Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have handed over four women and 10 children to a Canadian delegation in readiness for their repatriation, a Kurdish official said.

The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that dengue and other diseases caused by mosquito-borne arboviruses were spreading far faster and further amid climate change, warning global outbreaks could be looming. Experts with the United

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the four most distant galaxies ever observed, one of which formed just 320 million years after the Big Bang when the universe was still in its infancy, new research said on Tuesday.

More than 400 migrants have been rescued from a boat off Malta after an 11-hour operation, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said yesterday after its ship responded to a distress alert. While heading to shelter in the Mediterranean due to bad weather,

Britain yesterday announced a plan to protect water supplies, amid a long-running scandal over privatised water firms pumping raw sewage into rivers and onto seashores.

A man was charged with terrorism Monday after he threatened one person with a knife and slit the throat of another who was seriously injured on a bus in western Canada, court documents said.

The Kremlin yesterday branded Finland’s Nato membership an “assault on our security” and said it would take countermeasures.

Around one in every six adults experiences infertility, the World Health Organization estimated yesterday as it called for an urgent increase in access to fertility care.

Finland will join Nato today, marking the completion of a swift journey into the military alliance for the Nordic nation following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, officials said.

Their power to dissolve the ozone layer shielding Earth from the Sun prompted a worldwide ban, but scientists yesterday revealed that some human-made chlorofluorocarbons have reached record levels, boosting climate-changing emissions.

Russia yesterday accused Ukraine of organising the murder of a prominent war blogger in a St Petersburg cafe and arrested a young Russian woman shown in a police video admitting planting the bomb that killed him and injured over 30 others.

UK passport office workers launched a five-week stoppage yesterday, the latest walkout in strike-hit Britain as the country reels from the worst cost of living crisis in a generation.

Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci led a violent campaign of murder and torture against opponents during the 1998-1999 independence war with Serbia, prosecutors told the start of his war crimes trial yesterday.

Mexico has recovered from the United States a giant stone statue known as an “Earth monster” that dates to the Olmec civilization before the Christian era, authorities said.

The European Union will guard against any abuse during Russia’s presidency of the United Nations Security Council during the month of April, the bloc’s foreign policy chief said.

Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman yesterday said the UK government was “in negotiations” after three British men were detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Four artificial intelligence experts have expressed concern after their work was cited in an open letter – co-signed by Elon Musk – demanding an urgent pause in research.

Russia said on Friday that if the United States threatened Moscow over its arrest of Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Evan Gershkovich, it would reap a “whirlwind”, the state-owned news agency RIA reported.

Italy’s privacy watchdog said yesterday it had blocked the controversial robot ChatGPT, saying the artificial intelligence app did not respect user data and could not verify users’ age.

President Vladimir Putin yesterday signed off on a new Russian foreign policy strategy aimed at curtailing Western “dominance” and identifying China and India