US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday threatening to impose additional tariffs on countries that sell oil to Cuba, further increasing pressure on the communist-led island.

Russia’s capital Moscow has this month seen the largest snowfall in more than 200 years, Moscow State University meteorologists said on Thursday.

Visiting Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday that Britain has a “huge amount to offer” China, after his bid to forge closer ties prompted warnings from US President Donald Trump.

Ukraine is ready to reciprocate if Russia halts its attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure that has plunged the capital Kyiv into cold, President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday, adding there was no formal truce between the two countries.

President Tayyip Erdogan told his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian in a call yesterday that Turkey was ready to play a facilitator role between Iran and the United States to ease the tensions between the two sides, the Turkish presidency said.

Global problems will not be solved by one power “calling the shots” or by splitting the world into rival spheres, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday in comments directed at the United States and China.

Arrest follows coverage of protest that disrupted Minnesota church service

Government cites "proliferation" leading to abuses and divisions

Tehran reiterates it has "never sought to obtain nuclear weapons"

UK will not lift sanctions on Chinese individuals in return

Earlier said, time was 'running out' for Tehran

Kremlin didn't immediately confirm any truce

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday that he wanted to build a “sophisticated relationship” with Beijing to bolster security and the economy, signalling a reset after years of strained ties.

Security forces were deployed around the international airport in Niger’s capital yesterday after heavy gunfire and explosions erupted overnight in what several observers said bore the hallmark of a jihadist attack.

As preparations accelerate for the partial Israeli reopening of Gaza’s Rafah border crossing, tentatively scheduled for Sunday, a simmering dispute has erupted between Egypt and Israel regarding which and how many Palestinians may leave and return.

Venezuela’s military and police pledged loyalty Wednesday to interim president Delcy Rodriguez, whom the United States kept in power after ousting Nicolas Maduro.

The United States is closely watching developments in China after the removal of a top general, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday, as he pointed to corruption as the cause.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is ending the contracts of all 365 staff in Houthi-controlled Yemen, a UN official told AFP yesterday, effectively ending operations in a zone gravely afflicted by hunger.

Kyiv said yesterday that it had received from Russia 1,000 remains of people that Moscow said were Ukrainian soldiers killed fighting the Kremlin’s army.

An airplane carrying 15 people, including a lawmaker, crashed near Colombia’s border with Venezuela on Wednesday, killing all passengers and crew, Colombia’s civil aviation authority said.