Nato yesterday said it had launched a new mission to bolster security in the Arctic, in a move to assuage US President Donald Trump after he backed off claims on Greenland.

Germany on Tuesday issued an advisory against all non-essential travel to Cuba, where US pressure has created an oil crisis.

The monks began their walk in Texas more than three months ago, at times braving frigid winter temperatures, sometimes with bare feet, to raise "awareness of peace, loving kindness, and compassion across America and the world."

A suspected shooter was also found dead from what ⁠appears to be a self‑inflicted injury

Cataracts are on the rise as populations get older, with age being the main risk factor

US immigration agencies faced heavy criticism in Congress for defending Donald Trump's mass deportation drive

China insisted yesterday that Tokyo must first show “concrete actions” after Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she was “open to various dialogues” with Beijing, effectively rejecting her overtures.

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell refused Monday to answer questions from US lawmakers but her attorney said she was prepared to speak if granted clemency by US President Donald Trump.

Israeli forces killed four people, including a child, in southern Lebanon on Monday evening, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported, citing the health ministry, in two separate strikes that the Israeli military said targeted members of the Shia Muslim armed group Hezbollah.

Anti-graft watchdog Transparency International (TI) yesterday warned of worsening corruption in democracies worldwide and said the United States had slid to the lowest-ever score on its 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index.

Europe should brace for more moments of US hostility, French President Emmanuel Macron has warned, and should treat what he called the “Greenland moment” as a wake up call to push through long delayed reforms to strengthen the bloc’s global power.

A White House official on Monday reiterated US President Donald Trump’s opposition toward Israel annexing the West Bank.

Nuclear talks with the United States allowed Tehran to gauge Washington’s seriousness and showed enough consensus to continue on the diplomatic track, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said yesterday.

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient injuries

Maxwell, 64, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to discuss her relations with Epstein

The outcome is the LDP's best in its history and allows Japan's first woman prime minister to stamp her mark on the country of 123 million people over the next four years

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was scrambling to shore up his premiership yesterday, as another top aide quit and he prepared to face lawmakers furious that his government has become embroiled in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

The International Organization for Migration said the boat overturned north of Zuwara on Friday

Machado claimed that her close ally had been "kidnapped" in the capital Caracas by armed men "dressed in civilian clothes" who took him away by force

A glitch with an alarm in January forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster