More people have died as parts of India continue to be hit by extreme weather, following huge storms earlier this month. Dozens of people have been killed in India in powerful storms sweeping across the country. At least 70 people have died and more than 100 have been injured after a fresh wave of violent […]

At least 52 Palestinians have been killed and 2,400 wounded by Israeli troops, Palestinian officials say, on the deadliest day of violence since the 2014 Gaza war. Palestinians have been protesting for weeks but deaths soared on the day the US opened its embassy in Jerusalem. Palestinians see this as clear US backing for Israeli […]

Ivanka Trump has landed in Israel for the inauguration of the US Jerusalem embassy on Monday, as protesters in Gaza prepare for a day of rallies along the frontier that are expected to be met with gunfire. The US president’s daughter said she was returning “with great joy” to Jerusalem, which Donald Trump has recognised as Israel’s […]

PAHOA, Hawaii  – More destructive lava flows could soon hit Hawaii’s Big Island as the Kilauea volcano erupts, posing a greater threat than oozing magma that has so far destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands to evacuate, scientists said. As a lava lake at Kilauea’s summit drains inside the volcano, magma is running underground. […]

MOSCOW – Russia is not in talks with the Syrian government about supplying advanced S-300 ground-to-air missiles and does not think they are needed, the Izvestia daily cited a top Kremlin aide as saying on Friday, in an apparent U-turn by Moscow. The comments, by Vladimir Kozhin, an aide to President Vladimir Putin who oversees […]

”They’ve been through a lot,” the president said on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland overnight. The three Americans freed from North Korean labor camps waved and smiled as they were greeted by President Donald Trump at a military base near Washington early Thursday. Kim Hak-song, Kim Dong-chul and Kim Sang-duk, who is also known […]

Israel says it has struck almost all of Iran’s military infrastructure inside Syria in its biggest assault since the start of the civil war there. The strikes came after 20 rockets were fired at Israeli military positions in the occupied Golan Heights overnight. Syria’s military said the Israeli “aggression” had killed three people. There was […]

Family members of Tony Kim, one of three Americans reportedly released from North Korea after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit, are thanking God and President Trump for his release, over one year after he was detained. Trump tweeted about the release of the three Americans early Wednesday morning, saying that they “seem to be in good […]

WASHINGTON — President Trump said Tuesday the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement and re-impose sanctions on Iran, a decision likely to anger allies who fear the prospect of a nuclear arms race in the heart of the Middle East. “The Iran deal is defective at its core,” Trump said during a speech at the […]

As Dmitry Medvedev is also confirmed as his prime minister. In the gilded halls of the Grand Kremlin Palace, its construction a nod to the durability of autocracy, Vladimir Putin was on Monday officially returned to the Russian presidency. Hand on the constitution, the fourth-term president, who was first elected in 2000, swore allegiance to his people and country, inspected his presidential […]