Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels said Thursday they have attacked almost 100 vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in months of strikes that have disrupted global shipping. In a speech broadcast by the rebels’ Al-Masira channel...
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A Kenyan military helicopter carrying top brass including the defence chief crashed on Thursday, police said. President William Ruto convened an urgent urgent meeting of the National Security Council, his office announced after news of the crash...
A man suspected of aiding a plot by Russian intelligence services to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been arrested in Poland, Polish and Ukrainian prosecutors said Thursday. The Polish national, named only as Pawel K., is...
Investigators have arrested two German-Russian men on suspicion of spying for Russia and planning attacks in Germany — including on US army targets — to undermine military support for Ukraine, prosecutors said Thursday. The pair...
The legendary Kennedy clan will endorse US President Joe Biden during a campaign trip to Philadelphia Thursday — underscoring the election threat posed by family black sheep and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Fifteen members of...
Two top Indian wrestlers have been “sleeping on the floor” at Dubai airport after record rainfall disrupted travel to and from the Middle East financial centre, Indian media reported. The Indian Express newspaper said Paris Olympics...
Kyrgyzstan appears to have blocked TikTok after the Central Asian country’s security services called to restrict the social media app to “protect children”. When AFP journalists in the country tried to access TikTok on Thursday, a...
Firefighters battled a blaze at Copenhagen’s historic former stock exchange for a third day on Thursday and said their work would continue for at least another 24 hours. Half of the 17th-century Borsen building was destroyed and its 54-metre...
The World Health Organization on Thursday announced a new, catch-all terminology for pathogens that transmit through the air, erasing a distinction that caused dangerous confusion during the Covid pandemic. During the Covid-19 crisis the standoff...
His writing anticipated a Hamas attack on Israeli kibbutzim and an Iranian strike from the skies, but former Mossad spy turned thriller author Mishka Ben-David is now concerned about what lies ahead. Since the October 7 Hamas attack, one of 72-year...
Dubai airport, one of the world’s busiest, witnessed major disruption for a third straight day Thursday after the heaviest rains on record drenched the desert United Arab Emirates. Emirates, Dubai’s state-owned flagship airline, and...
A senior Revolutionary Guards general threatened on Thursday to target Israel’s “nuclear facilities” if it strikes Iranian atomic sites, state media reported, anticipating retaliation for Tehran’s unprecedented weekend attack...
The United States and Britain announced widespread sanctions against Iran’s military drone program on Thursday, in response to its weekend attack against Israel. “Today, we are holding Iran accountable — imposing new sanctions and...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday painted a dark picture of the situation in the Middle East, warning that spiraling tensions over the war in Gaza and Iran’s attack on Israel could devolve into a “full-scale regional...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is set to visit India as his businesses seek new markets in the world’s most populous nation, with electric carmaker Tesla — suffering a sales downturn in the United States — reportedly scouting factory...