Right-wing political scientist Laura Fernandez won Costa Rica’s presidential election on Sunday by a landslide, after promising to crack down on rising violence linked to the cocaine trade.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has ordered the start of nuclear talks with the United States, the news agency Fars reported yesterday.

Gaza’s key Rafah border crossing was reopened to Palestinians yesterday, an Israeli security official said, but Egyptian state-linked media said only 50 people would be allowed to cross in each direction in the early days.

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said that if the New START treaty expired with no replacement then the world should be alarmed that the biggest nuclear powers had no limits for probably the first time since early 1970s.

Accuses Israel and the US of having had a hand in riots

Says 2025 was one of the most difficult years in the organisation’s history

The proposal is an attempt to boost European industries in the face of cheaper imports from China, but has split EU countries

Platforms including Snapchat, Meta, TikTok and YouTube must stop underage users from holding accounts under the legislation, which came into effect on December 10

The Democratic Republic of Congo's government said on Sunday it feared "at least 200 dead" in a "massive" landslide that struck a militia-held mine in the country's east

Japan says the mission was the world's first bid to tap deep sea rare earths at such a depth.

The Washington National Opera recently announced it would leave the Kennedy Center

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Myanmar’s junta yesterday called for ex-civil servants who quit their jobs in protest over the coup five years ago to report back to work, pledging to remove absent state employees from “blacklists”.

Israel partially reopened the Rafah crossing between the devastated Gaza Strip and Egypt yesterday following months of urging from humanitarian organisations, though access is limited to the movement of people.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday warned of a “regional war” if the United States attacked following heavy military deployments by Washington in the Gulf.

Ukraine’s defence minister yesterday thanked Elon Musk after the US tycoon said efforts to stop Russia from using Starlink satellites for drone attacks seemed to have worked.

Andrew could not be reached for comment but has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing linked to Epstein

All of North and South Carolina, and portions of Georgia, eastern Tennessee and Kentucky, as well as southern Virginia were under a winter storm warning

Eight people were killed and 26 others injured in a bus accident in Antalya, a coastal tourist city in southern Turkey, the provincial governor said Sunday

Reuters reported on Friday that the United States has told Delhi it could soon resume purchases of Venezuelan oil to help replace imports of Russian oil, citing three people familiar with the matter.