The United Nations Security Council convened on Tuesday to discuss the situation in the Middle East. The meeting comes after Israel moved to intensify its operations across the Gaza Strip following the breakdown of a fragile truce on 18 March.
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Iran's interior minister has said negligence was a factor in the massive explosion and fire at the country's largest container port, as the death toll rose to at least 70.
Eskandar Momeni said Saturday's blast at Shahid Rajaee port in Bandar Abbas, (...)
Former US Representative George Santos was sentenced on Friday to more than seven years in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, marking a dramatic downfall for the disgraced New York politician once described as a "pathological liar (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Music Commission will host the Saudi Orchestra Masterpieces concert at the iconic Sydney Opera House on Monday, May 12.
The concert will be under the patronage of Minister of Culture and Chairman of the Music Commission Prince (...)
A Rwandan beekeeper living in the US has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the 1994 genocide in his country.
Faustin Nsabumukunzi is accused of committing "heinous acts of violence abroad" when he served as a local leader at the start of (...)
US federal prosecutors have filed a formal notice seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting dead a healthcare boss in New York.
Prosecutors argue in the filing that the 26-year-old killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian (...)
President Donald Trump has backed US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after reports that military attack details were shared in a group chat that included Hegseth's wife, brother, and personal lawyer.
The controversy comes a month after a journalist (...)
Harvard University sued the Trump administration Monday in a new escalation of the fight over institutional oversight, independence and federal funding for the Ivy League school.
University President Alan M. Garber said in a letter to the Harvard (...)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed plans about a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen on a second Signal group chat, this one on his personal phone and including his wife, lawyer and brother, three people familiar with the (...)
The United Nations has taken note of Russia's announcement of a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine over the Orthodox Easter weekend, a UN spokesperson said Saturday, reiterating calls for a durable and comprehensive peace aligned with international law (...)
A haunting image of a young Gazan boy recovering from war injuries has been named World Press Photo of the Year for 2025.
The portrait, taken by Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf for the New York Times, shows nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who (...)
An organizer of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has been arrested by immigration officials as he attended an interview as part of his application for US citizenship, his lawyer says.
Mohsen Mahdawi, a green card holder who is due to (...)
A Palestinian paramedic who has been missing since an Israeli attack that killed 15 other emergency workers in southern Gaza three weeks ago is being detained by Israeli authorities, the International Committee of the Red Cross has said.
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NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Wasel, and his French counterpart Ambassador Jérôme Bonnafont jointly chaired the first briefing session for UN member and observer states on the (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday issued a directive ordering the military to assume control of specific federal lands along the U.S.-Mexico border, in a move aimed at intensifying efforts to curb illegal crossings.
In a memo sent to four (...)
US President Donald Trump's administration has announced that smartphones, computers, and a range of other electronic devices will be exempt from the sweeping new tariffs targeting global and Chinese imports.
The decision, published late Friday by (...)
The US Supreme Court has instructed the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a mega-jail in El Salvador.
The Trump administration has conceded that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported due to an (...)
Six people, including three children, were killed after a helicopter carrying a family of tourists crashed into the Hudson River in New York, authorities have said.
The family of five was from Spain and the sixth person was the pilot, New York City (...)
Israel's military has transformed every bit of Gazan territory within about half a mile of the Israeli border into a wasteland.
Armored bulldozers have systematically leveled one home after another. Combat engineers have laid explosives and (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France plans to recognize Palestine as a state in June this year.
Macron made the comments during an interview with a French television station while on a two-day trip to Egypt.
"Our goal is, (...)
At least 79 people have been killed and more than 150 injured after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic's capital Santo Domingo, officials have said.
A provincial governor and former Major League Baseball pitcher Octavio Dotel (...)
The UN's secretary-general says "aid has dried up [and] the floodgates of horror have re-opened" in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has blocked the entry of all goods and resumed the war against Hamas.
"Gaza is a killing field, and civilians are in an (...)
When paramedic Hassan Hosni Al-Hila felt too sick to continue his late-night assignment with the Palestine Red Crescent Society on March 23, his son gladly agreed to cover his shift.
That shift would prove to be 21-year-old Mohammad's last.
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At Columbia University, which has long borne witness to protests and dissent, the atmosphere has shifted under a new regime of policy changes ostensibly aimed at heightening security, according to CNN interviews with more than a dozen students and (...)
