Generous credit ratings are baking risks into China's booming bond market as Beijing attracts foreign issuers, S&P Global Ratings' Asia-Pacific ratings chief said on
September 03, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the size of the budget deficit, which grew by 40% from January to July this year to
September 03, 2026The El Niño weather phenomenon is set to intensify further into 2027 and could be the strongest ever, raising risks of extreme weather into next year, the
September 03, 2026Britain's King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla will host Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tariq at Windsor Castle for a state visit next month, Buckingham Palace said on
September 03, 2026The U.S. has dominated the women’s FIBA World Cup for nearly two decades, winning the last four titles
September 03, 2026With Japan tightening rules for foreign residents, some wonder if it’s time to say ‘sayonara’
September 03, 2026Russia's Transport Ministry said on Thursday that it has provided clarifications to foreign airlines about Russian airports' and airspace safety measures after Ukrainian
September 03, 2026For the first time in over three decades, Sri Lankan farmer A.M.
September 03, 2026Activity in Britain's dominant services sector grew for the second month in a row in August and confidence rose, according to a survey on Thursday that also showed more
September 03, 2026A'ja Wilson's stunning last-minute pull-out from the FIBA World Cup has afforded the world a sliver of hope against the dominant United States, as the global showpiece
September 03, 2026The Swiss economy grew by 1.5% in the second quarter of 2026, the government said on Thursday, its fastest growth rate in nearly five years.
September 03, 2026Oil prices hit fresh six-week highs on Thursday after new U.S. strikes on Iran and renewed Israeli threats against Tehran heightened concerns about
September 03, 2026Russians have experienced a summer of turmoil because of the war in Ukraine
September 03, 2026An Australian medical student whose partner went missing in the Nepal floods believes tech companies must do more to help find
September 03, 2026Russian air attacks wounded 17 people and damaged a 21-storey residential building in Ukraine's Black Sea port city of Odesa early on Thursday, Serhiy Lysak, the head of the city's
September 03, 2026China's Ministry of Natural Resources conducted a survey of waters east of Taiwan last month that it said would help it create "one map" for territorial planning
September 03, 2026Stormy weather can send the Pacific Ocean flooding into people's homes in small, remote island nations
September 03, 2026The Spanish city of Ceuta on the northern African coast normally celebrates its official holiday on Sept. 2
September 02, 2026China warned of flash floods in the southeastern province of Fujian while heavy rain trapped teachers and students in a compound in eastern Zhejiang as storms from Typhoon
September 03, 2026Nepal plans to rebuild an early-warning system for landslides on part of its border with China, installing seismic sensors, cameras and a satellite link,
September 02, 2026China's Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang told Russian President Vladimir Putin that prospects were "broad and promising" to strengthen cooperation on development in the far east,
September 03, 2026About 20 million internet-using children across 21 countries were subjected to sexual exploitation or abuse on digital platforms in a single year, with
September 03, 2026China’s President Xi Jinping visits Egypt this week for the first time in a decade
September 02, 2026President Donald Trump will now speak on both nights of the Republican Party's unusual midterm convention next week, a
September 03, 202660 targets struck, 18M barrels of oil protected: The US military’s record day in the Strait of Hormuz
September 03, 2026Elliott Investment Management has built a stake in Deutsche Telekom, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.
September 03, 2026The Japanese yen leaped against the dollar on Wednesday, its biggest rise since joint U.S.-Japanese intervention a month ago, while U.S.
September 03, 2026Stocks rose on Wall Street as gains by big technology companies and relatively steady oil prices and bond yields helped boost the market after a downbeat start to the week
September 02, 2026Russia vowed to head off any disruption to civil aviation on Wednesday after a warning by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that its drones had made
September 02, 2026President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the renewed U.S. campaign against Iran would not continue for "too long" after the biggest exchange of fire between Tehran
September 03, 2026Fears of renewed escalation gripped the Middle East on Wednesday after the United States and Iran exchanged their biggest barrage
September 02, 2026Iran retaliates after US strikes, defying Trump’s warning it could be hit ‘much harder’
September 01, 2026Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 3,000 people out of more than 6,100 confirmed cases
September 02, 2026Kennedy Center removes outdoor ‘Blue’ sculpture
September 02, 2026Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron join King Charles and Queen Camilla in private viewing of famed Bayeux Tapestry
September 03, 2026A Democratic U.S. senator has pressed Capital One Financial for details about an internal anti-money-laundering review that the bank said last month led it
September 02, 2026U.S.
