Palestinians report Israeli strike on school ahead of diplomatic talks
Palestinians reported a deadly Israeli strike on a Gaza City area school serving as a shelter on Saturday, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due to hear ...
Governments race to regulate AI tools
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT are complicating governments’ efforts to agree laws governing the use of the technology.
Here are the latest steps ...
Nepal hit by 6.4 earthquake, felt in New Delhi
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck western Nepal on Friday, Nepal’s National Seismological Centre reported as witnesses said it caused houses in the area to collapse and buildings in New Delhi, ...
NY judge in Trump civil fraud case issues gag order against lawyers
The judge overseeing the New York civil fraud case against former US President Donald Trump on Friday issued a gag order barring all lawyers from making public statements about the ...
UN rights committee calls on Iran to disband morality police
The United Nations Human Rights Committee on Friday expressed concern over Iran’s treatment of women and girls and called for the disbandment of the Islamic Republic’s morality police.
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UK Conservative lawmaker found guilty of racially aggravated order offence
A lawmaker in British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s governing Conservative Party was found guilty on Friday of a racially aggravated public order offence, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
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US to send additional weapons aid to Ukraine
The United States will provide additional arms and equipment to Ukraine for its ongoing fight against Russia’s invasion, US Secretary of Staten Antony Blinken said in a statement on ...
Hezbollah says wider Mideast war possible if Gaza assault continues (Update)
The leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group warned the United States on Friday that if Israel did not stop its assault on Gaza then the conflict could widen into ...
Israel tells citizens to reconsider travel abroad amid hostility
Israel urged its citizens on Friday to reconsider trips abroad and to exercise extra caution if already out of the country, citing an increase of hostility toward Jews and Israelis ...
King Charles wraps up Kenya visit marked by questions over colonial past
King Charles and Queen Camilla toured East Africa’s oldest mosque and an ancient fort on Friday as they concluded a four-day state visit to Kenya, which was marked by ...
Ukrainian troops battle exhaustion as war drags into second winter
Istoryk, a 26-year-old soldier in eastern Ukraine, finally managed to fall asleep one morning, exhausted from the relentless battles against Russian forces in the pinewood forests near Kreminna.
His rest ...
Irish PM: What I’m seeing unfolding in Gaza isn’t just self defence, it looks something more approaching revenge
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Friday described Israel’s actions in Gaza as “something approaching revenge”, in some of the strongest criticism of Israel by a leader of a ...
Putin ally warns ‘enemy’ Poland: you risk losing your statehood
A top ally of President Vladimir Putin warned Poland on Thursday that the NATO member state was now considered a “dangerous enemy” by Russia and could end up losing its ...
Israel sends thousands of cross-border Palestinian workers back to Gaza
Israel sent thousands of Palestinians back to besieged Gaza on Friday, pursuing a crackdown on workers and labourers from the territory who had previously been given permits to take jobs ...
Blinken seeks pauses in Gaza war as Israeli troops claim advances
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting Israeli leaders on Friday to push for humanitarian pauses in the Gaza war as Israeli troops surrounded the Palestinian enclave’s biggest ...
Russia’s biggest drone strike in weeks hits Ukrainian infrastructure
Russia launched a massive drone attack early on Friday, hitting critical infrastructure in the west and south of Ukraine and destroying private houses and commercial buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s ...
Three people dead, several missing after heavy rains, flooding in Tuscany
At least three people have died and several were missing after rivers overflowed due to heavy rains in central Italy, local authorities said on Friday, as Storm Ciaran continued to ...
Colombia rebels say Liverpool star Diaz’s father to be freed
A representative of Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas said on Thursday the group will free the father of Liverpool soccer star Luis Diaz, days after kidnapping him in ...
Hezbollah leader set to weigh in on Middle East war
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will on Friday make his first public comments since the Palestinian group Hamas and Israel went to war, a speech that will be scrutinised for ...
UAE warns against risk of regional spillover from Gaza war
Gulf Arab power the United Arab Emirates warned on Friday that there was a real risk of a regional spillover from the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, adding that it was ...
UK’s Sainsbury’s sees full-year profit at upper half of guidance
British supermarket group Sainsbury’s forecast full-year profit at the upper half of previous guidance as it reported slightly better-than-expected flat profit for the first half due to demand for ...
Japan unveils $113-billion package to cushion inflation
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday the government will spend over 17 trillion yen ($113 billion) on a package of measures to cushion the economic blow from inflation, which will ...
Polish hauliers to block Ukraine border crossings in protest
Polish truckers will block several border crossings with Ukraine starting next week in protest at what they say is Ukrainian hauliers’ free rein in Poland that is hurting their business, ...
Turkey ready to take cancer patients from shut Gaza hospital
Turkey is ready to take in cancer patients from Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital, which went out of service on Wednesday after running out of fuel, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca ...