2023

Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 68.

At the assembly’s resumed emergency special session on Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories Thursday, speaker after speaker backed the Arab resolution’s cease-fire call –… Read More »🔴 Live: Palestinians beg UN to ‘stop the bombs’, Israel insists Hamas must be ‘obliterated’

EU leaders on Thursday failed to convince Kosovo and Serbia to make a breakthrough in the protracted push to normalise ties between the two Balkan… Read More »European Union fails to pressure Kosovo and Serbia to end standoff

A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.

Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett and model Munroe Bergdorf also feature on 2024’s Powerlist.

Even before war broke out, Israel’s southern city of Ashkelon was frequently targeted by Hamas rockets fired from Gaza. But now, the number of strikes… Read More »‘A ghost town’: Living under Hamas rocket fire in Israel’s Ashkelon

Last year, ferocious wildfires destroyed thousands of hectares of one of France’s most picturesque forests. Now French authorities are battling an invasion of beetles that are… Read More »Foresters race against time as tree parasites destroy French woods

The paramilitary RSF seizes key trade hub Nyala from the army, despite the start of peace talks.

Since the attack carried out on Israel by Hamas on October 7, the internet has been flooded with thousands of images of the conflict and… Read More »AI-generated images add to the confusion in the war between Israel and Hamas

Niger’s PM says that Ecowas sanctions, including cutting off electricity supply, medicines and food, after a military coup are injustice unlike any other.