September 02, 2026Stock indexes mostly rose on Wednesday after three days of declines as investors watched for new developments in the U.S.-Iran conflict, while the
September 02, 2026A crane removed the 24-foot (7-meter) sculpture "Blue" from the Kennedy Center grounds on Wednesday in the latest move to redesign Washington's public spaces under
September 02, 2026Apple has relabeled Lake Ontario to “Lake America” for U.S. users of its maps app, following competitor Google days after President Donald Trump ordered a new name for the body of water amid his escalating trade war with Canada
September 02, 2026The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has docked in Thailand after nearly nine months at sea supporting U.S. operations against Iran
September 02, 2026Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's lead over right-wing challenger Senator Flavio Bolsonaro narrowed further ahead of October's election, a Quaest poll
September 02, 2026The benchmark S&P 500 and the blue-chip Dow indexes opened marginally higher on Wednesday, as investors weighed renewed U.S.-Iran clashes against signs of strength in the AI trade.
September 02, 2026Tiger Woods will have his license suspended for five years after reaching a plea deal in his impaired-driving case on Wednesday that will allow the decorated
September 02, 2026The U.S. urges international partners to immediately stop "business as usual" operations with Nicaragua's government, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement
September 02, 2026The U.S. women’s national basketball team is short on practice time heading into a major competition where anything less than winning a gold medal is considered a failure
September 02, 2026Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech, who was accused of commissioning the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, was acquitted on
September 02, 2026King Charles and French President Emmanuel Macron visited on Wednesday the exhibition housing the historic Bayeux Tapestry, the nearly 1,000-year-old embroidery which
September 02, 2026For more than 20 years, Diane Hosker has lived on Trump Avenue in Ottawa’s leafy west end, a neighborhood with New York-themed street names including Central
September 02, 2026In closely contested House and Senate races, even a small shift in union votes could influence the outcome.
September 02, 2026Officials say Russian aerial attacks have killed two civilians and wounded six in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro
September 02, 2026Estonia's parliament elected constitutional lawyer Ulle Madise as the Baltic country's next president on Wednesday, making her the second woman to hold the largely
September 02, 2026After opening the door to higher interest rates last week, U.S.
September 02, 2026NATO member Turkey would consider taking its relations with the China and Russia-led security bloc, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, to a higher level, President
September 02, 2026Female Kurdish fighters who became global symbols of the fight against Islamic State are negotiating with Syria's new authorities to retain a
September 02, 2026The Chinese mavericks looking to buck the trends in American college basketball
September 02, 2026The attempted attack in Leipzig had all the hallmarks of state-sponsored terrorism, the European Union's foreign policy chief
September 02, 2026Video shows heavy rain and gusty winds in southeast Texas as Tropical Storm Edouard swept through the area. Edouard has weakened to a tropical depression after making landfall Tuesday afternoon near the border of Texas and Louisiana.
August 31, 2026South Korean foreign exchange authorities bought about $20 billion in U.S. dollars that SK Hynix sold after its $26.5 billion American depositary receipt
September 02, 2026The Indian government is facing fierce opposition on proposed food warning labels from both health experts and food giants - activists say many items will
September 02, 2026Greenland's Foreign Minister Mute Egede said on Wednesday that negotiations with the United States over the Arctic island's future were ongoing, but declined to give
September 02, 2026An explosion near a German train station followed by the discovery of a suspicious object caused police to temporarily close the transport hub in the southern city of Augsburg
September 02, 2026South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Wednesday that conditions should be created to resume dialogue between the United States and North Korea, according to the
September 02, 2026The number of deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak has surpassed 3,000, government data showed on Wednesday, as the country's worst-ever epidemic continues
September 02, 2026German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Wednesday that the European Union will work on imposing further sanctions on Russian individuals in the coming weeks.
September 02, 2026The United States launched a new wave of attacks on Iran late on Tuesday six months into a deadlocked conflict, prompting Iranian missile fire at what it called U.S. assets
August 24, 2026China has fully reopened the only road leading to the Gyirong border crossing into Nepal a week after sections were washed away by catastrophic
September 02, 2026German police were on Wednesday investigating a second sabotage attempt on the electricity grid within 24 hours, a day after Berlin blamed Russia for an attempted drone
September 02, 2026For the first time in recent history, Danish conscripts have been deployed to Greenland, as Denmark moves to bolster its presence in the Arctic after U.S.
September 02, 2026More than 500 students in Indonesia's East Java were hospitalised with food poisoning suspected to have been caused by free meals provided by the government, and an
September 02, 2026Ukrainian schools are adapting to wartime conditions as the conflict with Russia continues
September 01, 2026A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Gregor Stuart Hunter Bond yields are hitting new milestones as fighting resumes between the U.S. and Iran and oil prices surge, sending
September 02, 2026Dialogue between Russia and the U.S. should continue to find common ground in economics, which should make it easier to discuss political issues, Russian Finance Minister Anton
September 02, 2026Australia and the United States on Wednesday announced a combined $580 million in funding for the Pacific Islands as they
September 02, 2026Global temperature rises are set to exceed the key threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) "within a few years", the UN's environmental body said on
September 02, 2026Some tourists previously reported missing in Nepal have made contact with authorities, officials said Wednesday
September 02, 2026Tiger Woods is scheduled to appear in a Florida court on Wednesday to change his not guilty plea as part of an ongoing impaired-driving case against the 15-times major champion,
September 02, 2026The story of the U.S. is intertwined with its military history, from its creation in 1776 to the expansion of its physical borders to its role in the global political and economic order
September 02, 2026In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming
September 02, 2026Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says the Trump administration needs to “stop doing memes, stop throwing shade and stop trying to be tough.”
September 01, 2026Three days after a flash flood killed two people in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, search teams scoured the flood zone again on Tuesday for the last
September 02, 2026The U.S. military said late on Tuesday it completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran, saying it struck Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets as
September 02, 2026The Bank of Japan will debate raising interest rates including in September with a focus on whether inflationary risks were heightening,
September 02, 2026Rescue teams are continuing to search for thousands of people still missing after last week's catastrophic flooding in Nepal and China, as the death toll exceeded 1,000
September 01, 2026The U.S. military has hit targets in Iran, and Tehran has fired missiles and drones in response
September 01, 2026The move of United States international Folarin Balogun from Monaco to Everton is reported to be off after problems arose during the medical examination
September 02, 2026Nicaragua's Congress on Tuesday passed a constitutional reform that bans opposition parties from participating in elections and extends the presidential term from six to seven years
September 02, 2026Police in Arizona are investigating a shooting at a Tucson gay bar as a possible hate crime
September 02, 2026France said on Tuesday the U.N.
September 02, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov will discuss humanitarian issues in the Ukraine conflict with papal envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi later this
September 02, 2026The U.S. launched a barrage of airstrikes against Iran on Tuesday, prompting Iranian retaliation, in the most serious
September 01, 2026Brazil's Congress on Tuesday approved a bill exempting data-center-related equipment from federal taxes, part of the government's plan to lure such projects to the country
September 02, 2026Venezuela’s main airport has partially resumed operations nearly 10 weeks after two devastating earthquakes
September 02, 2026Oil giant Chevron is expected to soon announce it will expand operations in Venezuela, a U.S. official said
September 01, 2026Britain said on Tuesday it would provide more than £50 million ($67.56 million) in new funding to support efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
September 02, 2026A Honduran court has dropped charges against former President Juan Orlando Hernandez over fraud and money laundering, judiciary
September 02, 2026Britain's economy is set to grow a bit faster than previously expected in 2026 after withstanding the initial impact of the Iran war but firms remain wary about investment,
September 02, 2026Apple changed the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America" on the web version of its Apple Maps following U.S.
September 02, 2026Venezuela's ruling party-dominated National Assembly backed the country's oil deal with the Trump administration in a vote on Tuesday, ahead of a visit to Caracas by the
September 02, 2026President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian troops had captured 270 square km of Ukraine’s Donetsk region in August and a large group of Ukrainian troops were
September 02, 2026Barclays expects the U.S.
August 31, 2026After a long deployment in the Middle East, a U.S.
August 31, 2026U.S. special envoy John Coale has said he hopes to secure the release of hundreds of additional prisoners from Belarus next month and will go there in person to try to seal the deal
August 31, 2026The Justice Department says it has seized more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency donations intended for Hamas
September 02, 2026Venezuela's National Assembly on Tuesday approved an increase in the number of committee members who will select the new justices on the country's highest court, part of ongoing
September 01, 2026The Trump administration won backing from all G20 financial leaders except China's on Tuesday to act against "non-
September 01, 2026The German government has blamed Russia for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month using a drone laden with explosives
September 01, 2026The Rev. Al Sharpton says he never accused Nolan Wells’ friends of a crime, rejects defamation threat
August 22, 2026Germany blames Russia for drone attack on Leipzig airport
September 01, 2026Syria was constructing a nuclear reactor in Deir el-Zour under ousted former President Bashar Assad
September 01, 2026A North Carolina district attorney says a 17-year-old girl who recorded a livestream of a shooting that killed three people at a San Diego mosque and who disseminated the attackers’ white-supremacist writings has been charged with murder by aiding and abetting
September 01, 2026U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the latest U.S. attack on Iran was "justified," and threatened bigger strikes if Tehran retaliated.
