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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned residents of Gaza City on Monday to leave now, hours after Israel said it would ramp up airstrikes on the enclave, CBC writes. “I say to the residents ...
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...
Pakistan intends to recognize Armenia as a U.N. member state, a step that would pave the way for Pakistan’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), sources told TASS. “Pakistan is indeed plan...
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...
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...
Israel said it would ramp up airstrikes on Gaza on Monday in a “mighty hurricane”, to serve as a last warning to Hamas that it will destroy the enclave unless fighters accept a demand from U.S. Presid...
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...
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...
