The move comes after the two countries blew past a self-imposed deadline to reach a trade agreement....
A UN-backed body confirms famine in Gaza Strip and surrounding areas, and says half a million are facing "catastrophic" conditions....
Volodymyr Zelensky urges Western allies to impose fresh sanctions on Moscow if it shows no interest in peace....
Bilateral trade between South Africa and Japan has been expanding since 1992....
A UN-backed body says more than half a million people across Gaza are facing "starvation, destitution and death"....
Donald Trump called for the release of a Colorado official jailed on charges linked to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, as he renews his attacks on the US voting system....
A US state department official says US visa holders will face "continuous vetting"....
New images released by North Korean state media showed leader Kim Jong Un kneeling before portraits of soldiers killed fighting for Russia against Ukraine, as well as hugging an emotional survivor of...
A US federal judge barred the Trump administration and Florida state government from bringing any new migrants to the detention centre known as “Alligator Alcatraz” and ordered much of the site to be...
The Supreme Court says only dogs with rabies or aggressive behaviour should be kept in shelters....
Ranil Wickremesinghe has been arrested in connection with the alleged misuse of funds, officials said....
Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar wi...
Workers, employers and governments need to adapt to a more extreme climate, the organisation says....
The former PM's lese majeste charge relates to an interview he did with a South Korean newspaper years ago....
The My Wife Facebook group had 32,000 members before it was shut down for violating adult sexual exploitation policies....
Ex-Twitter staff sued the platform after some 6,000 employees were sacked in 2022....
The LAPD allege the singer "charged" at them and was placed under arrest on suspicion of battery....
The younger of the Menendez brothers, who killed their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion, can try again for parole in three years....
China's ambassador to India Xu Feihong says Beijing "firmly opposes" Washington's steep tariffs on Delhi....
A car bomb killed six people in Cali while a downed police helicopter left 12 officers dead....
Russia and China are leading the global race in hypersonic missiles - how worried should we be that the US is playing catch up and the UK has none?...
Kaja Kallas warns in a BBC interview against pushing Ukraine to give up territories to Russia....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would immediately resume negotiations for the release of all hostages held in Gaza and an end to the nearly two-year-old war but on terms acc...
The decision was announced after a 10-hour hearing....
The visit would mark a significant moment for the Pope, who has urged peace in the Middle East....
Earlier this week, a Hamas source said the armed group had agreed to a temporary ceasefire proposal from mediators....
Uganda said it would accept some migrants deported from the US, but not those with criminal records. The Trump administration earlier deported migrants to the third countries of Eswatini and South Sud...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that he had ordered immediate negotiations aimed at freeing all the remaining hostages in Gaza....
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says it rejects "any step that would undermine what remains of the health system"....
In its 323-page ruling, the New York judges stated that the fine was excessive, and likely violated the US Constitution....
Geneva, Istanbul and Budapest have been put forward as potential locations - but bilateral talks still remain a long way off....
Russia is using “sexual torture” against civilians as part of a “deliberate and systematic policy” of intimidation in areas of Ukraine seized in Moscow’s invasion, United Nations experts said on Thurs...
Fast-food giant postpones "One Piece" trading card promotion after Pokémon giveaway led to bulk-buying and cards sold online....
Governments from 27 countries, including France and Germany, say journalists in Gaza must be protected....
Greta Thunberg and more than 100 more climate activists blocked Oslo’s main avenue and a bank branch on Thursday to demand Norway shutter its oil industry, police and organisers said....
Russia is using "sexual torture" against civilians as part of a "deliberate and systematic policy" of intimidation in areas of Ukraine seized in Moscow's invasion, United Nati...
New Zealand’s spy service warned that China is the most active power engaging in foreign interference in the country, sparking a sharp rebuke from Beijing....
Police say they found a letter on the former Brazilian president's phone requesting asylum in Argentina....
German prosecutors say the man was in a group that planted explosives in the Baltic Sea....
Texas lawmakers passed a new congressional district map intended to flip five Democratic-held US House seats to Republican control in next year’s midterm elections....
Frank Caprio, a US judge who became an internet sensation for his compassion and courteous demeanor in court, has died at 88, his family announced on social media....
The raffle winners have AI-sounding names like Hobby Dynamics and Noble Beer, social media users say....
Ukrainian officials say the attacks included drones, hypersonic, ballistic, and cruise missiles....
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, after Israel announced the first steps of an operation to take over Gaza City....
Delta and United are being sued over allegedly charging extra for seats next to a blank walls....
Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounces the court as "an instrument of lawfare" against the US and Israel....
The US celebrity judge and social media star has been remembered for his "unique brand of compassion"....
Guterres called for the unconditional release of hostages held by Hamas....
He is found guilty of selling details about warships' locations and weapons to a Chinese spy for $12,000....
A man police believed was killed by a bear had in fact been stabbed to death by his son, they say....
The visit to Lhasa suggests a desire to stamp the Chinese leader's authority over the region....
A US judge said that the Trump administration is in a better position than federal courts to release materials that would satisfy public curiosity about the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Eps...