September 01, 2026Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Egypt on Tuesday, his first visit to the Arab world's most populous nation in a decade, as countries across the Middle East reassess
September 01, 2026USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public
September 01, 2026The U.N. nuclear watchdog has resolved its outstanding questions from an investigation into secret nuclear activities in Syria under the Assad family's
September 01, 2026The German government said on Tuesday that it had concluded that Russia was responsible for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month
September 01, 2026A selloff in global bond markets deepened on Tuesday, reflecting investor angst over
September 01, 2026Guinea-Bissau has approved a new constitution in a referendum, provisional results showed on Tuesday, expanding presidential powers and reshaping electoral rules ahead of a
September 01, 2026U.S.
September 01, 2026A new academic year has started across Congo despite concerns by parents and teachers that the Ebola outbreak still poses risks to children in the epicenter
September 01, 2026The U.S. needs to start being serious and stop trying to be tough before talks on a possible trade deal with Canada can restart, Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on
September 01, 2026Alligator on Central Florida highway causes chain-reaction crash, leaving woman dead
September 01, 2026Oil prices jumped about 4% to a one-week high on Tuesday as a resumption in fighting between the U.S. and Iran renewed fears of supply disruptions from
September 01, 2026A whistleblower told Congress that the U.S.
September 01, 2026Scientists extracted DNA from mummified cheetah remains and made a surprising discovery
February 20, 2026Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal party won three special elections on Tuesday, maintaining Carney's slim majority in Parliament at a time when he
September 01, 2026Injuries and three straight losses in warmups have not dimmed hopes for host team Germany at the Women’s Basketball World Cup in Berlin
September 01, 2026Brazil's economic growth slowed in the second quarter as elevated borrowing costs continued to weigh on activity and household consumption shrank, with
September 01, 2026U.S.
April 03, 2026Canada's manufacturing sector expanded for a fifth straight month in August as output and employment rose but the recent increase in trade tensions between
September 01, 2026For the first time on record, Iran has gone about seven weeks without shipping meaningful crude exports through the Strait
September 01, 2026A submersible vessel has joined the search for 20 people missing for two days following a ferry disaster off the coast of Cyprus
September 01, 2026Drone pilot Manish Maharjan has helped rescue teams in Nepal find people missing after last week’s catastrophic floods
September 01, 2026Companies worldwide are grappling with a surge in AI-driven cyberattacks and ransomware that steal sensitive data and disrupt operations.
July 17, 2026Deadly floods that wiped out a tenth of Nepal's electricity generation capacity last week have cast doubt on the
September 01, 2026What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-at-Large, Finance and Markets World markets enter September with another government bond storm
September 01, 2026Two supertankers carrying Saudi oil were struck by unknown projectiles within minutes of each other while transiting outbound through the Strait of Hormuz
September 01, 2026China's state-owned shipping giant COSCO uses concealed equipment on board its ships
September 01, 2026For more than a century, in cases involving defendants ranging from a 19th-century Chicago bank clerk charged with theft to a Central American dictator accused of
September 01, 2026They were building infrastructure in Nepal. Their families in China want to know what happened to them
September 01, 2026Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD reported rising global sales for the fourth straight month, as robust exports continued to cushion the impact of sluggish domestic demand
September 01, 2026South Africa's manufacturing sentiment deteriorated further in August as business activity slumped, a purchasing managers' index (PMI) survey showed on Tuesday,
September 01, 2026Russia said on Tuesday it would announce a new ambassador to Britain in due course, weeks after its previous envoy left London at a dire point in bilateral ties
September 01, 2026Iran will immediately reciprocate if the United States returns to its commitments under an interim deal signed in June, President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday.
September 01, 2026Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals swept three special elections in a result that showed voters backing Carney for standing up for Canada against U.S. President Donald Trump
September 01, 2026Nations that lead the development of open-source technology will have a strategic edge for decades to come.
August 12, 2026India's manufacturing sector expanded at its slowest pace in five years in August as demand remained soft, leading to job losses for the first time in more than two years
September 01, 2026When the U.S. joined Japan's efforts to shore up the yen, it wasn't for nothing. This week, U.S.
