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At least two people have been killed in a shooting in the port city of Hamburg, police said, in the second deadly shooting in the city this month. According to Press TV, the prosecutor’s office in Hamburg said one of the dead people was believed to be the alleged shooter. …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has charged the United States and NATO with seeking to build a new global “axis” which he said bore some resemblance to the World War II alliance between Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and imperial Japan. Speaking on state television on Sunday, Putin also criticized the US for …

The British government is locked in negotiations with up to 60 Conservative lawmakers trying to ban the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) from interfering with Britain’s controversial immigration policy. Home Secretary Suella Braverman said she was in talks with up to 60 Conservative MPs who want to stop Britain from …

Syria has condemned in the strongest terms the United States military for carrying out multiple air strikes in the eastern parts of the country against resistance groups, saying the raids are a cover-up for Washington’s ferocious attempts to further plunder energy resources there. Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates …

Former US President Donald Trump has held his first official rally for his 2024 presidential campaign in Waco, Texas, promising that “2024 will be the final battle” and that he will overcome the accusations against him. On Saturday, Trump hosted a rally in Waco’s regional airport that drew more than …

Top lawmakers from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party have backed the regime’s minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant’s call to halt the controversial judicial overhaul, fearing that the parliamentary majority could be eroded. On Sunday, Yuli Edelstein, a Likud lawmaker who chairs the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs Committee, called …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the United States and NATO of seeking to build a new global “axis” which he said bore some resemblance to the World War II alliance between Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and imperial Japan. Speaking on state television on Sunday, Putin also criticized the US …

France has banned government employees from using all types of social media platforms, gaming, and video-streaming apps on their work phones, citing cybersecurity and privacy concerns, amid widespread protests across the country. The ban, which comes into force immediately, includes Chinese-owned video-sharing TikTok application, Instagram, Candy Crush, and Netflix, the Ministry …

Top Indian opposition figure and Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi has pledged to continue fighting to preserve India’s democratic values, after he was expelled from the parliament following a defamation case over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Gandhi, 52, who represented a constituency in southern Kerala state as …

At least 19 people have been killed after a powerful tornado whipped through rural Mississippi, and led to flattening homes and knocking out power for thousands. According to the National Weather Service of the United States, the tornado hit Silver City and Rolling Fork on Friday night and caused damage about 60 …

Former US President Donald Trump has warned that filing court charges against him could result in “potential death & destruction,” escalating his attacks on the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation. Trump claimed on his Truth Social messaging platform on Friday that “NO Crime has been committed,” and warned of “catastrophic” results …

Criticism from human rights groups mounted on Friday over the brutality of French police in handling protests opposed to President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. French authorities arrested more than 450 people on Thursday in the most violent day of demonstrations since the start of the year against the bill to …

US President Joe Biden plotted to blow up Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines last year to punish Germany for refusing to supply arms to Ukraine in the midst of the conflict, a leading investigative American journalist has said. In an interview with China Daily, published on Friday, US Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist …

At least 23 people were killed and dozens injured as a tornado and strong thunderstorms swept across Mississippi late on Friday, the state’s emergency management agency said after the twister left a trail of damage for more than 100 miles (160 km). Four people were missing as search and rescue …

Firefighters said on Saturday they had stopped Spain’s first major wildfire of the year from spreading further through the eastern Valencia region, where it destroyed more than 4,000 hectares (9,884 acres) of forest and forced 1,500 residents to abandon their homes. An unusually dry winter across parts of southern Europe …

Kiev’s troops are suffering from a lack of ammunition, the Ukrainian president has said Ukraine has not yet accumulated enough resources to stage an offensive, President Vladimir Zelensky has admitted. In an interview released on Saturday by the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri, Zelensky said that the situation on the frontline “was …

Canadians have rallied outside the US embassy in Ottawa to demonstrate against the visit of President Joe Biden, and condemn the West’s supply of weapons to Ukraine. Chanting slogans, holding placards, and waving flags, protesters said the US is a belligerent country that is undermining peace and stability in the world, calling on Washington …

The move follows US oil giant’s pull-out from Chad in December Chad’s energy ministry has announced the nationalization of all the assets and rights that belonged to a subsidiary of US oil major ExxonMobil, including hydrocarbon permits as well as exploration and production permits, according to a Reuters report on …

Beijing insists it would never ask any Chinese company to collect data or intelligence abroad. China has rejected charges by US officials that TikTok is used to collect Americans’ data, rebutting the claims after the company’s CEO was grilled by lawmakers in Washington amid growing calls to ban the popular …

Aleksandar Vucic was marking the 24th anniversary of the bloc’s bombing campaign, which killed thousands Serbians could only forget the “aggression” unleashed by the US-led NATO, in 1999, if their country ceases to exist, President Aleksandar Vucic warned on Friday. He was marking the 24th anniversary of the military bloc’s …