Air raid alerts sounded throughout Ukraine early on Friday, with some areas later reporting explosions and officials saying anti-aircraft units were in action in several… Read More »🔴Live: Explosions, air raid alerts throughout Ukraine
Leaders of the Group of Seven advanced economies are generally united in voicing concern about China. The question is how to translate that worry into… Read More »G7 leaders discuss response to China ‘economic coercion’ threat
A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.
Walt Disney Co DIS.N is scrapping plans to build a nearly $1 billion corporate campus in central Florida that would have housed 2,000 employees, according to an e-mail to… Read More »Disney scraps plans for new Florida campus as fight with Gov. DeSantis continues
A year after celebrating Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun” comeback, the Cannes Film Festival paid tribute to another beloved icon of the 1980s with the world… Read More »‘Indy’ mania grips Cannes for Harrison Ford’s last crack of the whip
Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed a “new era” of ties with Central Asia on Thursday, kicking off a summit Beijing hopes will deepen relations with… Read More »China’s Xi hails ‘new era’ of ties with Central Asia
More than half of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs are dwindling and placing humanity’s future water security at risk, with climate change and unsustainable… Read More »More than half the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs drying up, study finds
Local authorities, armed with heavy equipment, trucks and cranes, demolished the awnings and outside terraces of a dozen cafes in the town of Ekbatan, a… Read More »Iranian security forces demolish street cafes in Ekbatan, bastion of protest movement
A mother-of-five tells the BBC how she escaped a Kenyan doomsday cult where at least 200 people died.
Ukraine’s armed forces are braced for the country’s much-touted counteroffensive. Near the southern frontline in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, an intensive ground assault training programme is… Read More »Ukrainian troops brace for long-awaited counteroffensive
