At least 43 people have died and millions left without power on Friday as Hurricane Helene roared through the south-eastern US. It was the most powerful storm on record to hit Florida's Big Bend and moved north into Georgia and the Carolinas after making landfall overnight on

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the country’s military to continue fighting with “full force” against the armed group Hezbollah, despite calls from the US and other allies for a ceasefire. Lebanon's health ministry said at least 92 people were

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with US President Joe Biden and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, as the Ukrainian leader sought to shore up more support ahead of the United States election in November. The series of Washington, DC meetings on Thursday

Tunisian authorities announced Wednesday that the bodies of 13 irregular migrants of African descent had been recovered off the coast of the city of Mahdia in the eastern part of the country. Farid ben Haja, the official spokesman for the Mahdia and Monastir courts, told Anadolu that

Japan has sent a destroyer through the Taiwan Strait for the first time, Japanese media reported, amid increasing military activity around Japan by China. The Sazanami entered the strait from the East China Sea on Wednesday morning, spending more than 10 hours sailing south to complete

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday survived a vote of no confidence in the first major test of his minority Liberal government whose popularity has waned after nine years in office. His tenuous grip on power, however, is already set to face more challenges in the

The US and France have called for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to make way for broader negotiations, as the UN secretary general, António Guterres, told a UN security council meeting that “hell is breaking loose” in Lebanon.

Israeli attacks killed 72 people across Lebanon on Wednesday, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health says, as the death toll from Israel’s bombings surpasses 620. Some 500,000 people may now have been displaced by Israel’s massive bombing campaign across Lebanon,

Amid the threat of a wider Middle East war, Israeli warplanes pounded towns and villages in Lebanon on Monday, conducting airstrikes on what the Israeli military said were more than 1,100 Hezbollah targets. The strikes killed 492 people and wounded 1,645 others, including 58 women and

Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said the death toll in Israeli strikes Monday rose to 274, including 21 children, the bloodiest daily toll in nearly a year of cross-border clashes. The toll stood at "274 dead including 21 children and 39 women -- that's who we know about

A mass shooting involving several assailants has left at least four people dead and dozens wounded in the US state of Alabama, police said on Saturday. “We believe that multiple shooters fired multiple shots on a group of people” in the Five Points South district of

The Israeli military said on Monday it was conducting extensive strikes against targets of the Hezbollah group in Lebanon. The military gave no further details of the strikes, which come amid some of the heaviest cross-border exchanges of fire in nearly a year of conflict. Source:

A blast caused by a gas leak at an Iranian coal mine has killed at least 51 people, state media said on Sunday, in one of the country’s deadliest work accidents in years. “The number of dead workers increased to 51” in the explosion at the Tabas mine in eastern Iran,

Sri Lanka's election commission declared a previously fringe Marxist politician the country's president-elect on Sunday after a vote coloured by discontent over the island nation's response to an unprecedented financial crisis. Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old

A previously fringe Marxist politician is on course to become Sri Lanka's next leader after a presidential vote coloured by discontent over the island nation's response to an unprecedented financial crisis. The ongoing count in yesterday's poll showed Anura Kumara

Leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the United States are taking new security steps in the Indian Ocean as outgoing US President Joe Biden hosts counterparts from the Quad grouping established due to shared concerns about China. Biden welcomed Australian Prime Minister Anthony

An overnight curfew has been imposed across Sri Lanka after voting ended in the presidential election as the island nation seeks to recover from an unprecedented economic crisis that triggered mass protests and forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee. Police announced the

Former US President Donald Trump has said he will not take part in a second TV debate ahead of November's presidential election. While Vice-President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party's candidate, accepted an invitation to the CNN debate on 23 October, Republican nominee

French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled his new government almost three months after a snap general election delivered a hung parliament. The long-awaited new line up, led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier, marks a decisive shift to the right, even though a left-wing alliance won

An Israeli air strike on a school in Gaza City has killed at least 22 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry. The school, closed during the war, was housing displaced people, the health ministry said. The Israel Defense Forces