President Joe Biden will mark this month’s anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine with a visit to NATO ally Poland, the White House said.

Peruvian authorities on Friday said the death toll from devastating mudslides in the country’s southern and central regions has climbed to 18, including three children.

Russia carried out a “massive strike” on critically important energy facilities of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex on Friday, the Russian defence ministry said yesterday.

Tens of thousands of Iranians yesterday rallied in Tehran and other major cities to mark the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, as their president said months-long protests had been defeated.

Half of Russia’s main battle tanks have likely been destroyed or captured by Ukraine, a senior US defense official has said.

President Joe Biden has told CNN that the shoot down a “high-altitude object” hovering over Alaska “was a success,” shortly after American national security officials disclosed that the commander-in-chief gave the US military approval to take the action.

Long-term exposure to air pollution raises the risk of depression, according to a pair of new studies published in the JAMA network of scientific journals.

President Joe Biden and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday at the White House that the two biggest countries in the Americas have successfully seen off attacks on their democracies and will now work together on fighting the climate crisis.

A Jewish settler fatally shot a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank yesterday, Palestinian officials said.

Almost 26 million people have been affected by the deadly earthquake that ravaged Turkey and Syria this week, the WHO said yesterday, warning that dozens of hospitals had been damaged.

The death toll from the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria is likely to “more than double”, said the UN yesterday, five days after the natural disaster struck the region, leaving more than 25,000 dead.

The country has seen numerous cases of vigilante action by mobs against people accused of blasphemy, one of the highest profiled ones being the lynching of a Sri Lankan national, a garment factory manager, in 2021

His visit came five days after a devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria, killing nearly 25,000 people including at least 3,553 in war-torn Syria alone

More than 40 countries across five continents have been targeted by Chinese spy balloons, says the US.

Tory, 68, acknowledged the relationship in a statement announcing his departure, saying it had ended earlier this year and the employee had left city hall.

President Joe Biden ordered the shootdown, which was announced from the White House.

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday said he might strip his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of France’s top honour, but is waiting for the “right moment” to do so.

Two people including a child were killed and several injured when a driver rammed his car into a group of people at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem yesterday, Israeli emergency services said.

Rescuers yesterday pulled people, including children, alive from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake as the toll neared 24,000 and bitter cold compounded the suffering of the homeless.

EU leaders have agreed tougher rules aimed at making it easier to expel asylum-seekers whose refugee applications are denied, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said yesterday.