Pacific island nation's four-time prime minister was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in early February.

Pentagon spokesman says move was in response to recent rocket attacks on US troops in Iraq.

The US has targeted Iran-backed militia in Syria, multiple media reported, citing unnamed officials. The airstrikes were approved by US President Joe Biden and intended as reprisal for rocket attacks on US bases...

US State Department spokesman Ned Price called for a fair hearing for Matthew Heath, who was detained in September.

Some of the asylum seekers have been there more than a year due to immigration rules set by former President Trump.

Calls are growing for sanctions on the military's vast business empire after the February 1 coup.

Amnesty says hundreds of civilians were killed by Eritrean troops in Ethiopian town of Axum last November.

John Geddert, who coached the US Gymnastics team to gold at the 2012 Olympics and worked with disgraced doctor Larry Nassar, has committed suicide after being charged with sexual assault, human trafficking and a...

The European Union has declared Venezuela’s chief diplomat at the bloc “persona non grata,” calling the move retaliation after Caracas expelled the EU’s ambassador in protest over a new round of sanctions from B...

Biden affirms US commitment to Saudi defence, calls for diplomacy in Yemen and praises release of rights activists.

Twitter has announced upcoming massive changes to their platform, including allowing users to get paid by followers and the ability to create groups based on certain subjects. Users w...

Angela Merkel says the bloc must prepare to vaccinate for new coronavirus variants across the coming years.

President Joe Biden is halfway through his pledge to vaccinate 100 million Americans in his first 100 days in office. 

Controversial plan to ship surplus coronavirus vaccines to a group of allied nations frozen amid legal challenge.

Paris Deputy Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire has said that his administration will likely place the French capital under a harsh three-week lockdown to curb Covid-19, and he doesn’t care what President Emmanuel Macron t...

With borders shut tight due to the coronavirus pandemic, the diplomats from the Russian mission in Pyongyang had to saddle a handcar and push it all by themselves to make it home from North Korea....

Lawyer says move would violate the law, adding that Navalny's relatives have not been informed of his whereabouts.

As refineries in Texas reopen after last week's freeze, concerns over OPEC+'s willingness to continue output cuts grow.

Rachel Levine, President Joe Biden’s nominee for assistant health secretary, evaded questioning on her past support for child sex changes during her Senate confirmation hearing, a move that left GOP Senator Rand...

Andrew Cuomo's office has reportedly posted an ad seeking a communications director to handle “messaging” for the state’s many scandals, from nursing home death coverups to sexual harassment allegations to endle...

UN's human rights chief said Sri Lankan government is failing to pursue those responsible for war crimes.

Swedish striker, who has Bosnian roots, was subjected to ethnic abuse by an individual seated in a VIP box in Serbia.

Palestinian Authority foreign minister denounces Israel sending vaccines to foreign allies as 'political blackmail'.

The raise comes amid US President Joe Biden's plans to raise the national minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025.

Historically low mortgage rates in the US spurred a pandemic housing boom, which the rising cost of borrowing may cool.

Armenian army demands PM's resignation, prompting thousands of his supporters to rally against 'coup attempt'.

A district attorney in New York state has obtained Donald Trump's tax returns and other financial records.

Lindsey Boylan, a former aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, has finally come forward with the details of her alleged harassment – only to be confronted by cricket chirps, as the #MeToo crusaders seem to hav...

Preliminary trials show that a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by German biotech firm Curevac is effective against the UK and South Africa variants of the virus, its CEO Franz-Werner Haas told EU lawmakers on T...

UFC middleweight Kevin Holland has insinuated that Khamzat Chimaev’s battle with the lingering effects of Covid stem from the Russian-born star not having “heart” – citing his own comparatively light brush with...

US prosecutors say Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez accepted a bribe from Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo'.

LGBTG protections will be enshrined in US law if bill survives a steep climb to 60 votes in the Senate.

Former president Donald Trump has reportedly handed over his tax returns to prosecutors in New York. With Trump describing the investigation as a “fishing expedition,” sifting through the “millions of pages” may...

AMC Entertainment, Koss Corp, and Nokia Oyj also gained as retail traders revived the surge in Reddit-treasured stocks.

Spinners take 28 out of 30 wickets to fall as tourists handed two-day hammering at world's biggest cricket stadium.

The court affirmed that Uber drivers are workers and they should be treated as such.

The global economy is at risk of a 'dangerous and permanent divergence', the US Treasury secretary warned G20 officials.

A total of 68,952 fixed penalty notices have been handed out by police officers in England and Wales since Covid-19 laws came into effect last year, with more than 10,000 given in London alone....

Author and cancel culture critic James Lindsay was set to appear at an event for the Harvard Business School Club of New York, but in an ironic twist, organizers got cold feet and cancelled the entire event....

Foreign ministry denial follows reports from Washington that some of its personnel were being made to undergo the test.

Two counties in Georgia ask for over $15k in legal fees related to lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign.

Violence erupted after former interior minister Mohamed Bazoum was declared winner of Sunday's runoff vote.

A Virginia student is leaving her high school after staff failed to do anything about a mass email blasting her for choosing to highlight conservative pundit Candace Owens as a “black trailblazer.”...

Amid a slow vaccine rollout in the European Union, several of the bloc’s member states say they were contacted by middlemen who offered to sell them some 900 million doses of Covid-19 jabs, EU anti-fraud agency...

A Ukrainian judge has ordered four major news channels on the Telegram messaging service to be blocked across the country, just weeks after the government banned a series of opposition-owned broadcasters and onl...

South Africa's Olympic champion challenges restrictions of testosterone in female athletes.

Fed systems executing millions of transactions a day went down Wednesday due to what seemed to be an internal glitch.

The Kremlin critic stopped attending far-right rallies many years ago, but he still supports anti-migrant measures.