Authorities removed Thursday scores of foreign nationals who had sought protection from anti-migrant groups at a church centre in Durban in a days-long standoff highlighting xenophobic tensions in South Africa. Campaigns by small citizen-led groups...
Venezuela’s president will travel to India next week to discuss selling oil, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday, an unusual announcement of a foreign leader’s travel that shows the new US influence over Caracas. Rubio...
The report, commissioned after Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump, was initially promised as an honest reckoning with what went wrong. Instead, its delayed release became its own political debacle, feeding months of speculation that the...
US President Donald Trump said he had postponed the signing of an executive order on artificial intelligence with top CEOs at the White House on Thursday because he didn’t like parts of the text. “Because I didn’t like certain...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that Cuba accepted an offer of $100 million in aid but that it was unclear if Washington would agree to Havana’s terms. Cuba has publicly only said that it was reviewing the offer made by Rubio and...
Britain’s late queen Elizabeth II pushed for her son Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to be given a high-profile job as a trade envoy, a senior official said in a 2000 document released by the government on Thursday. The British government agreed to...
SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO filing included some out of this world details, including a provision that founder Elon Musk’s massive bonus only kicks in if one million humans settle on Mars. The bonus structure, laid out in SpaceX’s...
France and the Netherlands have dismantled a VPN used by cybercriminals to conceal their identities during ransomware attacks and data theft, EU police agency Europol and a French prosecutor said Thursday. Luxembourg, Switzerland, Romania, Ukraine...
US forecasters on Thursday predicted the Atlantic hurricane season is likely to be “below normal” in 2026, while data on the eastern and central Pacific shows a 70 percent chance of above normal activity. An expected El Nino weather...
Russia said Thursday that the US indictment of Cuba’s former leader Raul Castro was unacceptable and bordered on violence. “We believe that the pressure being exerted on Cuba cannot be condoned,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov...
Italian divers who died in the Maldives may have taken the wrong tunnel in a cave and died in a dead-end corridor, the head of the company that recovered their bodies told AFP on Thursday. Finnish divers working for Dan Europe found their bodies in...
Portuguese and French police on Thursday opened inquiries after two young French boys were found alone, in tears, by the side of a main road in southern Portugal. French police were already searching for the children’s mother after their...
British energy giant BP is facing a lawsuit over allegations that improper toxic waste disposal in two remote villages in northeastern Kenya killed thousands of livestock and caused cancer among hundreds of locals. In a petition filed by hundreds of...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced hope on Thursday of progress on ending the war with Iran, with mediator Pakistan’s army chief due to arrive in the Islamic republic for talks. The expected visit by Field Marshal Asim Munir, a powerful...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday renewed criticism of NATO for not supporting the US war on Iran, as he headed to alliance talks in Sweden. “There are many countries in NATO that agree with us that Iran can’t have a nuclear...