September 01, 2026United States soccer striker Folarin Balogun is reportedly headed to Premier League team Everton on a transfer from Monaco
September 01, 2026Myanmar's junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing will make an official visit to Vietnam from September 4 to 6 at the invitation of Vietnamese President To Lam, state media in
September 01, 2026By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY, Aug 31 - A recent spate of bomb attacks has swept across Mexico, from car bombs to drones rigged with explosives, exposing an escalation in cartel violence that local
September 01, 2026U.S. oil company North American Blue Energy Partners will take over some oilfields previously controlled by several Chinese
September 01, 2026South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's top economic policy lieutenant has stepped down days after a cabinet reshuffle following public concerns about uneven
September 01, 2026South Korea will send a 44-member emergency relief team to Nepal to support search-and-rescue operations after flooding in the Rasuwa region, South Korea's Foreign Ministry
September 01, 2026The White House on Monday released terms of the U.S.-Venezuela oil deal with North American Blue Energy Partners.
September 01, 2026South Korea's exports surged 68.7% in August from a year earlier, extending their winning streak to a 15th consecutive month and outpacing analysts' forecasts
September 01, 2026U.S. companies Chevron and GE Vernova, India's ONGC, Italy's Eni and Colombia's GeoPark are on track to sign final agreements
August 31, 2026Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from international soccer after 21 years representing Argentina
August 31, 2026U.S.
September 01, 2026Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submits resignation after tension with Hegseth
September 01, 2026A divided Supreme Court has allowed the White House to continue construction on a $400 million ballroom project as lawsuits play out
August 31, 2026The United States' move to welcome Russia back to a meeting of G20 countries on Monday while denying some
August 31, 2026Ukraine's top sanctions official will visit Washington this week to urge members of the U.S.
September 01, 2026A second-half goal from Bukayo Saka has given Arsenal a 1-0 win over Aston Villa in the Premier League
September 01, 2026Brazilian and U.S. officials spoke virtually on Monday to discuss tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, and agreed to hold further meetings at a later date,
September 01, 2026State Farm was sued on Monday by Los Angeles County, which accused the largest U.S. home insurer of mishandling claims by victims of the January 2025 wildfires
September 01, 2026Oil prices rose and U.S. stocks fell after American forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first military action in a month
August 31, 2026The United Arab Emirates’ air force has intercepted an Iranian drone over its territorial waters
August 31, 2026Congo’s authorities report that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has topped 6,000 cases with 2,911 deaths
August 31, 2026Edouard Balladur, who was France's prime minister from 1993 to 1995, has died at 97, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on X on Monday.
September 01, 2026U.S.
August 31, 2026At least two people were killed and as many as 20 or more others were unaccounted for after flash flooding struck the Grand Canyon in Arizona over
August 31, 2026As the WNBA goes on its FIBA World Cup break, no team has more players headed to Germany then the New York Liberty
August 31, 2026Lionel Messi, who captained Argentina to World Cup victory in 2022 and the final in 2026, is retiring from international football, he said on Monday.
August 31, 2026The highest-ranking officer in the U.S. military says there are no plans to send troops to polling places during November’s midterm congressional elections
August 31, 2026Argentine superstar Lionel Messi announced Monday that he is retiring from his country's national team. "After the time that has passed since the final, and after giving it a lot of thought, I want to let everyone know that I am retiring from the National Team," Messi said in a statement on Instagram.
August 31, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he held a "detailed and constructive" call with U.S.
August 31, 2026Lionel Messi brought down the curtain on his extraordinary international career on Monday, announcing his retirement soon after inspiring Argentina to within one
August 31, 2026The leaders of China, Russia and India have gathered with other heads of state at a meeting billed as a counterweight to U.S. global influence
August 31, 2026Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday that the war in Ukraine needed to end for humanity's sake and that New Delhi would
August 31, 2026(In first paragraph, corrects to "accused of" from "on trial for" and changes "he" to "the shooter," to make clear suspect is not on trial and has not entered a plea.)
August 14, 2026U.S.
August 31, 2026Kalshi permanently banned former U.S. congressman George Santos from its platform on Monday and imposed a penalty of $71,356, citing insider trading.
August 31, 2026Israel’s far-right competes for votes with increasingly extreme visions
August 31, 2026Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday told Russian President Vladimir Putin that under their "strategic guidance and joint efforts", the foundations of bilateral ties will
August 31, 2026Italy said on Monday it would suspend its open-border arrangements with Spain for another 15 days, extending restrictions it imposed after a mass rush of migrants into the
August 31, 2026The party of Kosovo's caretaker prime minister, Albin Kurti, Vetevendosje (VV) and the opposition Democratic League
August 31, 2026Israeli airstrikes killed at least five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Monday, health officials said.
August 31, 2026Nepal's rescue teams, helped by Chinese and Indian experts, stepped up efforts on Monday to reach hundreds of
August 31, 2026India's economy expanded 7.8% year-on-year in the April-June quarter, blowing past forecasts as an investment boom and
August 31, 2026German inflation rose in August on higher energy prices due to the Iran conflict, but the increase was less than expected and core inflation stabilised,
August 31, 2026Turkey has prepared a plan for the safe passage of grain via the Black Sea and is in contact with both Russia and Ukraine regarding it, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said
August 31, 2026The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed the 6,000 mark, government data showed on Monday.
August 31, 2026U.S.
August 31, 2026Iceland needs to find new ways to strengthen its security after voters rejected restarting accession talks with the EU, the country's foreign minister
August 31, 2026Burned out cars. Rubble from flattened buildings strewn along deserted streets.
August 31, 2026Italy's population will shrink by almost 4 million by 2050, undermining the sustainability of its economy and welfare system as the proportion of elderly people increases,
August 31, 2026India must uphold a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan it suspended amid bilateral tensions and must limit work on an hydroelectric plant it is building in the Kashmir
August 31, 2026Singer d4vd will face trial over the killing of a teenage girl. Here’s a timeline of the case
April 18, 2026A court in Seoul, South Korea, has sentenced Unification Church leader Hak Ja Han to two years in prison
August 31, 2026Police say a suspect has been arrested after a weekend shooting at a rave in northern Switzerland that left one person dead and five wounded
August 31, 2026Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is due to set a record as leading Italy's longest-serving administration on September 4.
August 31, 2026Ayten Bicer felt her 12-year-old daughter slip from her hands and disappear as a ferry capsized off northern Cyprus on Sunday, killing at
August 31, 2026Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Monday appointed Erlan Karin, a longtime adviser, as vice president, an office created under a
August 31, 2026Police in Switzerland make arrest after deadly rave shooting
August 30, 2026Rescuers are trying to find trapped workers in hydroelectric plant tunnels after catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet killed at least 900 people and left more than 4,700 missing
August 31, 2026North Korea said on Monday the United States' hostile policy remained unchanged and vowed to continue strengthening its nuclear force, rejecting repeated U.S
August 31, 2026As Indonesia's wildfire season intensifies, authorities are on high alert as they work to contain the damage and avoid the devastation that hit the
August 31, 2026Leaders from some of the world’s least populous states are gathering in Palau for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting
August 31, 2026Russia sees NATO activity in the Arctic as a direct security threat, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an article published on Monday, as the alliance
August 31, 2026Authorities in Nepal are warning of potential fresh flooding as water levels rise in the Bhotekoshi River
August 30, 2026At least five heads of government were absent from talks at the annual Pacific Island Forum that began on Monday, as China-Taiwan tensions weighed
August 31, 2026Google Maps has changed the name of "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" for U.S. users to reflect President Donald Trump's executive order renaming
August 30, 2026Plans in one of Texas’ largest counties to use dozens fewer polling location than previous years is drawing protests from Democrats who say the reductions could create confusion in the November midterm elections
August 31, 2026Scottie Scheffler is the FedEx Cup champion for the second time
August 31, 2026Juriënsly De Windt and Shardijon De Lanoi each drove in three runs, and Curaçao won its second Little League World Series title, beating Nevada 11-2 in the championship game
August 31, 2026U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Iran's Larak Island on Sunday, a U.S. official said, marking the first known American
August 31, 2026Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration plans to impose sanctions on another bank this week in effort to clamp down on Iran transactions
August 31, 2026Yemeni coffeehouses have gained culinary prominence in recent years, offering brews of coffee and tea seasoned with cardamom, ginger, cloves and other ingredients.
July 20, 2026Israeli settlers storm Palestinian village, seizing home with owner inside
August 30, 2026German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sunday Berlin was preparing a response to the suspected drone attack on a Ukrainian cargo plane in Leipzig this month in
August 30, 2026A 22-year-old woman has been killed and five people injured, one seriously, in a shooting overnight at a rave in the Swiss town
August 30, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv has risen to 38, with four people still missing
August 30, 2026Niger's army, backed by Russian paramilitary forces, regained control of a key military airbase on Sunday after it was attacked by mutinous soldiers a day earlier, the
August 30, 2026At least eight people have died after a ferry carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off the coast of the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus
August 30, 2026A NATO official said on Sunday Russia is stepping up hybrid acts in Europe, but that at this time the alliance sees no imminent threat of attack.
August 30, 2026Nepal's scenic Chitwan district, known for its forests and
August 30, 2026Brazil’s black market for weight-loss drugs is booming. Smugglers are cashing in
August 30, 2026An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said.
