Biden’s personal attorney, Bob Bauer, said in a statement that the search was planned and conducted with the president’s “full support and cooperation.”

Executions in Saudi Arabia have nearly doubled under King Salman and his son, de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman, activist groups said yesterday, detailing cases of torture and other human rights violations.

Half a million workers went on strike in Britain on Wednesday, calling for higher wages in the largest such walkout in over a decade, closing schools and severely disrupting transport.

President Joe Biden's administration on Monday said it will end COVID-19 emergency declarations on May 11, nearly three years after the United States imposed sweeping pandemic measures to curb the spread of the illness.

President Joe Biden said the United States would not provide F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as demanded by Kyiv, which insists it needs those to be better able to drive Russian forces from occupied territories.

An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of over 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran’s main landmarks in a video seen as a symbol of defiance against the regime, activists said yesterday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shuttled from Israel to the Palestinians’ West Bank yesterday, appealing for an end to resurgent violence and reaffirming Washington’s backing for a two-state solution to the decades-long conflict.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday expressed his sorrow for "innocent" Palestinians killed in a spike of violence in the occupied West Bank, after meeting Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.

Striking workers disrupted French refinery deliveries, public transport and schools today, in a second day of nationwide protests over President Emmanuel Macron's plan to make people work longer before retirement.

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All countries remain “dangerously unprepared” for the next pandemic, the Red Cross warned yesterday, saying future health crises could also collide with increasingly likely climate-related disasters.

A total of 10 people were killed in a series of drone strikes targeting pro-Iran factions in eastern Syria, including three dead in strikes yesterday, a war monitor said.

A tiger escaped from a private property in Johannesburg yesterday, just weeks after another went on the loose near the city, reigniting calls for stricter regulations on keeping wild animals.

The fight against global warming should not be at the expense of economic growth, the UAE oil chief who will lead this year’s UN climate talks said yesterday.

A top Republican in the US Congress said on Sunday the odds of conflict with China over Taiwan “are very high” after a US general caused consternation with a memo that warned that the United States would fight China in the next two years.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday he would urge Israelis and Palestinians to calm tensions as he visits the middle-east during the worst violence in years, and reaffirmed a long-stalled peace vision as the “only path” forward.

Russian forces claimed incremental gains in eastern Ukraine yesterday adding up to their biggest advances in months, after relentless battles that Kyiv described as human wave attacks which showed Moscow had no regard for the lives of its own men.

A series of unclaimed drone strikes on pro-Iran factions in war-torn Syria killed 11 people and destroyed trucks carrying Iranian arms from Iraq, a war monitor said Monday.

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian driver in the occupied West Bank Monday, officials on both sides said, with the army saying the car had hit a soldier's leg before speeding off...Nassim Naif Salman Abu Fouda, 26, died from "a bullet wound to the head fired by the occupation (Israe

British consumer goods group Unilever on Monday named Hein Schumacher, the current head of Dutch dairy and nutrition firm Royal FrieslandCampina, as its new chief executive.