A strike on the most advanced air defence system Iran possesses and uses to protect its nuclear sites sends a message, experts say.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s latest effort to send some migrants to Rwanda finally won approval from parliament early Tuesday, hours after he pledged deportation flights would begin in July.
In a phone call on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked US President Joe Biden for unblocking US$61 billion in military aid. US Senate is to take up the measure on Tuesday.
Henry Van Thio, who served in elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and continued in position after she was ousted by military in 2021, is stepping down for unspecified health reasons, state media reported.
The king has repeatedly said he has no plans to abdicate, unlike his second cousin Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, who stepped down earlier this year.
The British prime minister’s pledge comes as he promised to end the parliamentary deadlock over a key policy promise before an election expected later this year.
Major General Aharon Haliva is the first high-ranking official to step down for failing to prevent the attack that shocked Israel and the international community.
Ecuador’s fledgling president got a resounding victory in a referendum that he touted as a way to crack down on criminal gangs behind a spiralling wave of violence.
New scientific analysis details impacts of climate change in Europe, where temperatures are running at 2.3 degrees above pre-industrial levels, compared to 1.3 degrees higher globally.
An eclipse is when the moon is in front of the sun and blocks it.
Terry Anderson was snatched by Islamist militants in war-torn Lebanon in 1985. He was chained and blindfolded during long stretches of his almost seven years in captivity.
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Thousands of spectators looked on as the car rammed into a crowd of spectators and race officials during a race in the town of Diyatalawa. Three of the injured were in critical condition.
Ukraine says its soldiers will benefit from the aid package as Western leaders laud the US move, noting it will help ‘make us all safer’.
Revelation that World Anti-Doping Agency knew 23 Chinese swimmers failed drugs test before the Tokyo Olympics, but let them compete anyway, has sparked fury in US.
A long-delayed US$61 billion in funding for Kyiv’s forces has cleared the House but still needs a vote in the Senate.
The SH-60K reconnaissance helicopters carrying a total of eight crew lost contact near Torishima island, about 600km south of Tokyo.
USC said it was ‘redesigning’ the entire commencement programme days after the school decided to disallow valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s speech at the May 10 event.
Shanghai International Circuit has only recently been resurfaced and world champion Max Verstappen says it is ‘like driving on ice’.
Ukraine said that, for the first time since Russia’s invasion, it had downed a Russian long-range bomber used to fire cruise missiles at its cities.
Nato partner bid comes at a time when the right-wing government of President Javier Milei aims to boost ties with Western powers and attract investment.
Andrew Malkinson, 58, had his conviction quashed last July by appeal court after DNA evidence linked another suspect to the rape. Malkinson said that while he felt vindicated, apology is ‘too little too late’.
Four years after Harry and his wife Meghan moved to California, a travel company he controls filed paperwork this week telling UK authorities that he is now ‘usually resident’ in the US.
Police charged Peter Murrell with embezzlement of funds from Sturgeon’s pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP), the BBC and other media reported on Thursday.
Poland’s National Prosecutor said the man, arrested on Wednesday, was accused of being prepared to pass airport security information to Russian agents.
Donald Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of a scheme to conceal a US$130,000 pay-off made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
The US and UK on Thursday imposed a new round of sanctions on Iran as concern grows that Tehran’s unprecedented attack on Israel could fuel a wider war in the Middle East.
French construction worker Damien Guerot’s work visa was due to expire in July until PM Anthony Albanese intervened with an invitation to settle in Australia.
The bill boosts background checks for private sales of guns and make it a crime to recklessly sell a gun to someone who is prohibited from having guns.
The former US president hosted Poland’s Andrzej Duda for dinner at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