August 30, 2026Rescuers in Nepal and China raced on Sunday to find thousands of people missing after a
August 30, 2026The devastating flash floods in the Himalayan region swept so many people downstream that authorities in one Nepalese district have begun burying bodies in temporary graves before they can be identified
August 30, 2026Representatives of Libya's rival political parties on Sunday signed an agreement
August 30, 2026On Sunday morning, Jais, a farmer in Ketapang, West Kalimantan on Borneo island - the province hardest-hit by raging
August 30, 2026Europe's central bankers are leaving an annual getaway with their U.S. counterparts far from reassured that
August 30, 2026Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio has reached another milestone as he moves closer to his favorite time of year
August 30, 2026Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez said on Saturday that an energy agreement with the U.S. would remain in force for 25 years, target an increase in crude output
August 30, 2026The U.S. government plans to take a 35% passive stake in Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt’s North American Blue Energy Partners, the Wall Street Journal reported on
August 30, 2026Poor weather temporarily hampered aerial rescue operations in Nepal as the search for thousands of missing people in areas devastated by catastrophic flash floods along the border with China entered its fourth day
August 29, 2026Carsynn Meyer, the first girl to play in the U.S. championship, had an RBI single to help Nevada beat Ohio 12-2 on Saturday and advance to the Little League World Baseball Series title game
August 30, 2026Finland's President Alexander Stubb said he did not believe Russia would risk an attack against a NATO country, telling Germany's Bild newspaper it would "make no sense" to
August 30, 2026Jaymiëll Martina struck out 12 batters, added an an RBI double and Curacao defeated Japan 4-0 on Saturday to advance to the Little League Baseball World Series Championship for the sixth time in the nation’s history
August 30, 2026Israel’s prime minister has spoken out after weeks of settler violence in the occupied West Bank and condemned the criminal actions of a “handful of rioters.”
August 29, 2026Voters in Iceland are deciding whether to resume negotiations to join the European Union
August 29, 2026Dozens of masked Israeli settler militants attacked homes surrounding the occupied West Bank village of Qusra on Saturday, the first major attack
August 29, 2026Six months into the Iran war, Iranian Americans remain divided over what comes next
August 29, 2026The Himalayas are unpredictable. But countries are building there like never before
August 29, 2026Trump is staking out extreme positions on White House secrecy, legal experts say
August 29, 2026Nepal resumed search and rescue work on Saturday after a brief weather-related suspension as authorities
August 29, 2026King Haakon VIII of Norway paid homage to his late father as "such a good dad" in his first address to the nation since
August 29, 2026Climate change has become a less prominent election-year issue for Democrats as voters say concerns such as affordability are more pressing
August 29, 2026At least 27 people were killed after a Russian drone strike on a Kyiv-area warehouse sparked a detonation, officials said on Saturday, prompting calls by President Volodymyr
August 29, 2026A Virginia family with four relatives missing in the flash floods along the Nepal-China border is calling for more resources to help with rescue efforts
August 29, 2026President Donald Trump on Friday announced an unprecedented U.S. push to take control of a fifth of Venezuela's vast oil reserves, betting that American companies
August 29, 2026The cheapest accommodation in Paris is disappearing: Here’s why
August 28, 2026Brazilian senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the main opposition candidate in the country's presidential election, said on Friday he will respect the result of the October vote,
August 29, 2026President Donald Trump says his administration has entered a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that, if realized, could give the U.S. access to vast amounts of the South American country’s untapped oil reserves, at cost
August 29, 2026Canada’s public broadcaster is making an exception to its policy of not labeling specific attacks as terrorism for the 9/11 attacks after coming under fire over a memo restating it
August 29, 2026The United States Southern Command says that Colombian security forces captured a suspected senior leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua
August 29, 2026An Ecuadorean court found former President Lenin Moreno guilty on Friday in a bribery case tied to the construction of the Andean country's largest hydroelectric plant, the
August 29, 2026Iran condemned the United States' new economic sanctions on Friday as "state terrorism" while its supreme leader
August 28, 2026Hundreds of protesters have rallied on the National Mall for a march in support of voting rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm election
August 28, 2026American diplomats and at least some of their family members are beginning to return to U.S. embassies in the Middle East
August 29, 2026U.S. officials are correcting earlier statements that several government agencies were hacked by Chinese hackers, now saying that the
August 29, 2026Four French nationals are still missing after the devastating flash flood that struck areas near the Nepal-Tibet border earlier this week, French minister delegate for French
August 29, 2026Rei Sakamoto played his way into the U.S. Open — but only by taking the spot that Kei Nishikori, Japan’s greatest men’s tennis star, hoped to earn for one last Grand Slam appearance
August 29, 2026Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, is facing backlash from European soccer leaders over a failed World Cup investment plan
August 29, 2026U.S. officials report about 90 U.S. citizens remain unaccounted for after catastrophic flash floods hit a border area of China and Nepal
August 28, 2026Argentina's booming beef exports to the United States could face a new test after Washington moved to widen tariff-free access for suppliers, potentially increasing
August 29, 2026Spain asked on Friday for help from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) in processing migrants in the North African enclave of Ceuta almost a month after
August 29, 2026Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic has accused a U.N. court of “uncivilized behavior” for denying early release to former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic
August 28, 2026Smartphones and social media have transformed journalism by producing a torrent of photos and videos of almost anything that happens where people are present, from holidays to
August 28, 2026(Corrects last paragraph to say it is the Navy's longest deployment, not the longest deployment for the USS Gerald R.
