60,000 cross into Spanish territory of Ceuta, 34 die
Some 60,000 migrants have entered Spain’s Ceuta from Morocco in the past 24 hours, Ceuta’s president says. That is equivalent to 70pc of the city’s...
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Russia’s Africa corps kills mali civilians
Russian paramilitary group Africa Corps killed eight civilians, including three children, in Mali last month, Human Rights Watch said on Friday, during ?air strikes the...
Brazil SC authorises probe of Lula’s son
A justice of Brazil’s Supreme Court (SC) has authorized a police investigation of a son of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a judicial source...
Chile and Venezuela restore diplomatic relations
Chile said Thursday it was restoring diplomatic relations with Venezuela after severing ties with then-president Nicolas Maduro’s administration in 2024. In July of that year,...
Hamas agrees to deal for disarmament, Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza
Hamas said Friday it agreed to a deal to end the war with Israel that included provisions addressing its weapons and the gradual withdrawal of...
New intelligence body to meet in ‘den of spies’ Japan
Japan’s National Intelligence Bureau held its first meeting Friday, a body aimed at centralising information-gathering following claims that security weaknesses were making the country a...
US-backed Venezuela talks to begin without opposition leader Machado
US-backed negotiations between Venezuela’s interim government and a faction of the opposition will begin on Saturday, with the country’s most prominent opposition leader absent. The...
US-Iran clash enters new phase as Saudi joins strikes
The stop-start conflict between the United States and Iran appears to have entered a new phase, with Saudi Arabia publicly joining military action against Tehran-backed...
4 people die trying to cross Channel in small boats
Four people died trying to cross the Channel in small boats overnight, French officials have said.One man died after a vessel capsized off France’s northern...
IS claims killing of Taliban official in Afghanistan
A regional branch of the Islamic State group has claimed a rare deadly attack on a Taliban official in northeastern Afghanistan, a monitoring group said....
Fauci repeatedly invokes fifth in contentious senate hearing
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer dozens of questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about...
US military launches ‘powerful’ retaliatory strikes on Iran
The United States military launched “powerful” strikes on Iran on Thursday, in retaliation for Tehran’s attacks targeting US bases in Jordan as the Middle East...