U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday said Israel had proposed a fresh Gaza ceasefire in exchange for the release of hostages, and called on Hamas to agree to the new offer, saying it was the best way to end the conflict. It’s time for this war to end and for the day after to begin, said Biden, who...

   This story contains strong language in paragraph Donald Trump stared down a bank of cameras inside Trump Tower on Friday and delivered a message fitting for both his legal and political battles: He is ready to fight.A day after a New York jury found him guilty of counts related to falsifying...

   President Joe Biden’s decision to relax some restrictions on Ukraine’s use of U.S. weaponry inside Russia is a small but significant step deeper into the two year old war that experts say could help blunt Russia’s cross border Kharkiv offensive.Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Biden’s...

   U.S. oil drillers are sticking to pledges to temper spending on boosting output, keeping the world’s top crude producer on course for slower growth in in what may ease pressure on OPEC to make further supply cuts this weekend.The U.S. has driven growth in global oil supply from non OPEC...

   South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will be badly weakened after presiding over the African National Congress ANC party’s worst election result since the end of apartheid.Results from around of polling stations in Wednesday’s election showed the ANC’s vote share at less than , a sharp...

   Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton died on Friday aged after he was assaulted by another inmate in a maximum security prison earlier this month, prison authorities said.One of Canada’s most infamous mass murderers, Pickton was convicted in of killing drug addicts and...

   More than billion worth of cryptocurrency has moved into a new type of platform which offers investors rewards in exchange for locking up their tokens, in a complex scheme that analysts warn poses a risk for users and the crypto market.The soaring popularity of so called re staking is the...

   Claudia Sheinbaum won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph.Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the...

   Talks aimed at reaching a global agreement on how to better fight pandemics will be concluded by or earlier if possible, the World Health Organization said on Saturday.The WHO’s member states have been negotiating for two years on an agreement that could increase collaboration before and...