August 27, 2026SpaceX has pulled off its biggest salvage operation yet, recovering its most recently launched Starship from the Indian Ocean
August 28, 2026Flash floods caused by a glacier collapse along the Nepal-China border have killed hundreds and caused widespread destruction
August 28, 2026Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said on Friday Russia was greatly concerned about the arrests of opposition figures in Armenia, and reiterated that Yerevan would not be able to
August 28, 2026The European Central Bank should embrace blockchain technology to safeguard its role at the heart of the financial system, ECB board member Isabel Schnabel
August 28, 2026An Israeli strike killed a Hamas operative and two of his accomplices in the West Bank on Friday, the military said, in a rare use of deadly air power in the
August 28, 2026Vietnam said on Friday it strongly opposed all foreign activities in the Paracels archipelago in the disputed South China Sea, following a report earlier this week of new
August 28, 2026Canada's economy rebounded sharply in the second quarter after six months of virtually no growth, aided by a strong jump in exports and solid domestic
August 28, 2026Ukraine's top presidential adviser said on Friday that technical talks on Russia's war would likely take place in the near future but added that he did not expect any swift
August 28, 2026Cuban Gabriela Lopez runs a rescue center called Aldameros that would melt the heart of any cat lover.
August 28, 2026A campaign of forced contraception in Greenland that ran primarily in the 1960s and 1970s violated women's human rights but did not
August 28, 2026The Cambodian government has claimed a milestone in its fight against the scam industry accused of stealing billions of dollars from victims around the world, with officials saying
August 28, 2026A respected drug and mental health institute in the Netherlands is warning about potentially lethal ecstasy pills shaped like U.S. President Donald Trump's head
August 28, 2026President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” his latest escalation as he engages in a tense trade war with Canada. During the signing, he said, “We have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean."
August 28, 2026President Donald Trump marks an awkward moment in his second White House term as the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran reaches the six-month mark
August 28, 2026Rescuers are relying on helicopters to reach survivors stranded by flash floods along the Nepal-China border, where most major roads and bridges have been destroyed. The number of people listed as missing in both Nepal and China has risen dramatically to over 1,300 people.
August 27, 2026CIA chief was in Moscow to warn Russia against attacking NATO and encourage cutting off Iran
August 27, 2026Congo government figures show that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has spread to two new health zones in eastern Congo
August 28, 2026Japanese authorities spent a record 15.4 trillion yen ($96.5 billion) intervening in foreign exchange markets over the past month to support the local
August 28, 2026Sweden's military will participate in the surveillance and protection of Finland's territory with Gripen fighter jets and corvette warship, at least until the end of 2026
August 28, 2026The U.N. refugee agency has scaled back its budget by 16% and lowered its official headcount by around 3,500 as it adapts to new financial constraints at a
August 28, 2026Nepal is monitoring two lakes upstream of the flood zone where hundreds died on Wednesday, an official with Nepal's Disaster Management Authority said.
August 28, 2026Norway's King Harald, a reformer who emerged from the shadow of his well-loved, extrovert father over more than three decades on the throne
August 28, 2026Recent Russian air attacks have destroyed around 90% of retailers' food logistics, Kyiv's agricultural minister said on Friday, revealing
August 28, 2026Oyo Nyimba, a Ugandan king, who became the world's youngest reigning monarch when he took the crown in 1995, has died aged 34, the prime minister of his kingdom announced.
August 28, 2026Rural places have long built and expanded prisons to tap federal funds during hard times.
August 28, 2026The Iran war has reached its endgame: a costly stalemate.
August 27, 2026The families of South Korean workers missing after a catastrophic flash flood in Nepal urged authorities on Friday to secure helicopter access
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