Clashes have killed 56 people during four days of fighting in South Sudan’s eastern Jonglei state, after youth from the Nuer community attacked

Storm-weary road crews and residents of western New York state struggled on Tuesday to dig out from a deadly weekend blizzard, with snow still falling and forecasts for rapid warming and rains that could cause flooding and turn the frozen landscape to slush.

Russian forces stepped up mortar and artillery attacks on the recently liberated city of Kherson in southern Ukraine yesterday, Ukraine’s military said, while also exerting constant pressure along front lines in eastern regions of the country.

A man in southern Senegal has set himself the ambitious task of planting five million trees over the next five years.

Australians will decide next year if the country’s constitution will be changed to give an institutional voice to the long-suffering Indigenous population, the government said yesterday.

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place for now a pandemic-era policy allowing U.S. officials to rapidly expel migrants caught at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Former Republican President Donald Trump’s redacted tax returns will be made public tomorrow, a spokesperson for the US House of

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recorded 17,831 civilian casualties in Ukraine as of December 26--6,884 killed and 10,947 injured--since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Storm-weary road crews and residents of western New York state struggled on Tuesday to dig out from a deadly weekend blizzard, with snow still falling and forecasts for rapid warming and rains that could cause flooding and turn the frozen landscape to slush..The region in and around Buffal

Seven people were killed and more than two dozen injured when a car ploughed into a popular carnival at Calabar in southeast Nigeria, the local head of highway security said.

Germany on Wednesday shrugged off Russia's ban on oil sales to countries and companies that comply with a price cap agreed by Western allies, saying it has "no practical significance".

The popular Chinese video app TikTok has been banned from all US House of Representatives-managed devices, according to the House's administration arm, mimicking a law soon to go into effect banning the app from US government devices.

The United States is considering placing new Covid-19 restrictions on arrivals from China, government officials said on Tuesday.

The UN refugee agency yesterday urged countries to help Rohingyas stranded at sea as at least 20 of the persecuted minority in Myanmar reportedly died and hundreds more landed in Indonesia after weeks adrift in the Indian Ocean.

Russian forces shelled and bombed towns and cities in eastern and southern Ukraine yesterday, a day after Russia’s foreign minister said Kyiv must accept Moscow’s demands for ending the war or else suffer defeat on the battlefield.

Israel’s parliament yesterday passed controversial legislation paving the way for the return of veteran hawk Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister.

The death toll from a gas tanker explosion in Johannesburg on Christmas Eve has climbed to 18, officials said on Tuesday, as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa promised to support people affected by the blast.

Protesting Serbs in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo erected new barricades on Tuesday, hours after Serbia said it had put its army on the highest combat alert following weeks of escalating tensions between Belgrade and Pristina.

For the energy industry, 2022 will be remembered as the year Russia's invasion of Ukraine accelerated a global energy crisis.

US emergency crews counted the grim costs of a colossal winter storm that brought Christmas chaos to millions, especially in hard-hit western New York, where the death toll reached 25 yesterday in what authorities described as a “war with mother nature.”