A court filing Friday said the government has fired more than 4,000 federal workers

The blast was so massive that it was heard across a large distance

Trump unveiled additional levies of 100% on China's US-bound exports

Returns home from Istanbul

Trump has said he expects to head to the Middle East on Sunday, with stops in Egypt, where the talks took place, and Israel

The White House had criticised the Nobel Committee's decision to grant the peace prize to the Venezuelan opposition leader instead of Trump

Downpours triggered several landslides

Both allies and the opposition had been hoping for a fresh face in government to help end months of paralysis over an austerity budget

Large parts of Kyiv were plunged into darkness in the early hours of Friday after Russian drones and missiles struck Ukrainian energy facilities, cutting power and water to homes and halting a key metro link across the Dnipro river.

A skeleton found on Britain’s Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the seas, scientists said yesterday.

US President Donald Trump yesterday threatened to hike tariffs on Chinese exports and cancel a meeting with President Xi Jinping in a broadside against Beijing that sent markets and relations between the world’s largest economies into a spiral.

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te vowed Friday to speed up construction of a multi-layered air defence system as part of efforts to counter “enemy threats”.

The EU Friday demanded digital giants including Snapchat and YouTube explain how they are protecting children from online harm, as all but two member states signalled openness to restricting social media access for minors.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded yesterday to Venezuela’s opposition leader and democracy activist Maria Corina Machado, a “unifying” figure in what has become a “brutal” state, the Nobel jury said.

Thousands of displaced Palestinians trekked over the wastelands of Gaza to return to the ruins of their abandoned homes yesterday, after a ceasefire took effect and Israeli troops began pulling back under a Trump peace agreement to end the war.

Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, charged with crimes against humanity, will remain in custody after the International Criminal Court yesterday rejected a request from his defence team for release on medical grounds.

Japan’s ruling coalition collapsed yesterday as junior partner Komeito quit the alliance, putting in peril Sanae Takaichi’s bid to become the country’s first woman prime minister.

Two powerful quakes struck off the southern Philippines on Friday, killing at least seven people and triggering tsunami warnings.

The Taliban government yesterday accused Pakistan of “violating Kabul’s sovereign territory”, a day after two explosions were heard in the capital.

Spain hit back at Donald Trump yesterday after the US President suggested expelling the country from Nato for failing to meet his ramped-up defence spending target.