The US and other countries, fearing mass casualties, have tried to convince Israel not to attack Rafah. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says it’s necessary to defeat the last of Hamas’s battalions.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was being treated in intensive care after he was shot five times in what the government called a politically motivated assassination attempt.
A fire destroyed the Marywilska 44 shopping centre, home to some 1,400 shops or services in an industrial area on Warsaw’s northern edge. Hundreds of the businesses there were run by people from Vietnam.
If the British royal family was looking for a public relations win after Princess Catherine’s Photoshop fails, the unveiling of King Charles’ newest royal portrait was not it.
Britain’s food watchdog applied extra control measures on all spice imports from India, after contamination allegations against two brands sparked concerns among global food regulators.
The far-right Dutch populist Geert Wilders says he has agreed on a coalition government with three other right-of-centre parties nearly six months after the Netherlands held parliamentary elections.
Two brothers were arrested on US charges that they carried out a cutting-edge scheme to exploit the Ethereum blockchain’s integrity and steal cryptocurrency, in what prosecutors called a first-of-its-kind caper.
Was it guitar-hero time? Or a tone-deaf attempt at wartime solidarity? US Secretary of State Antony Blinken garnered some mixed reviews in the Ukrainian capital after busting out his ’80s-rock chops at a Kyiv bar.
The leader was due to visit Spain and Portugal, but the visits are on hold as Kyiv faces what analysts describe as one of its most perilous moments in the war.
Temu often fails to provide consumers with crucial information about the sellers on its platform and safety standards of products, according to the complaint.
Despite the pandemic being over, Covid-19 carries a 35 per cent higher risk of death in hospital patients, study finds.
Unprecedented logistics centre in Latin America financed by Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative is locked in a legal battle over its operation.
Three indigenous Kanak and a police official have been killed in the violence that broke out after an electoral reform bill was adopted by lawmakers in Paris.
The real estate mogul and former LA Dodgers owner says he’s putting together a consortium to buy the app from China-based ByteDance.
The bill would prevent federal agencies from contracting with five Chinese biotech companies – BGI Group, MGI, Complete Genomics, Wuxi AppTec, and Wuxi Biologics.
A visual guide to modern trench warfare, long-range weapons and the bloody stalemate between Ukraine and Russia.
A visual guide to how the South China Morning Post’s small graphics team creates world-class infographics that get noticed.
The Earth risks ‘dangerous and cascading effects’ of human-generated climate change if we fail to limit the global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Here’s what could happen if temperatures rise beyond that.
A visual guide to the Palestinian territory of Gaza and the war between Israel and Hamas, following the deadly October 7 attack.