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SpaceX launches 10th Starship rocket test flight successfully

SpaceX launches 10th Starship rocket test flight successfully

New York [US], August 28: SpaceX announced on Tuesday the successful completion of the tenth test flight of its Starship...

6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes off eastern Russia

6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes off eastern Russia

Moscow [Russia], August 28: An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale struck off the eastern coast of Russia's Kamchatka...

Thirty-four soldiers kidnapped in Colombia

Thirty-four soldiers kidnapped in Colombia

Buenos Aires [Argentina], August 28: Thirty-four soldiers have been kidnapped in southern Colombia following fighting between government forces and a...

Typhoon Kajiki claims several lives, causes damage in Vietnam and Thailand

Typhoon Kajiki claims several lives, causes damage in...

Hanoi [Vietnam], August 28: Torrential rain and landslides triggered by Typhoon Kajiki have claimed several lives and caused severe damage...

France to take streaming platform Kick to court

France to take streaming platform Kick to court

Paris [France], August 28: Over a week after the on-camera death of a popular video game streamer, the French government...

More explosions at Germany's Port of Hamburg after major fire extinguished

More explosions at Germany's Port of Hamburg after...

Berlin [Germany], August 28: Fresh explosions were reported at the Port of Hamburg overnight after a huge fire that raged...

Syria condemns Israeli drone attack killing six soldiers near Damascus

Syria condemns Israeli drone attack killing six soldiers...

Damascus [Syria], August 28: Six soldiers were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Syria, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said...

Gunman attacks Minneapolis school children in chapel

Gunman attacks Minneapolis school children in chapel

Washington DC [US], August 28: A black-clad gunman killed two children and wounded 17 other people at a Minneapolis Catholic...

South Africa's most vulnerable struggle to find HIV medication after US aid cuts

South Africa's most vulnerable struggle to find HIV...

Washington DC [US], August 28: On a warm evening in Johannesburg, the news spread like wildfire among sex workers: Within...

Turkey, Gulf states or European nations could host talks with Putin

Turkey, Gulf states or European nations could host...

Ankara [Turkey], August 28: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Turkey, the Gulf States or European countries could...

Lebanon to present Hezbollah disarmament plan: US envoy

Lebanon to present Hezbollah disarmament plan: US envoy

Beirut [Lebanon], August 27: Lebanon has agreed to present a plan aimed at persuading Hezbollah to disarm, and Israel will...

German minister slams Israeli settler violence on visit to West Bank

German minister slams Israeli settler violence on visit...

Berlin [Germany], August 27: German Development Minister Reem Alabali Radovan on Tuesday visited Arab-majority areas in the West Bank under...

Flight alert level lowered as Mount Etna quietens

Flight alert level lowered as Mount Etna quietens

Rome [Italy], August 27: Mount Etna, the infamous and highly volatile volcano on the Mediterranean island of Sicily, has calmed...

Russian forces advance into new Ukrainian region

Russian forces advance into new Ukrainian region

Moscow [Russia], August 27: Russian troops have pushed into the Dnipropetrovsk region of central Ukraine, Ukrainian military analysts said on...

I look forward to meeting North Korea's Kim, Trump tells South Korea's Lee

I look forward to meeting North Korea's Kim,...

Pyongyang [North Korea], August 27: United States President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung have expressed their willingness...

France formally returns slain king's skull to Madagascar

France formally returns slain king's skull to Madagascar

Paris [France], August 27: The head of a Malagasy king killed by French troops during a colonial-era war has been...

Mexican drug lord Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada pleads guilty in US court

Mexican drug lord Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada pleads...

New York [US], August 27: Mexican drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada pleaded guilty in a US court on Monday,...

Israelis demand end to war, release of hostages in protest

Israelis demand end to war, release of hostages...

Jerusalem [Israel], August 27: Israelis took to the streets on Tuesday in a major day of protests to demand the...

150 workers trapped in eastern Ukrainian mine after Russian attack

150 workers trapped in eastern Ukrainian mine after...

Moscow [Russia], August 27: Almost 150 miners in eastern Ukraine are trapped underground due to a Russian attack on their...

Rioting in Swiss city of Lausanne after fatal crash during police pursuit

Rioting in Swiss city of Lausanne after fatal...

Geneva [Switzerland], August 27: Around 200 people protested violently for the second night in the Swiss city of Lausanne after...

French govt likely to collapse as Bayrou calls confidence vote

French govt likely to collapse as Bayrou calls...

Paris [France], August 27: The French government led by Prime Minister François Bayrou is on the verge of collapse after...

Daily life on a remote Amazon island goes on despite diplomatic dispute

Daily life on a remote Amazon island goes...

Bogota [Colombia], August 27: Rain or shine, every weekday from March to December, boat owner Salvador Mitidieri ferries students from...

HSBC fined $4.2 million by Hong Kong regulators over disclosure failure

HSBC fined $4.2 million by Hong Kong regulators...

Hong Kong, August 27: HSBC, opens new tab has been fined HK$4.2 million ($537,683) by Hong Kong regulators over disclosure...

Meta's planned Louisiana AI data center to cost $50 billion, Trump says

Meta's planned Louisiana AI data center to cost...

Washington DC [US], August 27: Meta's (META.O), opens new tab planned AI data centre in Louisiana will cost $50 billion,...

Reuters and AP journalists killed in Gaza strike were not 'a target

Reuters and AP journalists killed in Gaza strike...

Gaza [Gaza City], August 27: Two journalists for Reuters and the Associated Press who were killed in an Israeli attack...

Fed Governor Cook will sue to keep her job as Trump mulls replacement

Fed Governor Cook will sue to keep her...

Washington DC [US], August 27: Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook will file a lawsuit to prevent President Donald Trump from...

Families leave Gaza City after night of bombardment, Israelis protest

Families leave Gaza City after night of bombardment,...

Gaza [Gaza City], August 27: More Palestinian families left Gaza City on Tuesday after a night of Israeli shelling on...