Israel's war cabinet has discussed the next steps for negotiations towards a hostage deal and ceasefire in its war with Hamas, as concern deepens over...

French President Emmanuel Macron spent the entire day at the annual agricultural fair Saturday, as angry farmers heckled him and scuffled with police....

The World Meteorological Organisation confirmed on Tuesday that continental Europe recorded in 2021 its highest ever temperature of 48.8 degrees Celsi...

Japan said it is joining other countries in suspending funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees following Israeli charges that some UNRWA sta...

Talks are being held on a "very significant" pause in the Middle East conflict to win the release of dozens of hostages taken by Palestinian militant...

A-list Hollywood celebrities including Cate Blanchett, Joaquin Phoenix, Ramy Youssef and Andrew Garfield penned a letter to US President Joe Biden on...

Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan's Punjab province, emergency services said on Wednesday.Several hundred vi...

Greek firefighters on Wednesday struggled to contained uncontrolled fires throughout the country for a fifth day, several of them bordering an acrid,...

Around 2,000 penguins have appeared dead on the coast of eastern Uruguay in the last 10 days, and the cause, which does not appear to be avian influen...

Tunisian rights groups called on Friday for emergency aid and shelters for migrants expelled from Sfax last week, as dozens of people protested in Tun...

Plans to discharge treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant cleared their last regulatory hurdle in Japan on Friday, as China said it would ban...

Equity markets sank Wednesday as another round of data showed China's economy continued to struggle in June, with little hope that its leaders can unv...

Hopes that lawmakers are edging closer to a deal to hike the US debt ceiling lifted spirits on trading floors Friday, though investors remain nervous...

A long-range Chinese combat drone capable of carrying a large weapons payload has circled Taiwan, the island's defence ministry said Friday.Democratic...

France's top constitutional court is on Friday to decide whether it approves President Emmanuel Macron's contentious pensions reform after months of p...

Authorities on Friday urged people in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai to stay indoors and work from home as air pollution spiked to hazardous lev...

Elon Musk on Friday defended his controversial pay model for Twitter, claiming that any social media platform that didn't follow suit would fail becau...

The 7.8- and 7.5-magnitude quakes that struck Syria and Turkey had no impact on the grain deal initiative co-brokered by Ankara and the United Nations...

There have been many local and international initiatives aimed at restoring civilian rule and completing the democratic transition in Sudan. Perhaps t...

Western US states were bracing for yet more torrid weather Friday and into the weekend as so-called atmospheric rivers lined up to dump heavy rain and...

The political situation in Iraq worsened when Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on August 29 quit political life in protest against the failure of forming...

Tensions renewed in Ethiopia after the exchange of accusations between the government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). The internation...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused Washington of seeking to prolong the conflict in Ukraine and of fuelling conflicts elsewhere in th...

Several reports have shed light on a recent phenomenon among the Oromo people, Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, with a rising number of them giving up...