The death toll in a nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican Republic rose to 226 on Saturday, as authorities said they had returned all victims' bodies to their loved ones

The businesspeople expressed concern about continued economic turbulence

The Trump administration has announced a series of major exemptions to its punishing global tariffs -- an apparent step back in an escalating trade war with China.

China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao told the head of the World Trade Organization that US tariffs will “inflict serious harm” on poor nations, according to a ministry statement released yesterday.

Israel yesterday announced that its military had completed the takeover of a new corridor in southern Gaza, advancing its efforts to seize large parts of the war-battered Palestinian territory.

Members of the World Health Organization are close to a deal on a treaty to prepare for future pandemics, sources involved in the talks told Reuters on Saturday, with a WHO spokesperson saying discussions had been paused until Tuesday.

The United States wants a nuclear agreement “as soon as possible”, Iran said after rare talks yesterday, as US President Donald Trump threatens military action if they fail to reach a deal.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was leading Iran's delegation while the talks on the US side -- the first during Trump's tenure in the White House -- were being handled by his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff

The delegation will be led by the group's chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya

The meeting between Hamas and Egyptian mediators come amid ongoing violence in Gaza

It will reduce about 2,600 staff

The powerful winds stemmed mainly from a cold vortex system formed over Mongolia

An estimated 14,600 Afghans eligible for Temporary Protected Status will now lose it in May

No new humanitarian supplies have entered the Palestinian enclave since Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks on March 2

Trump is a prolific golfer who abstains from alcohol and cigarettes.

The ruling by Judge Jamee Comans of the LaSalle Immigration Court in Louisiana was not a final determination of Khalil's fate.

Donald Trump took his rivalry with Barack Obama to the walls of the White House Friday, replacing a portrait of the former US president with one of himself surviving an assassination attempt

President Donald Trump insisted Friday that his tariff policy was "doing really well" despite China hiking levies on US goods to 125 percent in the spiraling trade war between the world's two biggest economies

Medicine stocks are critically low due to the aid block in Gaza, making it hard to keep hospitals even partially operational, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

The top UN trade official on Thursday urged the United States to spare the poorest countries “the pain of tariffs,” as the world braces for a possible global trade war unleashed by President Donald Trump.