Social media platform X said on Saturday it would challenge in court an order from an Australian regulator demanding the company remove some posts related to the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney.Police charged a boy, , with a terrorism offence on Thursday for the alleged stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari...

   Fighting raged at Myanmar’s eastern frontier with Thailand on Saturday, witnesses, media and Thailand’s government said, forcing about civilians to flee as rebels pressed to flush out junta troops holed up for days at a bridge border crossing.Resistance fighters and ethnic minority rebels...

   Russian war correspondent Semyon Eremin, who worked for the Russian daily Izvestia, was killed on Friday in a Ukrainian drone attack in southeastern Ukraine, the newspaper said.Izvestia said Eremin, , died of wounds suffered when a Ukrainian drone attacked while he was returning from a trip to a...

   President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told NATO members on Friday that Ukraine needed a minimum of seven Patriot or other high end air defence systems to counter Russian air strikes, exhorting them to step up their military assistance for Kyiv.In an emotional speech by video link to the NATO Ukraine...

   French police on Friday arrested a man who had threatened to blow himself up at Iran’s consulate in Paris, but on being searched was found not to be carrying any explosives.A police source told Reuters the man was seen at about a.m. GMT entering the consulate, carrying what appeared to be...

   Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has retained his parliamentary seat, results showed on Saturday, but it will be days before vote counting determines whether his OUR party can form the next government.Wednesday’s national election was the first since Sogavare struck a security pact...

   Venezuela’s major opposition coalition will back Edmundo Gonzalez for president in July’s election, its leadership said on Friday, after intense internal negotiations to determine who could take on President Nicolas Maduro.The opposition has struggled to define a candidate for the July contest...

   The U.S. State Department said on Friday it expects to finalize trade exemptions for the AUKUS defense project with Australia and Britain in the next days, signaling a further delay in but offering the prospect of a positive outcome in the project to counter China.AUKUS, formed in to...

   Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa declared a second state of emergency on Friday over an energy crisis that has already led to rationing in the South American country.Noboa, who took office in November, had declared an energy emergency and instituted power cuts earlier this week, but the cuts will...

   A man set himself on fire on Friday outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial was taking place as jury selection wrapped up, but officials said he did not appear to have been targeting Trump.The man burned for several minutes in full view of television cameras...

   A court in the Azerbaijani capital Baku on Friday remanded the head of an independent media outlet for two months on charges of smuggling, Turan news agency reported, the latest move against independent journalists in the ex Soviet state.Turan said Imran Aliyev, head of the Meclis.info outlet,...

   Iran’s foreign minister on Friday said Tehran was investigating an overnight attack on Iran, adding that so far a link to Israel had not been proven as he downplayed the strike.Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told NBC News the drones took off from inside Iran and flew for a few...

   Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, an official security force, said its command post at Kalso military base about km miles south of Baghdad was hit by a huge explosion late on Friday, and two security sources said it resulted from an air strike.One PMF fighter was killed and six were...

   The United States will withdraw its troops from Niger, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters late on Friday, adding an agreement was reached between U.S Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Niger’s leadership.There were a little over, U.S. troops in Niger as of last year, where...

   The U.S. military’s success helping Israel stop a massive wave of Iranian missiles and drones last weekend might suggest Washington is well prepared militarily for whatever comes next as Iran and Israel move from shadow warfare to direct confrontation.But current and former U.S. officials say U.S....

   Ukraine shot down a Russian strategic bomber on Friday after the warplane took part in a long range airstrike that killed eight people including two children in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, Kyiv said.Missiles rained down on the city of Dnipro and the surrounding region in the early hours,...

   Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Friday that Iran will respond at an immediate and maximum level if Israel acts against its interests. If Israel wants to do another adventurism and acts against the interests of Iran, our next response will be immediate and will be at the...

   North Korea conducted a cruise missile warhead test and test launch of its new anti aircraft missile in the West Sea of Korea on Friday, the North’s KCNA news agency said on Saturday.North Korea had conducted a power test of a super large warhead designed for Hwasal Ra strategic cruise...

   Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources said was an Israeli attack, but Tehran played down the incident and indicated it had no plans for retaliation a response that appeared gauged towards averting region wide war.Iran’s foreign minister said the drones, which the...

   The U.S. House of Representatives advanced a billion legislative package on Friday providing aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo Pacific in a broad bipartisan vote, overcoming hardline Republican opposition that had held it up for months.Friday’s procedural vote, which passed with more...

   More than, people were killed or injured in gang violence in Haiti from January through March, up from the last three months of , the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti BINUH said on Friday.At least were killed during police operations, BINUH said in a report. Several were...

   California prosecutors announced involuntary manslaughter charges against three police officers for the death of a man in their custody, reversing the outcome of a previous investigation that had cleared the officers.The officers in Alameda, California, pinned Mario Gonzalez, , to the ground...

   The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on an ally of Israel’s far right national security minister and two entities that raised money for Israeli men accused of settler violence, the latest actions aimed against those Washington blames for an escalation of violence in the Israeli occupied...

   Some , people in a Sudanese city are in extreme and immediate danger as worsening violence advances and threatens to unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur, top U.N. officials warned the Security Council on Friday.War erupted in Sudan one year ago between the Sudanese army ...

   The International Monetary Fund’s steering committee failed to issue a joint communique on Friday amid disagreements over wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, opting instead for a statement from the body’s chair that acknowledged the economic risks posed by the conflicts.International Monetary and...

   The Dutch privacy watchdog AP on Friday said it was recommending that government organizations should stop using Facebook as long as it is unclear what happens with personal data of users of the government’s Facebook pages. People that visit a government’s page need to be able to trust that their...

   Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee launched a program on Friday to combat voter fraud in the lead up to the November election, even as voting irregularities have proven extremely rare in the United States.The RNC and the Trump campaign said they were preparing to deploy...

   Mexican presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday said that if elected, her administration would focus on water management and renewable energy as part of a plan to boost the country’s sustainability.Speaking at a banking event on the country’s Pacific coast, Sheinbaum added that she would...

   Russian missiles hit the port of Pivdennyi in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region on Friday, destroying grain storage facilities and foodstuffs they contained, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other officials said. ... they hit the Sea Port Pivdennyi. Several missiles struck port facilities, not only...

   Democratic Republic of Congo should file a complaint with the International Court of Justice over Rwanda’s failure to respect its border, Belgium’s ambassador to Congo said on Friday at a meeting to assess the deepening crisis in eastern Congo.Congo has been struggling to push back M rebels since...