is no peace in the Middle East because there is no effective peace process. This isn’t because the Palestinians and Israelis do not know ...
Iraq prepares to close down US-led coalition’s mission – PM
The Iraqi government is beginning the process to remove the US-led international military coalition from the country, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s office said on Friday.
The US has 900 ...
Trump overstated worth by billions, New York attorney general says in civil fraud case
Donald Trump should be permanently barred from New York’s real estate industry for “outrageous” fraud, the state attorney general said in a court filing ahead of closing arguments in ...
Pistorius release touches a nerve in country scarred by violence against women
South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius’ release on parole on Friday, nearly 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, provoked a raw response in a country scarred by ...
Cypriot journalist released after arrest in Turkey (Update)
Cypriot journalist Guren Tilki was released late on Friday evening, after having arrested in Turkey earlier that day for allegedly insulting the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a ...
Isias hotel case: ‘The defendants are spreading lies in court’
Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ and head of the north’s ‘parliamentary’ justice committee Oguzhan Hasipoglu made an extraordinary intervention to reporters on Friday regarding the trial of those held responsible for ...
Iran arrests suspects over bomb blasts, mourners demand revenge
Mourners wept over the coffins of victims of two deadly blasts in Iran as the interior minister said on Friday a number of suspects had been arrested over the attacks ...
US readies aid as Japan earthquake death toll nears 100
The United States said on Friday it is preparing military logistical support and aid for regions in Japan devastated by an earthquake that killed 94 people, forced about 33,000 people to leave ...
Israeli to launch more targeted assault on Hamas, defence minister outlines plans after war
Israel announced a more targeted approach in hunting down Hamas fighters and their leaders as its aerial assault pounded the Gaza Strip, forcing some displaced families to flee for safety ...