An attack in eastern Syria killed 12 oil field workers, a war monitor said yesterday, a day after Syrian Kurdish-led forces announced an offensive against jihadists.

The death toll from a fierce winter storm that gripped much of the United States over Christmas rose to at least 61 on Thursday, officials said.

US President Joe Biden, France’s Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will not be receiving New Year’s greetings from Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said yesterday.

President Joe Biden on Thursday signed off on a $1.7 trillion spending bill that will keep the US government funded through the next fiscal year -- notably including another big package for Ukraine’s war effort.

A Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives committee released six years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to the public on Friday in an extraordinary move days before Republicans are due to take control of the chamber..Release of Trump's redacted returns for 2015 th

Russian leader Vladimir Putin told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday he was keen to ramp up military cooperation and hailed the two countries' efforts to counter Western influence.

Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis published by Reporters Without Borders.

Residents of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv were urged to head to air raid shelters early on Friday as sirens wailed across the city, a day after Russia carried out the biggest aerial assault since it started the war in February.

New York's first legal recreational marijuana dispensary opened on Thursday in the heart of Manhattan.

Vivienne Westwood died "peacefully and surrounded" by her family her fashion house said on Thursday. She was 81.."The world needs people like Vivienne to make a change for the better," her fashion house said on Instagram.."She led an amazing life. Her innovation and impact over the l

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Armed raids in a region of South Sudan plagued by ethnic clashes have forced around 30,000 civilians to flee their homes, the UN’s emergency response agency said yesterday as international partners demanded an end to the violence.

Russia fired scores of missiles into Ukraine early yesterday, targetting Kyiv, the northeastern city of Kharkiv, and other cities in a massive aerial bombardment that sent people rushing to shelters and knocked out power, Ukrainian authorities said.

Belarus said a Ukrainian missile fell on its territory yesterday, raising fears of the conflict spilling over, with the Moscow ally sending investigators to establish the cause of the incident.

Twitter users around the world reported errors accessing it for several hours, web monitors said Wednesday, in one of the biggest outages since Elon Musk bought the platform.

Iran’s army was set to begin military exercises in strategic southern regions east of the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, state news agency IRNA reported.

The US State Department approved on Wednesday the $180 million sale of vehicle-launched anti-tank systems to Taiwan, the Pentagon said,

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks by video link with Chinese leader Xi Jinping today, the Kremlin said, as Russia seeks to bolster

As many as 10 people have died in a fire at a Cambodian hotel-casino on the border of Thailand, with photos showing groups desperately huddled on ledges as fierce flames surround them.

Uzbekistan's health ministry has said at least 18 children have died after consuming a medicinal syrup manufactured by Indian drugmaker Marion Biotech Pvt Ltd.