Residents of Marrakech, the nearest big city to the epicentre, said some buildings had collapsed in the old city, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Local television showed pictures of a fallen mosque minaret with rubble lying on smashed cars.

Elon Musk said he refuseda Ukrainian request to activate his Starlink satellite networkin Crimea's port city of Sevastopol last year to aid an attackon Russia's fleet there, saying he feared complicity in a “major” act of war

Tunisia’s journalists’ syndicate yesterday denounced state censorship of mass media and said authorities have “repressed” freedoms in the country reeling under a political and economic crisis.

Hong Kong was flooded by the heaviest rainfall in nearly 140 years yesterday, leaving the city’s streets and some subway stations under water and forcing its schools to close.

Leaders of the world’s richest and most powerful countries will attend the two-day G20 Summit in India’s capital New Delhi starting today. This is the first time India will host such a powerful group of world leaders.

The world is perilously off course in meeting the Paris climate deal’s goals for slashing carbon pollution and boosting finance for the developing world, according to the UN’s first progress report on the accord.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday he would be willing to testify in an enquiry into allegations of foreign meddling by China, Russia and other countries in two elections won by his party.

Ukraine yesterday said four people were killed and dozens injured as Russia launched a new wave of air strikes in the centre and east of the country.

A Georgia grand jury recommended criminal charges against three Republican US senators and other allies of Donald Trump as part of its investigation into efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 presidential defeat, according to a report released yesterday.

A disgraced Turkish crypto founder who fled to Albania and his two brothers have been sentenced to 11,196 years in jail each, the Anadolu state news agency reported Friday..Prosecutors had asked for Thodex boss Faruk Fatih Ozer, 29, to be sentenced to 40,562 years in prison for money laund

Microsoft researchers said on Thursday they found what they believe is a network of fake, Chinese-controlled social media accounts seeking to influence US voters by using artificial intelligence

Hong Kong was flooded by the heaviest rainfall in nearly 140 years today, leaving the city's streets and some subway stations under water and forcing its schools to close

A Norwegian out walking on doctors’ advice unearthed rare sixth-century gold jewellery using a newly bought metal detector, a discovery archaeologists said yesterday was Norway’s “gold find of the century”.

Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg yesterday called for all sides to maintain calm in Kosovo after violence in May that wounded 93 peacekeepers.

The Lebanese army said yesterday it had prevented the entry of around 1,200 Syrians this week, at a time both countries are beset by painful economic woes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to fund research into artificial intelligence as competition with the West to develop such technology heats up, according to a Kremlin document published yesterday.

Armenia yesterday accused Azerbaijan of preparing a military provocation against its forces by concentrating troops along the arch-foes’ shared border and near the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.

The UN yesterday called for strict rules on the use of AI tools such as viral chatbot ChatGPT in classrooms, including limiting their use to older children.

A record number of children from Latin America and the Caribbean are leaving their homes in search of a better life, risking disease, injury and abuse, a United Nations children’s agency (Unicef) report said Wednesday, urging a stronger humanitarian response.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not planning to make a video address at the upcoming G20 summit in New Delhi this weekend, the Kremlin said yesterday. The meeting comes amid fraught relations between Moscow and the West over the conflict in