Multiple US agencies have told employees not to respond immediately to a demand by President Donald Trump's adviser Elon Musk to list their accomplishments in the past week or be fired, as a chaotic campaign to cull the federal workforce pushes forward

Russia launched 267 drones on Ukraine overnight, a “record” since the February 2022 invasion, the Ukrainian air force said yesterday.

When the physiotherapist at the rehabilitation centre in Kyiv asks the group of wounded Ukrainian veterans to all stretch out their legs, some chuckle.

Australia’s online watchdog said yesterday it has fined Telegram more than US$600,000 for missing a deadline to reveal how it tackles “terrorist” and child sexual abuse content.

Germans were voting in a national election yesterday that is expected to restore power to Friedrich Merz’s conservatives while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is forecast to achieve its best result yet in Europe’s ailing economic powerhouse.

The Trump administration sent emails on Saturday evening to US federal government employees telling them to detail their work accomplishments from the previous week by tonight or risk losing their jobs.

Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israeli Air Force jets flying over the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut yesterday were sending a “clear message” to anyone threatening Israel.

Hamas yesterday said Israel has gravely endangered a five-week-old Gaza truce by delaying the release of Palestinian prisoners under the deal because of the manner it has freed Israeli hostages.

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito renewed his wish for world peace on his birthday, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the imperial agency said yesterday.

Arduous coalition negotiations tend to drag on for weeks if not months in Germany, spelling long stretches of political paralysis before a new chancellor takes charge.

Musk -- the world's richest person and Trump's biggest donor -- has led the effort to fire swaths of the government workforce.

Israel was expected to release more than 600 Palestinian prisoners.

UK's decision to ramp up sanctions comes as US President Donald Trump has in recent weeks sought to sideline Kyiv

His comments came as Washington and Kyiv negotiate a mineral resources deal Trump wants as compensation for the wartime aid his predecessor Joe Biden gave Ukraine.

He was diagnosed this week with double pneumonia

One person died and two police officers were seriously injured yesterday in a knife attack in eastern France that President Emmanuel Macron said was an "Islamist terror act"

Palestinian militants yesterday freed five Israeli hostages, among the last living captives to be released under the first phase of a fragile truce that is also expected to see Palestinian prisoners released.

One person died and two police officers were seriously injured yesterday in a knife attack in eastern France that President Emmanuel Macron said was an “Islamist terror act”.

The United States urged UN members to back its “simple, historic” resolution on the Ukraine war, which diplomatic sources said omits mention of Kyiv’s territory occupied by Russia.

An American-Lebanese man was found guilty Friday of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a stage and repeatedly plunging a knife into the “Satanic Verses” author.