Israel said yesterday it had deported all the foreign activists seized by Israeli forces from a Gaza-bound flotilla, following global outcry over their treatment in custody.

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said yesterday he would be “happy” to talk to US leader Donald Trump, a conversation that would break more than four decades of diplomatic protocol and drew pre-emptive ire from China.

China said it supported Cuba and urged the United States to “stop brandishing the judicial stick” against the country, after Washington indicted the Caribbean island’s former leader Raul Castro on murder charges.

The Taliban government’s new decree on marriage separation “reinforces systemic discrimination” and erodes the rights of Afghan women and girls, the United Nations said yesterday.

US President Donald Trump had a tense conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that reflected their different views on how to proceed with the Iran war, a US official told CNN.

Harvard announced Wednesday it will limit how many top marks professors can give undergraduate students, moving to fight grade inflation at one of America’s most storied universities.

A Ukrainian drone strike killed two people in Russia’s central Samara region yesterday, the local governor said, as Kyiv claimed a strike on a major oil refinery in the area.

Net migration to the UK fell by nearly half in the 12 months to December 2025 to 171,000, the official statistics agency said yesterday, providing some relief on a key issue for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

The US and Iran stuck to opposing stances yesterday over Tehran’s uranium stockpile and controls on the Strait of Hormuz, although US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there had been “some good signs” in talks.

Trump says talks on 'borderline'

Pakistan continues to mediate between two sides

A bomb disposal unit was called to an Australian airport on Thursday -- only to find the suspicious object was a laser hair removal device

SpaceX IPO could reshape late-stage tech funding, targets $1.75 trillion valuation

Meta began laying off roughly 8,000 employees Wednesday -- about 10 percent of its global workforce -- as co-founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg pushes to redirect resources toward an ambitious artificial intelligence agenda

DRC and Uganda are fighting to contain a dramatic Ebola outbreak, which went unnoticed for a long time. Are US aid cuts to blame for the delayed crisis response?

Trump says he came within an hour of restarting the wa

Iran uses checkpoints, vetting, and selective fees to control Hormuz transit, IRGC central to process

The US special envoy to Greenland, the Arctic island coveted by President Donald Trump, fanned the Danish autonomous territory’s dreams of independence in an interview published yesterday during his visit to Nuuk.

The World Health Organization yesterday said the risk of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak was currently high at the national and regional levels but low worldwide.

EU lawmakers and member states reached a deal in the early hours of yesterday to implement the bloc’s nearly year-old trade pact with the US, with President Trump threatening new tariffs unless it is done by July 4.