Hegseth is no stranger to controversy and was only narrowly confirmed by the Senate earlier this year.

American forces have carried out deadly strikes on at least 22 vessels, killing at least 83.

The temblor at 2041 GMT was followed by more than 30 aftershocks ranging from magnitude 5.1 to 3.3 over the next three hours

Several tourists were among the dead in the blaze, which broke out at about midnight at a club in Arpora in North Goa district

Gunmen stormed a hostel in South Africa’s capital Pretoria yesterday, killing 11 people including a three‑year‑old child at a site police said was illegally selling alcohol.

A small French town is to offer expectant mothers 1,000 euros from next year to give birth at the local maternity ward in a bid to save it from closing.

Ruinous floods and landslides have killed more than 900 people on Indonesia’s island of Sumatra, the country’s disaster management agency said yesterday, with fears that starvation could send the toll even higher.

Eighteen people were killed in an airstrike on a town in central Myanmar, according to a local official, a rescue worker and two residents who spoke to AFP yesterday.

President Ahmed al-Sharaa warned yesterday that Israel’s demand for a demilitarised zone in southern Syria would endanger his country, as Israeli forces continue to operate in the area.

The Lebanese army has arrested six people after gunmen attacked UN peacekeepers patrolling in the south of the country, the military said yesterday.

A large-scale Russian drone and missile attack damaged power facilities in eight Ukrainian regions, causing blackouts and forcing nuclear power plants to cut power output, officials and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said yesterday.

The nearly two-month-old ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will not be complete until Israeli troops withdraw from the Palestinian territory under a peace plan backed by Washington and the UN, mediator Qatar’s prime minister said yesterday.

The attack is the latest in a string of mass shootings that have shocked the crime-weary country of 63 million people.

At the Pakistani border town of Chaman, the local hospital said three people had been discharged after suffering minor injuries during the clash

Netflix says deal benefits workers, consumers and innovation

Trump awarded FIFA's inaugural peace prize for promoting dialogue

The students were trapped on the second floor of the wood-and-brick building of the Calma Tripa restaurant when they were engulfed by flames

The World Health Organization chief said Friday that countries were in a strong position to finalise the vital missing piece of the pandemic treaty, which will determine how vaccines are shared

Israeli warplanes launched a series of raids targeting the eastern areas of Gaza City yesterday, as settlers cut water pipelines in Khirbet ad-Dir in the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank.

The US plans to expand the number of countries covered by its travel ban to more than 30, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Thursday.