Migrants resumed attempts to cross the English Channel to reach Britain on Saturday, four weeks after the last small boat arrived.

Chileans began voting for a new president yesterday, making a stark choice between the most right-wing candidate in 35 years of democracy and the head of a leftist coalition.

US President Donald Trump hinted that Republicans could lose the 2026 midterm elections, despite touting the “greatest economy in history,” in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Saturday.

Syria’s interior ministry said yesterday the gunman who killed three Americans in the central Palmyra region the previous day was a member of the security forces who was to have been fired for extremism.

Ukraine’s military hit the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region and an oil depot in the Russian Volgograd region, the Ukrainian General Staff said yesterday.

The Israeli military said it targeted three members of the “Iran-backed Hezbollah group” in strikes on southern Lebanon yesterday.

The attack was beyond comprehension, Australian PM Anthony Albanese says

Israel announced on Saturday that it had killed Raed Saad

PM Albanese says dark day for Australia, security agencies investigating

Officials have been on high alert during the festive season, after a deadly car-ramming attack at a market in the city of Magdeburg last Christmas shocked the nation

A gunman killed two people and critically wounded eight others on Saturday afternoon at prestigious Brown University

Across the United States, cities with large immigrant communities are primary targets of Trump's virulent anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric

International troops could be deployed in the Gaza Strip as early as next month to form a UN-authorised stabilisation force, two US officials told Reuters, but it remains unclear how Palestinian militant group Hamas will be disarmed.

Two US Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in Syria yesterday by a suspected Islamic State attacker who targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces before being shot dead, the US military said.

Congressional Democrats released 19 new images from the estate of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, including photos of now-President Donald Trump, as a deadline for an extensive release of documents related to the disgraced financier nears.

The expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is at its highest level since at least 2017, when the United Nations began tracking such data, according to a report by the UN chief seen by AFP on Friday.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, fresh from a meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, said he hopes to discuss a Ukraine-Russia peace plan with US President Donald Trump, adding that “peace is not far away”.

Tens of thousands rallied for the party of Nepal’s ousted prime minister, KP Sharma Oli, yesterday, in the largest gathering in the Himalayan country since youth-led anti-graft protests forced him out three months ago.

Plans for nearly 47,390 housing units were advanced, approved, or tendered, the report said

On December 13, 2025, the Thai military used two F-16 fighter jets to drop seven bombs