Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire deal aimed at ending the devastating two-year conflict in Gaza. The breakthrough agreement, brokered by the United States with support from...

France was thrown into fresh political turmoil on Monday after Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned just 26 days after assuming office, marking one of the shortest tenures in modern French...

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have confirmed that one of the victims killed in Thursday’s attack at a Manchester synagogue was shot by officers attempting to neutralize the assailant, who was not carrying...

Sarah Mullally was named on Friday as the first female head of the Church of England, marking a historic moment for the 1,400-year-old office. However, her appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury immediately...

U.S. President Donald Trump has given Hamas a three to four-day deadline to accept a U.S.-backed peace proposal for Gaza, warning that rejection of the plan could lead to “a very sad end.” The 20-point...

A military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday sentenced former president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia after convicting him of multiple offences, including war crimes and crimes...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday was marked by sharp divisions, with dozens of delegates staging a walkout in protest as he mounted...

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has conceded defeat in the country’s presidential election, congratulating opposition candidate Peter Mutharika on his victory. In a statement issued by the government,...

Three West African nations, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, have formally announced plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing the tribunal of serving as a “tool of neocolonial...

France has officially recognised the State of Palestine, marking a major turning point in its Middle East policy and adding momentum to a growing international push for Palestinian statehood. President...

France and Saudi Arabia will host dozens of world leaders in New York on Monday to push for renewed international backing of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with several countries...

At least 75 people were killed on Friday after a drone strike hit a mosque at a camp for displaced people in Sudan’s Darfur region, according to an aid group operating at the site. The Emergency Response...

The European Commission has rolled out a sweeping new package of sanctions against Russia, extending restrictions to Chinese and Indian entities in its strongest measures yet since Moscow’s full-scale...

The U.S. Federal Reserve has lowered its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4.1%, its first rate cut since December, as concerns mount about a slowdown in hiring and a weakening labor...

Britain and the United States have signed a landmark technology pact aimed at boosting cooperation in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and civil nuclear energy, alongside pledges of £31 billion...

U.S. President Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit against The New York Times, four of its reporters, and publisher Penguin Random House. The case, lodged in Florida’s Middle...

Two years after U.S. lawmakers threatened to ban TikTok, Washington and Beijing have reached a tentative agreement on the future of the Chinese-owned platform. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced...

Israel launched a long-threatened ground offensive on Gaza City on Tuesday, escalating the two-year war with what Palestinians described as the heaviest bombardment yet. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF)...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has begun vaccinating frontline health workers and contacts of infected individuals in response to a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC)...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison after the country’s Supreme Court convicted him of orchestrating a failed coup attempt following his...