Ukraine yesterday said that one of its soldiers was killed in fighting with pro-Russia separatists in the east of the country, as tensions with Moscow soar. 

Several European supermarket chains are dropping Brazilian beef products linked to destruction of the Amazon rainforest and tropical wetland, the US activist group Mighty Earth said Thursday. 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday faced questions about his leadership after weeks of controversy culminated in a crushing by-election defeat in a constituency never previously lost by his Conservative Party. 

In the fight against the coronavirus, one key component of the human immune system has hogged the limelight: antibodies.

218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal’s Carthaginian army heavily defeat Roman forces on Italian soil.

US President Joe Biden warned Thursday of a “winter of severe illness and death” for those unvaccinated against Covid-19, as the G7 called the Omicron variant the biggest threat to global public health.

The United States on Thursday unleashed a volley of actions to censure China’s treatment of the Uyghur minority, with lawmakers voting to curb trade and new sanctions slapped on the world’s top consumer drone maker.

There will be no talks on European security without our European allies and partners. … We’ve managed to engage Russia over strategic concerns for decades. There’s no reason we can’t do that moving forward to reduce instability, but we’re going to do that in partnership and coordination with our European allies and partners.

EU leaders said yesterday that vaccinations and booster shots would be vital to counter the Omicron coronavirus variant as countries stepped up restrictions to slow its startling spread.

There are currently 488 media professionals imprisoned around the world, the highest number since Reporters Without Borders began counting more than 25 years ago, the NGO announced yesterday.

Five schoolchildren were killed and several others were seriously injured when a gust of wind blew their bouncy castle into the air at an end-of-term party in Australia yesterday.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday named Caroline Kennedy as the US ambassador to Australia, giving a new public role to the once reticent scion of the celebrated political dynasty.

Kurdish forces in northern Iraq yesterday found a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 11 Iraqi policemen presumed killed by jihadists, a peshmerga security official said.

A third of people in the 420-million-strong Arab world do not have enough to eat, the United Nations said yesterday, highlighting that 69 million suffered from malnutrition last year.

European Union leaders were to consider yesterday what economic sanctions they could impose on Russia if Moscow were to launch a new attack on Ukraine, Slovenia’s prime minister said, warning that the bloc was prepared for Russian “surprises”.

1903 - Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first successful controlled flight in a powered aircraft, the Wright “Flyer”, on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. They made four flights in all, the longest lasting almost a minute.

Under-fire British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday faced a crucial test of his leadership as polls opened in a by-election in a constituency his party has never lost, where defeat would intensify calls for a new leader.

Hundreds of Myanmar villagers have fled to Thailand after junta troops clashed with an ethnic rebel group, officials told AFP yesterday.

The US Congress yesterday voted to set up a commission to assess the failures of the 20-year war in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s victory.

US authorities released 1,491 files of secret documents Wednesday on president John F. Kennedy’s assassination, a case that still fuels