A diplomatic celebration of African unity in Canberra, Australia, has degenerated into an undiplomatic altercation, with officials from the Moroccan e...[Read More]
South Africa has issued blanket diplomatic immunity to all leaders attending an August summit, meaning Vladimir Putin might be able to travel to Johan...[Read More]
The US may restrict visas issued to Ugandan officials in its latest condemnation to the African country’s enactment of stringent – and highly controve...[Read More]
Gunshots and artillery fire have rocked the Sudanese capital on the last day of a frequently breached ceasefire, as calls to arms stoked fears the six...[Read More]
The human cost of El Salvador’s controversial “war on gangs” has been laid bare in a new report which claims dozens of prisoners were tortured and kil...[Read More]
Emmanuel Macron is to make a diplomatic push to reassure central and eastern European countries that France understands that the continent’s security ...[Read More]
The partner of a British tourist who died when he was struck by lightning while paddleboarding off Rhodes had beseeched him to return to shore when th...[Read More]
Kosovo’s prime minister has blamed violence in the north of the country on “fascist mobs” controlled by the government of neighbouring Serbia, and sai...[Read More]
Asian Americans do not have adequate access to information about how to obtain an abortion, according to a new report. Cultural stigmas against conver...[Read More]
Speaking 125 years after the US supreme court settled the issue of birthright citizenship, former president Donald Trump pledged once again to end it....[Read More]
An Arby’s manager “beat her hands bloody trying to escape or get someone’s attention” before she died locked inside a freezer at one of the fast-food ...[Read More]
The bipartisan debt ceiling deal brokered by Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy passed an important hurdle Tuesday evening, advancing to the full House of R...[Read More]
Five people remain unaccounted for after part of an apartment building collapsed in Davenport, Iowa, over the weekend, officials said Tuesday. The rem...[Read More]
NATO peacekeeping soldiers have formed security cordons around four town halls in Kosovo to keep back Serbs protesting against ethnic Albanian mayors ...[Read More]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has assented to an anti-homosexuality law, the speaker of the country’s parliament said on Monday. The approval of t...[Read More]
Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s prime minister, has called an early general election for July 23 after his party suffered a significant setback in local and re...[Read More]
There is open debate within the party over whether 89-year-old Senator Dianne Feinstein, whose health and cognitive abilities have come into question ...[Read More]
Texas is challenging federal control of policy on the US-Mexico border by exploiting what it sees as a constitutional loophole around the definition o...[Read More]
US president Joe Biden has said a bipartisan deal to raise the $31.4tn US debt ceiling and avoid a default is ready to move to Congress and urged lawm...[Read More]
Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy have reached an agreement to lift the US debt ceiling and avoid a disastrous and unprecedented default. Prior to the deta...[Read More]
Authorities believe they found the body of a convicted killer who escaped an Ohio prison by hiding in a trash container, they said Sunday. The search ...[Read More]
The US is at an increased risk of domestic terror attacks by rightwing “lone wolf” actors, experts have warned, as inflammatory Republican rhetoric ar...[Read More]
The FBI has more than doubled reward money in an effort to catch a Chicago man accused of killing his wife just hours after they got married more than...[Read More]
A Kentucky man made an emergency stop at a gas station with just $40 in his pocket. Spending all his cash, he left with $20 worth of fuel in his tank ...[Read More]
Search crews are looking for a missing American teenager who went overboard during a sunset cruise in the Bahamas, authorities said. Cameron Robbins, ...[Read More]
The number of Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 has fallen to a new record low nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. ...[Read More]
Washington — Indiana’s medical licensing board on Thursday issued a letter of reprimand and levied a fine against the obstetrician-gynecologist ...[Read More]
South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions at around six weeks will not yet go into effect, after a judge temporarily halted its implementa...[Read More]
Kharkiv, Ukraine — Major cities across Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv, were targeted yet again by Russian cruise missiles and drones in the early...[Read More]
In a stark reminder of the growing threat of financial scams, Deborah Moss, owner of a small catering business, found herself ensnared in a sophistica...[Read More]
Lawmakers exchanged sharp criticism about who was to blame for the protracted standoff over the debt ceiling on Wednesday. As the country nears its de...[Read More]
Democrats in the House chamber burst into raucous laughter when Marjorie Taylor Greene called for “decorum”. The far-right Georgia Republican, controv...[Read More]
The parent behind Amanda Gorman’s poem ban in a Florida school appears to have attended Proud Boys rallies and has previously posted antisemitic memes...[Read More]
Joe Biden and Republican lawmakers on Thursday appeared to be nearing a deal to cut spending and raise the debt ceiling, with little time to spare to ...[Read More]
The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, teetered on the brink of impeachment Thursday after years of scandal, criminal charges and corruption accusati...[Read More]
Joe Biden’s senior advisers have acknowledged countries in the Indo-Pacific don’t want to be “trampled by a headlong clash” between the US and China. ...[Read More]
Lawyers for Harlan Crow, the rightwing billionaire whose friendship with and gifts to the conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas are the f...[Read More]
The Los Angeles Dodgers announced that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a well-known San Francisco order of queer and trans “nuns” that has existe...[Read More]
Family members of a California man said it was no surprise his final act was one of compassion, after he exited his car at a busy intersection in orde...[Read More]
⚫ Moscow claims to have repelled an attack led by Ukraine-aligned militias that led to a series of chaotic battles in Russia’s Belgorod region, which ...[Read More]
EU countries have provided 220,000 artillery shells and 1,300 missiles to Ukraine since March, its foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said, as m...[Read More]
Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers in Malawi have been forcibly relocated from the capital, Lilongwe, to an overcrowded government camp. Over the...[Read More]
Virgin Orbit, the satellite launch company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, will permanently cease operations, just months after a majo...[Read More]
Britain has recorded the sharpest fall in inflation since the cost of living crisis began, with a drop in the annual rate to 8.7%, but food prices con...[Read More]
Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees, many of them children, who have crossed the border into Chad risk a “major humanitarian disaster” when the rai...[Read More]
The frontrunners of the ChatGPT developer OpenAI are calling for the regulation of “superintelligent” AIs, stressing that an equivalent to the Interna...[Read More]
A key witness of the Republicans is facing questions over whether he lied under oath about collecting financial support from an ally of ex US presiden...[Read More]
US presidential aspirant, Tim Scott formally launched his presidential campaign on Monday, joining a growing field of Republican candidates looking to...[Read More]
A search party have discovered the remains of a four-year-old boy in a surging California river on Monday, a day after his eight-year-old sister lost ...[Read More]
Kevin McCarthy, House speaker of the United States and president Joe Biden have said they had a “productive” deliberation on the debt ceiling late on ...[Read More]