Number of forcibly displaced people dips to 118m
The number of forcibly displaced people dropped for the first time in a decade last year, as more opted to return home despite often unsafe...
International
Iran warns Mideast truce ‘practically meaningless’ after US strikes
Iran warned on Thursday that the shaky ceasefire in the three-month Middle East war was now “practically meaningless” following fresh strikes by the United States...
Vance says Israeli PM has ‘gotten some things wrong’
US Vice President JD Vance acknowledged differences with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview excerpt released Wednesday, saying the Israeli leader had “gotten some...
UK Defence Secretary John resigns
British Defence Secretary John Healey resigned on Thursday, in a surprise move which he said was due to Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the finance...
Philippine town seeks immediate airlift of food to ease hunger
The mayor of a southern Philippine town that was devastated by a powerful earthquake pleaded Thursday for helicopters to transport food to stave off hunger...
Iran attacks Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan in retaliation for US strikes
President Donald Trump says Iran will “pay the price” for taking “too long to negotiate a deal”, after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed...
US inflation surges to three-year high of 4.2%
US prices in May rose at their fastest rate in three years, with inflation surging to 4.2%. The rise, from 3.8% a month earlier, was...
Inside Myanmar, rebels are losing ground as military forces men
The four young men in the rebel camp hidden deep in jungle-covered mountains never wanted a part in Myanmar’s civil war. They didn’t choose to...
Amnesty accuses Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’ of West Bank Bedouins
Amnesty International accused Israel on Wednesday of an “ethnic cleansing” campaign against Bedouin and herding communities in the occupied West Bank, saying the measures aimed...
Death toll from Philippines quake rises to 46
Rescuers in the southern Philippines pulled a body from the rubble of a collapsed supermarket on Wednesday, as the death toll from a major earthquake...
Trump says Iran ‘taken too long to negotiate’
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Iran has taken too long to negotiate a deal over the conflict in the Middle East and...
