The US government yesterday entered a partial shutdown as a midnight funding deadline passed without Congress approving a 2026 budget, though disruption was expected to be limited with the House set to move early next week to ratify a Senate-backed deal.

Ukraine’s power grid experienced mass outages yesterday after a “technical malfunction” caused electrical lines between Moldova, Romania and Ukraine to fail, Ukraine’s energy minister said.

Cubans from all walks of life are hunkering into survival mode, navigating lengthening blackouts and soaring prices for food, fuel and transport as the US threatens a stranglehold on the communist-run nation.

Turkey will not join a mutual defence pact between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, a source close to the Saudi military told AFP yesterday, after a Turkish official said earlier this month that they had entered talks aimed at entering the alliance.

France plans to impose stricter limits on the acceptable level of a toxin called cereulide in infant formula after potentially contaminated products were recalled over 60 countries.

Israeli air strikes killed 32 people, including children, in Gaza yesterday, according to the Palestinian territory’s civil defence agency, as the military said it had attacked in response to a Hamas ceasefire violation.

Mass detentions, crimes against humanity mark fifth anniversary of coup

The US, Israeli and European leaders tried to "provoke, create division, and supplied resources, drawing some innocent people into this movement," Pezeshkian said in a live state TV broadcast.

The Gaza health ministry publishes names and ages of those it records as killed.

Beijing says it is "willing to strengthen cooperation with all countries"

Venezuela routinely arrested foreigners on spying, attack plotting charges

"Large armada" heading toward Iran, Trump says

State can reduce royalties for larger projects, cut taxes at discretion

The discussion about the woman appears in some of the millions of new pages released Friday by the US Justice Department, as well as an apparent exchange weeks later about an invitation to Buckingham Palace

The US government entered a partial shutdown Saturday as a midnight funding deadline passed without Congress approving a 2026 budget

The proposed law could affect hundreds of detainees who remain behind bars in the South American country, as well as former prisoners who have already been conditionally released.

Forecasters expect the storm to push down from the Appalachians and across the Carolinas, southern Virginia, and parts of Georgia on Saturday night

The State Department said it green-lighted a $3.8-billion sale of 30 Apache attack helicopters to Israel, which has agreed to a fragile ceasefire in Gaza

White House played no role in the review of the extensive files related to the convicted sex offender, a former friend of Trump, deputy attorney general says

Thousands demonstrate in Minnesota and across US to protest ICE