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Investigations into claims of abuse by British troops in Iraq have closed without a single prosecution being brought, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said on Tuesday. Allegations against British soldiers who served in the conflict — and elsewhere around the world — have dogged the government and military. But in June …

Ethiopian government airstrikes hit the capital of the northern Tigray region on Wednesday, the third such attack this week in a stepped-up campaign to weaken rebellious Tigrayan forces in an almost one-year-old war. Tigrai Television, controlled by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), said the attack targeted the center of …

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that the alliance would still need to talk to Russia after Moscow suspended its diplomatic mission to the alliance over an espionage dispute. That means relying on a hotline between Russia’s chief of general staff, Valery Gerasimov, and Tod Wolters, NATO’s Supreme Allied …

Long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a peat bog and stream at the northern tip of Canada’s island of Newfoundland, evidence that the Vikings had reached the New World first. But precisely when the Vikings journeyed to establish the …

Hundreds of anti-vaccine protesters joined some political leaders in Sofia on Wednesday to demonstrate against Bulgaria’s decision to make a COVID-19 “Green Certificate” mandatory for access to restaurants, theatres, and shopping malls. The interim health ministry announced the move on Tuesday to try to slow a surge in infections and …

A volcano erupted in Japan on Wednesday, blasting ash several miles into the sky and prompting officials to warn against the threat of lava flows and falling rocks, but there were no reports of injuries or casualties. Mount Aso, a tourist destination on the main southern island of Kyushu, sent …

Israeli forces have violently attacked Palestinian demonstrators during a national ceremony for Prophet Muhammad’s (Blessings of God upon him and his progeny) birthday anniversary in the occupied East al-Quds, leaving dozens of people injured and arresting as many others. Media reports said the clashes took place on Tuesday when Palestinians …

Hundreds of people in Bahrain have once again staged demonstrations to protest against the Manama regime’s normalization of ties with Israel and to demand the immediate release of political prisoners. Bahrainis held a rally in the village of Sanabis late on Tuesday to voice strong protest against Manama’s concession to …

The United Nations Middle East envoy has censured Israel’s unlawful demolitions and settlement expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as well as the crippling siege the regime has imposed on Gaza, complaining of a lack of progress in efforts to achieve a so-called two‑state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. …

Pakistan’s military claims it “detected and blocked” an Indian military submarine from entering Pakistani territorial waters earlier this week. The Pakistani military said in a statement on Tuesday that the attempted incursion by the Indian submarine had occurred on Saturday night. It said the submarine had been “prematurely detected and …

The National Health Service is on the brink of being overwhelmed in many parts of the UK amid increasing pressure as winter approaches, the head of a healthcare system body has warned. Infections have been increasing markedly since the start of October, however, the government is resisting introducing the extra …

An American aircraft has crash-landed with 21 people on board in a field near an airport west of Downtown Houston in proximity to Brookshire. One person sustained minor injuries in the crash. Authorities said the McDonnell Douglas MD-87 rolled through a fence and caught fire in a field while doing …

Steve Bannon, the chief strategist in the administration of former US President Donald Trump, has been denied a chance to avoid being referred to prosecution by a House committee probing the Jan. 6 deadly insurrection at the US Capitol. The US House committee had released a criminal contempt report against …

The United Nations’ nuclear organization has sounded the alarm over Australia’s plan to obtain nuclear-powered submarines. Under a trilateral deal between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States dubbed AUKUS, Australia will be given nuclear-propulsion technology for submarines. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) set up a task force to …

More than 100 people have died in several days of massive flooding and devastating landslides that swept away roads and houses in India and Nepal, officials said Wednesday, with scores more missing. According to reports, in Uttarakhand in northern India, officials said that 46 people had died in recent days …

Ten thousand Yemeni children have been killed or maimed since a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened in March 2015 after the Yemeni forces ousted the government, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said on Tuesday. “The Yemen conflict has just hit another shameful milestone. We now have 10,000 …

Israel has decided to push ahead with a plan to build 7,000 new settler units in the occupied side of Syria’s Golan Heights, despite a global outcry. The so-called Israeli ‘Ministry of Housing’ is currently in the process of implementing the controversial plan, which is scheduled to complete in 2026, …

A commuter plane came down near Houston, Texas on Tuesday and burst into flames, according to dramatic footage from the scene. Incredibly, all of the 21 people on board were able to escape from the aircraft, local officials said. The crash occurred in Waller County, near the town of Katy, …

A US federal jury convicted an Illinois man on Monday for creating a computer script intending to help ISIS spread propaganda online, according to a Department of Justice statement. Chicago man Thomas Osadzinski, 22, designed a computer script that he believed would make it easier for ISIS to reproduce its …

The new Taliban government said on Tuesday it hoped to build on the “good progress” made in talks with the former US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Zalmai Khalilzad and was optimistic about moving forward with his successor Tom West. Khalilzad’s departure as the top US envoy for Afghanistan was announced …