The Japanese technology giant cited economic challenges as it raised prices for the consoles by around $50....
Facing opposition from Democrats who fled the state to stall the vote, Republicans hope the new maps will lead to more seats in Congress....
Call-up letters have gone out to 60,000 reservists to bolster an operation which is expected to last until next year....
Israel has “work” to do in winning over young people in the West as polls show collapsing support, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted to a UK-based podcast in an interview aired on Wednesday....
The Palestinian Authority says the decision is illegal and will "destroy" the prospects for a two-state solution....
Maduro was announced the winner of the July 2024 Presidential election...
Britain’s government was considering on Wednesday whether to appeal a court ruling blocking the housing of asylum seekers in a flashpoint hotel, as it scrambled to come up with contingency plans for t...
Armed men have stormed a mosque in Nigeria’s Katsina state during morning prayers, killing at least a dozen people. Officials say the assault may have been a reprisal following earlier clashes....
The director of national Intelligence accuses the officials, who served under Biden and Obama, of politicising intelligence for partisan or personal gain....
The government hopes abolishing the sales tax will encourage more people to buy books....
Marla-Svenja Liebich was sentenced two years ago to a total of one year and six months in prison without parole....
A passer-by led French police to the grim discovery at the foot of a bridge south-east of Paris....
Using black paint to make the entire US-Mexico border wall hotter and harder to climb was reportedly Trump's idea....
Billionaire Elon Musk is quietly putting the brakes on plans to start his new political party, telling allies he wants to focus on his companies, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, citing people...
The island has issued visitor guidelines for the first time as it sees an increasing number of tourists....
US President Donald Trump suggested he would pressure the Smithsonian Institution - a premier museum, education and research complex for US history and culture - to accept his demands, just like he di...
It took two days to move the church in Sweden's Kiruna, which was at risk at risk from ground subsidence....
Japan hosted African leaders on Wednesday for a three-day development conference, offering itself as an alternative to China as the continent reels from a debt crisis exacerbated by Western aid cuts,...
The man was fighting fires that have spread through the country as Europe battles heatwaves....
The incident saw the partial evacuation of the terminal and may have a knock-on effect on departures....
The military says troops are already operating in some areas ahead of the planned operation to occupy all of the city....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticised both Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and French President Emmanuel Macron over the recognition of a Palestinian state....
At least 17 children were among those killed after the bus crashed and caught fire on its way to Kabul....
Israel’s defence minister has approved a plan for the conquest of Gaza City and authorised the call-up of around 60 000 reservists to carry it out, his ministry confirmed....
Tom Phillips and his children have been missing since 2021 in a case that has gripped New Zealand....
Nearly 600 people were rescued from a stalled monorail system and 350 others have been shifted to shelters....
US President Donald Trump said he had ruled out putting US troops on the ground in Ukraine, but said the US might provide air support as part of a deal to end Russia’s war in the country....
Australia announced that it was going to recognise a Palestinian state at the UNGA in September....
US consumers are being advised to throw away shrimp with the supermarket's Great Value label....
Uganda and Honduras have agreed to accept migrants of other nationalities who have been deported from the US, CBS reports....
A senior Israeli official said the government stood firm on its call for the release of all hostages in any future Gaza ceasefire deal, after Hamas accepted a new truce proposal....
Police have not given a motive for the killings in a large peaceful region of central Mexico....
Shenghua Wen received around $2m (£1.5m) from North Korean officials to ship weapons from California....
Meetings in Alaska and Washington were high on pomp and low on breakthroughs, but there were two potentially significant developments....
The US president conceded the war in Ukraine was "tough to solve" after several days of high-level talks....
Guterres says humanitarian workers are a lifeline for over 300 million people caught in conflict...
Israel tells that 50 hostages remain in Gaza and 20 of them are still alive....
Relations between the two countries have frayed since Australia said it planned to recognise a Palestinian state....
Elisabeth, 23-year-old heir to the Belgian throne, will be able to continue her studies at Harvard University, her spokespeople said, after she was caught up in a US government move to bar internation...
Ukraine's leader has taken issue with the American map, because of the amount of control it gives Russia....
Trump said he believed Putin's course of action would become clear in the next couple of weeks....
Eemeli Peltonen's sudden death shocks Finland, with politicians on all sides expressing their sadness....
At least three more people have died in heavy rains in northern China, state media said, taking to 13 the death toll in recent storms across the region, with five still missing and no let-up in rain f...
The 42-year-old allegedly also concealed drugs in her underwear, police said....
Russia on Tuesday returned the bodies of what it said were 1 000 Ukrainian soldiers, five of whom died while in captivity, a Ukrainian government agency said....
The Thai king’s eldest daughter, gravely ill in hospital for more than two years, is receiving “continuous” treatment to stabilise her blood pressure because of a severe infection, the palace said....
With great fanfare, a historic red wooden church considered one of Sweden’s most beautiful buildings began its slow move from its home in the Arctic town of Kiruna to allow the expansion of Europe’s b...
Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska has thanked US First Lady Melania Trump for imploring Vladimir Putin to protect children....