Meta began laying off roughly 8,000 employees Wednesday -- about 10 percent of its global workforce -- as co-founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg pushes to redirect resources toward an ambitious artificial intelligence agenda

DRC and Uganda are fighting to contain a dramatic Ebola outbreak, which went unnoticed for a long time. Are US aid cuts to blame for the delayed crisis response?

Trump says he came within an hour of restarting the wa

Iran uses checkpoints, vetting, and selective fees to control Hormuz transit, IRGC central to process

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered Cubans a “new path” in a special video address yesterday hours before Washington was expected to criminally indict the island’s former leader Raul Castro.

The United States yesterday criminally indicted Cuba’s former leader Raul Castro, fueling speculation that President Donald Trump will try to topple the communist state.

Iran’s chief negotiator yesterday said the United States wanted to restart the Middle East war after President Donald Trump said he would attack again unless Tehran agreed to a peace deal.

The US special envoy to Greenland, the Arctic island coveted by President Donald Trump, fanned the Danish autonomous territory’s dreams of independence in an interview published yesterday during his visit to Nuuk.

The World Health Organization yesterday said the risk of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak was currently high at the national and regional levels but low worldwide.

EU lawmakers and member states reached a deal in the early hours of yesterday to implement the bloc’s nearly year-old trade pact with the US, with President Trump threatening new tariffs unless it is done by July 4.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took selfies at the Colosseum

Move comes as Mark Zuckerberg shifts focus to AI, with thousands reassigned and costs rising despite investor concerns

Russian leader seeks deeper energy cooperation and strategic backing from China as war in Ukraine and turmoil in the Middle East reshape global alliances

Iran claims new military gains and warns the next phase of conflict would bring “many more surprises”

The deal includes safeguards allowing the EU to suspend favourable tariff terms if Washington breaches its commitments

Two teenage gunmen opened fire on Monday at the Islamic Center of San Diego, California, killing a security guard and two other men outside the mosque before the suspects were found dead, apparently from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, police said.

Cuba’s leader warned Monday of a “bloodbath” in the event of an American attack, while the US Treasury sanctioned Cuba’s main intelligence agency and top leaders as tensions spiked between the arch-foes.

The World Health Organization (WHO) chief yesterday voiced concern about the “scale and speed” of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo which has killed an estimated 131 people.

The United States said Monday it had approved the sale of more than $4 billion in military helicopters to South Korea, which has vowed to buy more US weapons as it defends against the North.

Russia’s army yesterday began three days of nuclear weapons drills involving thousands of troops across the country, as Kyiv escalates its drone attacks and with President Vladimir Putin headed to China.