Police in Washington separately said there was a shooting one block from the White House on Wednesday, but gave no other details

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi slammed what he called the United States’ “bullying approach” towards Venezuela, a statement said yesterday, as President Donald Trump ramps up pressure on his Venezuelan arch-foe.

US President Donald Trump yesterday raged at a New York Times report that focused on his age and growing signs of fatigue, insisting that he is full of energy and calling the woman author of the article “ugly.”

An explosion at a weapons depot in northwest Syria’s Idlib province killed five people and wounded nine others yesterday, security forces said in a statement.

Thailand airlifted patients and flew critical supplies, including oxygen tanks, into a submerged southern city yesterday, as the death toll from some of the region’s worst floods in years climbed to 33.

At least 36 people were killed and 279 were missing yesterday after Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in three decades ripped through high-rise residential towers sheathed in flammable bamboo scaffolding, authorities said.

Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at war with a rival paramilitary group since April 2023, called on US President Donald Trump yesterday to bring peace.

Russia has seen the latest copy of a US plan to end the Ukraine war and views some of it positively, but other points require discussion, the Kremlin said yesterday.

The Israeli military yesterday announced a new “counterterrorism” operation in the north of the occupied West Bank.

Turkish defence companies signed $6.5 billion worth of contracts to reinforce and develop Turkey’s integrated, multi-layered ‘Steel Dome’ air defence system, the Turkish Defence Industries Presidency (SSB) said yesterday.

The death toll from days of widespread flooding in southern Thailand rose to 33 on Wednesday

Major tech firms including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have announced workforce reductions over the past two years

Trump said US negotiators were making progress in discussions with Russia and Ukraine

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All cargoes are scheduled for January shipment from US Gulf Coast terminals and Pacific Northwest ports, the sources said.

French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday that France must not be “weak” faced with the threat from Russia, while emphasising it had no intention of “sending our young people” to fight in the Ukraine war.

Russia rained missiles and drones overnight on Kyiv, killing six people, authorities said yesterday, as three people died in Russia’s Rostov region in massive Ukrainian strikes.

Israel’s war in Gaza has ravaged the Palestinian territory’s economy and is threatening its very survival, the United Nations warned yesterday, calling for “immediate and substantial” international intervention.

The United States presented the warring Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) with a strong text for a peace plan but neither side has accepted it, senior US envoy Massad Boulos said yesterday.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing the “Genesis Mission,” a national initiative to harness AI for scientific breakthroughs, comparing its scope to the Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb during World War II.