A strong earthquake rocked eastern Afghanistan including the capital Kabul yesterday, AFP journalists and residents said.

More than 75,000 Palestinians were killed in the first 15 months of Israel’s military assault in Gaza, a figure far higher than the 49,000 deaths local health officials announced at the time, says a new study by The Lancet Global Health medical journal.

President Donald Trump warned Iran on Thursday it must make a deal over its nuclear programme or “really bad things” will happen, and set a deadline of 10 to 15 days, drawing a threat from Tehran to retaliate against US bases in the region if attacked.

The US Supreme Court yesterday ruled Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs illegal -- a stunning rebuke of the president’s signature economic policy that upended international trade.

Vows 10% global tariff after stinging court rebuke

Supreme Court ruling could refund $175 billion in tariffs

US President criticizes decision during meeting with state governors

Trump invoked law meant for emergencies to impose tariffs

Rule introduced to align dual nationals with UK’s new ETA system and to prevent confusion in border checks

Accused detained on charges of 'disseminating misleading information' and 'insulting the president'

Photo, taken by Phil Noble, went viral when it was published on Thursday

Boies Schiller Flexner, a law firm representing Epstein victims, announced the settlement in a brief, filed in federal court in Manhattan

Mountbatten-Windsor, who turned 66 on Thursday, had been questioned all day by detectives from Thames Valley Police

Didn't specify whether classified documents would be released to the public

Earlier on Thursday, Trump gave Iran 15 days to make a deal

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview made public on Wednesday, said that any new US strike on Iran would have serious consequences and called for restraint to find a solution to enable Iran to pursue a peaceful nuclear programme.

The United States is planning to withdraw all of its 1,000 troops from Syria over the next two months, according to US media reports.

King Charles’ younger brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested yesterday on suspicion of misconduct in public office over allegations he sent confidential government documents to Jeffrey Epstein.

Thousands of years from now, what will remain of our digital era? The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer stored in libraries, but on hard drives that struggle to last decades, let alone millennia.

The UN’s independent fact-finding mission on Sudan said yesterday the paramilitary siege and capture of El-Fasher bore “the hallmarks of genocide”.