November2024

Massive floods brought on by unrelenting rains have displaced over 122,000 people from their homes in Malaysia’s northern states, according to disaster officials on Saturday. The amount exceeded the 118,000 people who were displaced during one...

As rescue crews used boats and jet skis to try to reach stranded homes, officials reported Saturday that flooding caused by torrential rains in southern Thailand has killed nine people and displaced over 13,000 others. Residents...

In an effort to raise awareness of demands for a treaty to reduce plastic pollution, Greenpeace activists boarded a tanker off the coast of South Korea on Saturday, according to the environmental organisation. With only one...

Vote counting in Ireland’s general election gets underway Saturday with an exit poll indicating a tight finish between the three main parties. After voting concluded late Friday, an exit poll indicated that pro-Irish unity party Sinn...

The Gaza Strip has descended into anarchy, with hunger soaring, looting rampant and rising numbers of rapes in shelters as public order falls apart, the United Nations said on Friday. Palestinians are suffering “on a scale...

Vladimir Putin, hours after Moscow hammered Ukraine’s electricity grid in an attack that left a million people without power, vowed Thursday to use Russia’s new hypersonic missile to hit “decision-making centres” in Kyiv. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr...

On Friday, Kyiv announced that more than 500 Ukrainian soldiers’ bodies had been returned by Russian authorities, the majority of whom had died in the eastern Donetsk region. Kyiv’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners...

The foreign ministry announced Friday that Nepal’s premier will travel to China next month, breaking with the Himalayan republic’s leaders’ custom of making India their first official stop. Prasad Sharma Khadga Oli, who came back to...

A shooting at a bus near an Israeli settlement injured at least eight people on Friday in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli rescue service said. Violence in the West Bank has surged since the start...

The European Union on Thursday confirmed it would give Ukraine 18.1 billion euros ($19 billion) as part of a bigger G7 loan backed by profits from frozen Russian assets. The Group of Seven advanced economies last...