The world is arming itself at the fastest rate since near the end of the Cold War, according to a new report, as major wars rage in Ukraine and Gaza and military tensions spike from Europe to Asia.
The 9.4% year-on-year rise to $2.718 trillion in (...)
Harvard University President Alan Garber has apologized following the release of internal reports into antisemitic and anti-Muslim prejudice at America's oldest university.
The reports included testimony from students who described feeling alienated (...)
A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet has been lost at sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier while it was being towed on board, the Navy said in a statement on Monday.
A US official said initial reports from (...)
President Donald Trump is set to take action to ease the impact of his tariffs on US car makers, a top White House official says.
"This deal is a major victory for the President's trade policy by rewarding companies who manufacture domestically," (...)
US President Donald Trump has said he thinks his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky is willing to give up Crimea to Russia as part of a peace deal — despite Kyiv's previous rejections of any such proposal.
Asked if he thought the Ukrainian (...)
Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have demolished the houses of at least 10 alleged militants and detained more people for questioning as investigations continue into last week's killings of 26 people.
Indian security forces have used (...)
Canadians head to the polls on Monday to vote in an election that is being read by many as a referendum on the country's relationship with the United States, after its president waged economic war and even threatened to annex its northern (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a temporary ceasefire in the war in Ukraine.
The Kremlin has said the ceasefire will run from the morning of 8 May until the 11 May — which coincides with victory celebrations to mark the end of World (...)
The US military says it has hit more than 800 targets since launching sustained air and naval strikes against the Houthi movement in Yemen on 15 March. In a statement on Sunday summarizing recent operations, US Central Command said it had "killed (...)
The Chinese coastguard has seized a tiny sandbank in the South China Sea, state media has reported, in an escalation of a regional dispute with the Philippines.
State broadcaster CCTV released images of four officers, wearing all black and holding (...)
Russia described the latest round of talks between President Vladimir Putin and visiting US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff as "constructive and very useful," the Kremlin announced on Friday.
Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov, who participated in the (...)
The Trump administration has reversed its decision to terminate visas for hundreds of foreign students, a move that had sparked widespread panic and legal challenges across US universities.
US Justice Department attorney Elizabeth Kurlan informed a (...)
WASHINGTON — Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, and World Bank Group President Ajay Banga issued a joint statement on Syria during the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International (...)
Negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear programme are set to resume on Saturday in the Omani capital Muscat, where technical experts from both sides will attempt to iron out the details of a potential (...)
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 (...)
Donald Trump has signed a controversial executive order aimed at stepping up deep-sea mining within US and in international waters.
Thursday's order is the latest issued by the US president to try to increase America's access to minerals used by the (...)
China will let scientists from six countries, including the US, examine the rocks it collected from the Moon — a scientific collaboration that comes as the two countries remain locked in a bitter trade war.
Two Nasa-funded US institutions have been (...)
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US and China have been on trade talks after Beijing denied any negotiations on tariffs.
"They had a meeting this morning," Trump told reporters during a meeting with Norway's Prime Minister at the (...)
President Donald Trump slammed Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday for his comments that Ukraine wouldn't recognize Russian control of Crimea, calling the remarks "very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia."
"It's (...)
China has sent back planes it ordered from the US in its latest retaliation over Trump tariffs, the boss of aircraft maker Boeing has said.
Kelly Ortberg said two planes had already been returned and another would follow after trade tensions between (...)
The voice in the Telegram video is insistent. Loud. Sometimes musical.
And the message unambiguous.
"All of Hamas, out!"
On the streets of Gaza, more and more Palestinians are expressing open defiance against the armed group that's ruled the strip (...)
US President Donald Trump has delighted global investors with the possibility of a reduction in tariffs on Chinese imports. But his apparent willingness to de-escalate America's trade war with the world's second-biggest economy has been brushed off (...)
In recent weeks, European nations have been grappling with a shifting geopolitical reality: the United States, under President Donald Trump's influence and perhaps again in the near future, appears increasingly insistent that Europe should manage (...)
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump will travel to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on an official trip starting on May 13, the White House has confirmed.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt has announced dates for Trump's (...)
WASHINGTON — Saudi Minister of Finance Mohammed Al-Jadaan participated in a roundtable meeting at the US Chamber of Commerce on the sidelines of the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in (...)
