"A ban is extreme, but it could help to do a detox," says teenager

The US plan has been through several drafts since it first emerged last month

The rest of the dead were Indian citizens, mainly the nightclub's staff and holidaymakers from New Delhi

In 2025, the UN's appeal for more than $45 billion was only funded to the $12 billion mark -- the lowest in a decade

Both countries accused the other of breaching a ceasefire agreement brokered by Donald Trump

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school last month, a UN source and local media said Sunday, though the fate of the 165 students and staff thought to remain in captivity remains unclear

US President Donald Trump commented Sunday on Netflix's effort to acquire storied Hollywood studio Warner Bros., saying the streaming giant already has "a very large market share" and "it could be a problem.

Syria’s transition is fragile, one year on from the overthrow of ruler Bashar al-Assad, and the country’s cycles of vengeance and reprisal need to end, United Nations investigators said yesterday.

The UN nuclear watchdog has said that the protective structure surrounding the exploded reactor at Chernobyl can no longer perform its main function of blocking radiation, after a Russian drone strike earlier this year.

While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than “speaking tools”, some received better food than ordinary people, Italy’s culture ministry said on Friday, citing evidence from recent excavations.

The streets of Caracas are decorated with Christmas lights. The sound of traditional Venezuelan Christmas music can be heard everywhere. Daily routines seem undisturbed: children attending school, adults going to work, vendors opening their businesses.

US President Donald Trump’s outgoing Ukraine envoy said a deal to end the Ukraine war was “really close” and depended on resolving just two major issues but the Kremlin said there had to be radical changes to some of the US proposals.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that he will meet President Donald Trump later this month, saying a second phase of the US president’s Gaza plan was close.

The PTI emphatically deplored “ridiculous” remarks by the Pakistan military spokesperson against ex-premier Imran Khan, saying he was “not a security threat”, and lamented the weakening of democracy in the country following the passage of recent constitutional amendments.

A chain of tropical storms and monsoonal rains has battered Southeast and South Asia

The Ukraine war is the deadliest European conflict since World War Two

The shifting of this burden from the US to European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would dramatically change how the United States, a founding member of the post-war alliance, works with its most important military partners.

Since April 2023, the army and the paramilitary RSF have been locked in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands and displaced nearly 12 million

"We considered this a positive step," spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Greek state television channel ERT said the bodies had been found inside the vessel, which was taking on water and partly deflated.