Contaminating water and soil, human-made “forever chemicals” widely used since the mid-20th century, are facing increasing regulation worldwide.

The death toll from a major earthquake in Myanmar has risen above 3 300, state media said Saturday, as the United Nations aid chief made a renewed call for the world to help the disaster-struck nation.

TikTok on Friday was hours from a deadline to find a non-Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted on Friday by the Constitutional Court, ushering in an election after it upheld parliament’s impeachment over his imposition of martial law that sparked the nation’s worst political crisis in decades.

US President Donald Trump, his Vice President JD Vance and billionaire backer Elon Musk have all voiced their support to French far-right leader Marine Le Pen after she was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running in France’s 2027 presidential election.

China on Friday announced a slew of countermeasures against tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, including additional tariffs of 34% on all US goods and curbs on export of some rare earths.

For most of this decade, the OPEC+ alliance has been the world’s most stalwart defender of high oil prices. In just a few moments this week, that role reversed dramatically.

US President Donald Trump imposed a 50% reciprocal tariff on the tiny southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, the highest levy for any sovereign nation – and the country Trump recently said “nobody has ever heard of”.

April 2 -As the weekend deadline for TikTok to find a buyer approaches, bidders for the short-video social media site are piling up.

US President Donald Trump has told members of his Cabinet and other close contacts that his billionaire ally Elon Musk will soon step back from his government role, according to reports.

The US has some of the lowest tariffs in the world. Trump wants to reverse that with reciprocal tariffs on April 2.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday asked federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who allegedly gunned down an American health care CEO in a brazen attack.

White House aides are proposing tariffs of around 20% on most US imports, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, as markets and consumers await details of US President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff plan.

An Abu Dhabi court sentenced three people to death and one to life in prison on Monday for the November murder of an Israeli rabbi “with terrorist intention”, state media said.

Myanmar declared a week of national mourning on Monday over the country’s devastating earthquake, as the death toll passed 2 000 and hopes faded of finding more survivors in the rubble of ruined buildings.

The head of fast fashion chain Primark, Paul Marchant, has resigned with immediate effect after he admitted to an “error of judgment” towards a woman in a social situation late last year.

Japan’s economy could lose as much as $1.81 trillion in the event of a long-anticipated megaquake off its Pacific coast.

A senior Hamas official on Monday called on supporters worldwide to pick up weapons and fight US President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate more than two million Gazans to neighbouring countries such as Egypt and Jordan.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been convicted of embezzlement and handed an immediate five-year ban from public office, a sentence that will bar her from running in the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully appeals beforehand.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the US would receive a strong blow if it acts on President Donald Trump’s threat to bomb unless Tehran reaches a new nuclear deal with Washington.

Residents scoured collapsed buildings Sunday searching for survivors as aftershocks rattled the devastated city of Mandalay, two days after a massive earthquake killed at least 1 700 people in Myanmar and at least 18 in neighbouring Thailand.