Saudi Arabia intends to bid to host the Expo 2030 world fair, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Friday, part of the de facto ruler’s push to transform the kingdom’s economy and diversify it away from oil.

Young children in the US are one step closer to a Covid-19 vaccine. The US Food and Drug administration on Friday authorised the Pfizer vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, making it the first Covid-19 shot for young children in the United States.

The United States and its allies on Thursday urged Russia to protect media freedom, condemning what they called a crackdown on independent outlets.

The Philippine government said yesterday it will postpone elections key to ending decades of sectarian bloodshed in a troubled Muslim region, with the pandemic and a stalling peace process blamed for the delay.

A child was among 13 people killed when a missile fired by Yemeni rebels struck a tribal leader’s home south of the strategic city of Marib, military and medical sources said yesterday.

Britain yesterday threatened to board French fishing boats and France stood by a plan to impose sanctions on British vessels in a deepening row over post-Brexit fishing rights.

Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions rose by 9.5 percent last year, mostly because of deforestation, a report said Thursday, making it one of the only major economies not to cut pollution as the pandemic hit.

The United States and United Nations dialled up the pressure on Sudan’s new military junta on Thursday as confrontations between soldiers and anti-coup protesters took the death toll to at least 11.

Leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies are set to commit to supporting cutting to 100 days the period in which pharmaceutical companies can develop new vaccines, drugs and tests during a pandemic, according to a draft joint document.

These crises present us with the need to take decisions, radical decisions that are not always easy. ...moments of difficulty like these also present opportunities, opportunities that we must not waste. Pope Francis urges world leaders ahead of COP26 climate summit

Facebook will face intense scrutiny over its future at next week’s Web Summit, with its “Meta” rebrand and a damaging whistleblower scandal set to dominate discussions at one of the world’s biggest tech conferences.

Leaders of the 20 richest countries will recognise the existential threat of climate change, a draft communique seen by Reuters shows, as Pope Francis yesterday said the COP26 summit must give future generations “concrete hope” by matching words with deeds.

The United Nations yesterday called for nations at the upcoming COP26 climate change summit to increase funding for developing countries to adapt.

The judge investigating last year’s deadly Beirut port blast suspended a summons targeting the former Lebanese premier Hassan Diab Wednesday, after Diab filed a lawsuit against him.

The Kremlin warned Wednesday that the use of Turkish-made drones could further aggravate the conflict in Ukraine, after Kiev released footage of its military employing the weapons against pro-Russian separatists for the first time.

A German man was handed a two-year suspended sentence yesterday for passing on floor plans of parliament buildings to Russian secret services while employed by a security company.

Residents of an Iraqi village have killed 11 people in retaliation for a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State group, an Iraqi security official said.

More than 30 instances of violence and threats of violence against Afghan journalists were recorded in the last two months, with nearly 90 percent

A group of 12 European countries yesterday urged Israel to scrap plans for the construction of more than 3,000 settler homes in the occupied

The WHO said it was closely tracking a Delta subvariant to determine whether it was more transmissible than the original strain, as Covid-19