Lawyers for Tennessee said Meta researchers repeatedly warned company executives that some teenagers were using Instagram compulsively, contributing to eating...
- The Houthis said on Telegram that a "Yemeni missile strike" had sparked fires in Jizan. Saudi authorities did not immediately...
Other countries newly subjected to the full travel ban came from some of Africa's poorest countries -- Burkina Faso, Mali,...The Trump administration has promised to let in athletes for football's signature competition, but has made no such promises for fans of blacklisted countries.
Global Refuge, a Christian-based group that supports refugees, warned that the travel ban would push vulnerable people further into harm's way.
In its annual report on the coal industry, the International Energy Agency said demand was on course to rise by...China and India are usually the main drivers of growth in coal consumption as the two emerging economies race to meet rising demand for electricity.
The IEA sees demand in China, the top coal consuming nation, decreasing somewhat over the next five years.
- The Israeli army is to demolish 25 residential buildings in the north West Bank's Nur Shams refugee camp later this...
In early 2025, Israel's military launched an operation it says is aimed at rooting out Palestinian armed groups from refugee camps
During the operation, Israel has destroyed hundreds of houses in the dense network of alleys that make up the refugee camps
- Kyiv's negotiator Rustem Umerov wrote on social media that the marathon diplomacy in the German capital had been "constructive and...
Ukraine hopes to convince Washington that a ceasefire must be agreed without prior territorial concessions to Russia
Trump has pushed strongly for an end to the war but an initial 28-point plan last month was seen as favouring Moscow's position
- Police declared the shooting a "terrorist incident" and said they had found suspected "improvised explosive devices" in a vehicle near...
The shooting took place during an anncual "Hanukkah by the Sea" event at Bondi Beach which police said was attended by over a thousand people
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Australia's government of having fuelled anti-Jewish sentiment in the period leading up to the shooting
US President Donald Trump's special envoy will meet with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders in Berlin this weekend,...Ukrainian officials said they recently sent Washington an updated plan building on Trump's original 28-point peace proposal to end the war
Trump's plan, publicly revealed last month, was accused of echoing Moscow's key demands, including Ukraine giving up crucial territory to Russia
Speaking on the sidelines of a summit in Turkmenistan, Erdogan told Putin that efforts to end the war were valuable,...Erdogan's remarks came on the heels of several attacks on Russia-linked tankers in the Black Sea, some of which were drone attacks claimed by Kyiv
The attacks sparked harsh criticism from Ankara, which summoned envoys from both Russia and Ukraine, warning the strikes amounted to a "worrying escalation."
- Israel said Thursday that Hamas "will be disarmed" as part of the US-sponsored peace plan for Gaza, after a top...
Top Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told Qatari news channel Al Jazeera that the militant group is open to a weapons "freeze", but rejects the demand for total disarmament
Shosh Bedrosian, spokeswoman for the Israeli prime minister's office, said "Israel will continue to follow the 20-point plan. There will be no Hamas inside of the Gaza Strip."
- A top Hamas leader told Qatari news channel Al Jazeera on Wednesday that the militant group is open to a...
"This is the idea we're discussing with the mediators, and I believe that with pragmatic American thinking... such a vision could be agreed," top Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said
As for the international peacekeeping force, Meshaal said the group was open to its deployment along Gaza's border with Israel, but was against its operation inside Gaza
- The compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem has been empty of UNRWA staff since January, when the law banning its operations...
"Today in the early morning, Israeli police accompanied by municipal officials forcibly entered the UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem," Philippe Lazzarini said on X
Lazzarini has been declared persona non grata by Israeli authorities, who banned his agency from operating inside the country early this year
