The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the launch by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, of the landmark opportunity for countries to apply for funding to introduce, or further roll-out, the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S)...

The UK has hit its hottest temperature on record, with 40.2C recorded at Heathrow in London, according to provisional Met Office data. The Met Office tweeted: “For the first time ever, 40 Celsius has...

US inflation roared again to a fresh four-decade high last month, likely strengthening the Federal Reserve’s resolve to aggressively raise interest rates that risks upending the economic expansion. The...

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the military and police to do ‘what is necessary’ to ‘restore order’ in the country.  This is coming after days of...

Angola’s former president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos has died aged 79. His passing was announced by the country’s presidency on Friday. Dos Santos died at 11.10am Spanish time at the Barcelona...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot while campaigning in the western city of Nara, according to local media The NHK broadcaster and the Kyodo news agency reported Abe’s...

Boris Johnson is set to step down as prime minister today after a fatal onslaught of resignations in protest over his leadership. New education secretary Michelle Donelan became the fifth Cabinet minister...

At least six people have been killed and two dozen others injured in a shooting at an Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb, officials in the US city of Highland Park said, as authorities continue...

West African leaders attending a regional summit agreed Sunday to lift sanctions on Mali and Burkina Faso, two neighbors led by military governments. Speaking in Accra, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou – Ecowas...

Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son and namesake of the Philippines’ late dictator, has been sworn in as the country’s new president. Marcos Jr., 64, won a landslide victory during the May elections. More...

NATO leaders on Wednesday formally invited Finland and Sweden to join the alliance, one day after Turkey dropped its objections to their membership. “The accession of Finland and Sweden will make...

The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. in 1973. The court’s controversial but expected...

The European Commission has backed Ukraine and Moldova to become candidates for EU membership. But leaders of EU countries will then have the final say at a summit in Brussels on 23-24 June. The announcement...

Algeria has announced the North African nation is “immediately” suspending a two-decades-old friendship treaty with Spain – a decision Madrid said it regretted – and banning all imports...

Pro-Russia officials have sentenced to death two British men and a Moroccan national captured while fighting in the Ukrainian army in Mariupol. A court in Russian-controlled east Ukraine convicted Aiden...

The Burkinabe army has announced the death of 11 soldiers following an attack by suspected jihadists on a military detachment in eastern Burkina Faso. A previous report on Thursday from security and local...

Finland and Sweden formally applied to join the NATO alliance on Wednesday at allied headquarters, a decision spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and setting in motion an accession process that...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed Turkey’s opposition to NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, shooting down a proposal by the Nordic countries to send delegations to Ankara to address the...

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has died, Emirati state news agency WAM reported. He was 73. “The Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced that there will be 40 days...

Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was shot dead Wednesday as she covered an Israeli army raid on Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. The Qatar-based TV channel said Israeli forces...