US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shuttled from Israel to the Palestinians’ West Bank yesterday, appealing for an end to resurgent violence and reaffirming Washington’s backing for a two-state solution to the decades-long conflict.

President Joe Biden said the United States would not provide F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as demanded by Kyiv, which insists it needs those to be better able to drive Russian forces from occupied territories.

An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of over 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran’s main landmarks in a video seen as a symbol of defiance against the regime, activists said yesterday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday expressed his sorrow for "innocent" Palestinians killed in a spike of violence in the occupied West Bank, after meeting Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.

Striking workers disrupted French refinery deliveries, public transport and schools today, in a second day of nationwide protests over President Emmanuel Macron's plan to make people work longer before retirement.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is seeking a six-month tourist visa to remain in the United States, his lawyer has said..Bolsonaro is under investigation in Brazil for his supporters' storming of government..How long has Bolsonaro been in Florida for?.The former Brazi

All countries remain “dangerously unprepared” for the next pandemic, the Red Cross warned yesterday, saying future health crises could also collide with increasingly likely climate-related disasters.

A total of 10 people were killed in a series of drone strikes targeting pro-Iran factions in eastern Syria, including three dead in strikes yesterday, a war monitor said.

A tiger escaped from a private property in Johannesburg yesterday, just weeks after another went on the loose near the city, reigniting calls for stricter regulations on keeping wild animals.

The fight against global warming should not be at the expense of economic growth, the UAE oil chief who will lead this year’s UN climate talks said yesterday.

A top Republican in the US Congress said on Sunday the odds of conflict with China over Taiwan “are very high” after a US general caused consternation with a memo that warned that the United States would fight China in the next two years.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday he would urge Israelis and Palestinians to calm tensions as he visits the middle-east during the worst violence in years, and reaffirmed a long-stalled peace vision as the “only path” forward.

Russian forces claimed incremental gains in eastern Ukraine yesterday adding up to their biggest advances in months, after relentless battles that Kyiv described as human wave attacks which showed Moscow had no regard for the lives of its own men.

A series of unclaimed drone strikes on pro-Iran factions in war-torn Syria killed 11 people and destroyed trucks carrying Iranian arms from Iraq, a war monitor said Monday.

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian driver in the occupied West Bank Monday, officials on both sides said, with the army saying the car had hit a soldier's leg before speeding off...Nassim Naif Salman Abu Fouda, 26, died from "a bullet wound to the head fired by the occupation (Israe

British consumer goods group Unilever on Monday named Hein Schumacher, the current head of Dutch dairy and nutrition firm Royal FrieslandCampina, as its new chief executive.

Boeing's (BA.N) 747, the original and arguably most aesthetic "Jumbo Jet", revolutionized air travel only to see its more than five-decade reign as "Queen of the Skies" ended by more efficient twinjet planes..The last commercial Boeing jumbo will be delivered to Atlas Air (AAWW.O) in the s

President Vladimir Putin threatened to personally target Boris Johnson with a missile attack just before ordering Russian forces into Ukraine, the former UK prime minister has claimed..The apparent threat came in a phone call just ahead of the invasion on February 24, according to a new BB

Gunmen opened fire on a group of people celebrating a birthday at the weekend in a township in South Africa, killing eight and wounding three others, police said today.

Eight people died and five were injured in a shooting at a busy nightclub in the town of Jerez, in northern Mexico, police have said.