Thailand’s top court has ruled that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra must serve a year in jail, in yet another blow to the influential political dynasty, the BBC writes. He had been sentenced ...
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Israel has rejected efforts by several Western countries, including Spain and France, to recognize Palestine as a state, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said. Sa’ar proposed the idea of establis...
Nepal has lifted a ban on social media platforms following mass protests against systemic issues of corruption and the country’s economic woes, and the killing of 19 people by security forces, Al Jaze...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has congratulated North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the occasion of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) National Day and reiterated his readin...
A train collided with a double-decker passenger bus in Mexico on Monday, killing at least 8 people and injuring at least 45, CNN writes, referring to an official at the Civil Protection of the State o...
Over 890 people protesting the British government’s decision to ban the activist group Palestine Action were arrested in London, police said Sunday, marking the largest mass arrest in the British capi...
Unrest killed at least 14 people and injured dozens in Nepal’s capital on Monday, as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters trying to storm parliament in anger at a social media shutdo...
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday canonized the first two saints of his pontificate, including a 15-year-old who sought to use technology to spread his faith, Euronews writes. In the presence of about seventy th...
The French prime minister, François Bayrou, is expected to be ousted in a confidence vote on Monday afternoon, plunging the eurozone’s second biggest economy into political crisis, The Guardian writes...
Stargazers enjoyed a “blood moon” during a total lunar eclipse visible across Asia, as well as swaths of Europe and Africa, Al Jazeera writes. When the sun, Earth, and the moon line up, the shadow cas...
Brazilians have marked the country’s Independence Day with duelling rallies in support of and against former President Jair Bolsonaro, days before the conclusion of his trial on charges of plotting a ...
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced his resignation as president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), just weeks after its ruling coalition suffered a historic defeat in a July elec...
