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A British maritime agency says one of the country’s vessels has come under “attack” off the coast of Yemen, with reports falling short of clarifying circumstances surrounding the incident. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organization said on Friday that the attack took place in the south of Yemen’s …

Morgues and hospitals in the city of Sfax are full, officials say, as the death toll from refugee shipwrecks soars. Tunisian coastguards have retrieved 41 bodies from Tunisian waters, a national guard official has said, raising the number of victims of refugee shipwrecks off the country’s coast to 210 in …

A Palestinian teenager has been fatally shot by Israeli forces during clashes in the south of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency said the 16-year-old Palestinian, identified as Mustafa Amer Sabbah, was killed on Friday by Israeli “live fire” during confrontations that broke out …

Earlier this week, Washington and Seoul agreed on the deployment of nuclear-armed US submarines to the region to deter North Korea. US plans to send submarines to South Korea armed with nuclear weapons will likely aggravate tensions in the region, China’s foreign ministry has said. Earlier this week, US President …

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has slammed US President Joe Biden over his advanced age, saying he isn’t likely to make it until 86 years old, which would be his age by the end of his second term if he were to win reelection in 2024. “I think we can …

Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian man in the central part of the occupied West Bank over an alleged stabbing and car-ramming attack against the regime’s troops. The Israeli military claimed in a statement that the incident occurred near the illegal settlement of Ariel, located close to the Palestinian …

The head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) in Chad said it expects to see more refugees fleeing across the border from Sudan to escape the fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Around 10,000 to 20,000 Sudanese have already crossed the border into Chad …

The incident occurred in the tribal-dominated Dantewada district, a hotbed of insurgency activities in Chhattisgarh. Radical left-wing rebels are suspected of being behind an improvised explosive device (IED) blast that killed ten security personnel and a driver in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh on Wednesday, police have said. The …

A nuclear attack by Pyongyang would “result in the end” of Kim Jong-un’s regime, the US president has warned. US President Joe Biden declared on Wednesday that a North Korean nuclear attack on his country or South Korea would spell doom for Pyongyang. Under a new agreement between Washington and …

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied on Thursday appointed a new ambassador to Syria, the Tunisian presidency said in a statement, the latest Arab move to end Syria’s regional isolation. Tunisia cut off diplomatic relations with Syria nearly a decade ago to protest Assad’s crackdown on 2011 demonstrations that developed into civil …

The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy has seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Sea of Oman and directed it toward the country’s territorial waters after the ship hit an Iranian vessel and tried to flee in violation of maritime regulations. According to the public relations department of the …

The UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories has been the target of what she describes as a Israel’s “smear campaign” that aims to expel her over antisemitism accusations. Francesca Albanese has faced a concerted campaign from Israeli right-wing NGOs, papers, and politicians …

New figures released by a major British food charity organization unveil that more than a million children in the European country received food aid in the past 12 months amid a deepening cost-of-living crisis. According to the latest stats released by the Trussell Trust charity, which supports some 1,200 food …

US consumer confidence fell more than many predicted in April, fueled by a deterioration in expectations among over-55s and households with annual incomes over $50,000, according to survey data released Tuesday. The pessimistic results may ease some of the pressure on the Federal Reserve as it prepares to consider raising …

In a new agreement with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, US President Joe Biden has pledged to deploy nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea for the first time in four decades to defend its ally from what they claim to be growing nuclear threats from North Korea. The agreement was …

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill to raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, defying Democratic President Joe Biden by attaching sweeping spending cuts for the next decade. The mostly partisan 217-215 vote was a win for Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who hopes to …

The global trend of substituting the US dollar with local currencies in trade transactions is speeding up as more countries are ditching the greenback. on Wednesday, Argentina said it will pay for Chinese imports in yuan instead of dollars to preserve its international reserves. In a meeting in Buenos Aires …

Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, the only way to end the war in Ukraine is negotiation between Kiev and Moscow. According to a report by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on Wednesday, “Xi Jinping had a phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky,” during which he said “talks …

The US military is set to deploy nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea in a purported move to show its resolve to protect Seoul against the North Korea. The US will send an Ohio-class US Navy nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) to South Korea as part of a so-called Washington Declaration …

The Sudanese army has launched airstrikes against positions of paramilitary forces in the capital Khartoum despite its acceptance of extending a ceasefire. The army said it’s jets pounded the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum on Thursday. The army further declared late Wednesday that it had agreed to talks …