Nicaragua’s electoral council on Friday disqualified the country’s main opposition party, from upcoming presidential polls, in which it headed an

A huge wildfire tearing through northern California became the third-largest in the state’s history Friday, and looked set to continue growing. A long-A huge wildfire tearing through northern California became the third-largest in the state’s history Friday, and looked set to continue growing. A long-

Israel conducted overnight air strikes against Hamas targets in Gaza in retaliation for the launching of incendiary balloons from the Palestinian enclave that caused fires in southern Israel, the country’s military said early yesterday. 

Hundreds of firefighters yesterday fought wildfires and flare-ups that have devoured record numbers of woodlands in Greece and left hundreds of families homeless, but heavy rains brought some respite to hard-hit Turkey. 

1786 - US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America.

A New Jersey gym owner pleaded guilty Friday to assaulting a policeman in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by supporters of then-president

US prosecutors said Friday they had charged two Myanmar citizens in a plot to attack the country’s UN ambassador, Kyaw Moe Tun, an outspoken

At least 30 South Sudanese soldiers were killed and 13 injured in clashes between forces loyal to Vice President Riek Machar and a splinter group, Machar’s party spokesman said in a statement on Saturday.

About 40 migrants were feared dead after a boat carrying about 50 people travelling from Western Sahara to Spain's Canary Islands capsized, a Spanish non-governmental organisation, said on Friday.

A former employee who accused New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of groping her in the Executive Mansion in Albany has filed a criminal complaint with the Albany County sheriff's department, the department said on Friday.

Representatives from 195 countries yesterday approved a critical UN science report that will provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment yet of the state of Earth’s climate. 

Millions more Mexicans have fallen into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people living in one of the country’s top tourist destinations hit particularly hard, official data showed Thursday.

Russia has formally banned organisations established by jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as the opposition says the authorities are trying to stifle dissent ahead of parliamentary elections.

The United Nations yesterday said it urgently needed funds to feed people in Myanmar amid fears that up to 6.2 million could be plunged into hunger by October. 

1942 - The first US land offensive of World War Two in the Pacific started in the Southern Solomon Islands, on Guadalcanal.

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that Hong Kong citizens currently in the United States who fear for their safety amid the political crackdown back home will receive temporary safe haven. 

The Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah fired barrages of rockets towards Israeli forces on Friday, drawing retaliatory fire from Israel into south Lebanon, in a third day of cross-border salvoes amid wider regional tensions with Iran. 

Leaders of five Central Asian countries sounded the alarm over the spiral of war in neighbouring Afghanistan at a regional summit yesterday, as US-led forces withdraw from the country and the Taliban advances.

Opposition leaders yesterday condemned Prime Minister Boris Johnson as “crass and offensive” for joking that former leader Margaret Thatcher’s coal mine closures had given Britain a head start in fighting climate change.

Thousands of people fled their homes on the outskirts of Athens on Friday as emergency crews struggled to stop wildfires from spreading to more towns while scorching winds fuelled blazes across Greece for the fourth day.