TUESDAY, 15 JULY 2025, 23:45
As Israel and Iran trade fire in their most intense confrontation in history, members of the Iranian diaspora in Europe are torn between hopes for change and fears for their loved ones back home.
Nearly 13 million people have been uprooted from their homes in West and Central Africa. The UN Refugee Agency blames migration trends and conflict for creating a “perfect storm” of mass displacement.
Over 400 asylum seekers have landed at the small island of Gavdos near Crete, a new entry point increasingly used by migrant smugglers, the Greek coastguard said.
One person was killed and at least 14 were injured when Russian drones attacked the Ukrainian Black Sea city of Odesa overnight, damaging high-rise buildings and railway infrastructure, local authorities and prosecutors said.
New York’s pride parade, the highest-profile annual US LGBTQ gathering, is ramping up efforts to raise funds from individual community members with corporate donations on the wane as Washington demonises diversity.
India’s aviation regulator has warned Air India for breaching safety rules after three of its Airbus planes flew despite being overdue checks on emergency equipment, and for being slow to address the issue.
Governments around the world are evacuating thousands of their nationals caught up in the rapidly spiralling Israel-Iran conflict, organising buses and planes and, in some cases, assisting people crossing borders on foot.
Gulf sovereign wealth funds are rapidly expanding in Africa, filling a financing gap left by China’s strategic pullback and reshaping the continent’s development landscape
Francis refused the version of Catholicism that ingratiates itself with the powerful while abandoning the poor
The withdrawal from the World Health Organisation will take one year to come into effect
The majority of poll respondents in South Africa, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and other countries believe China will outpace the US in global influence over the next 20 years
Teams from the sheriff’s department continue sifting through rubble, using dogs to search for human remains
60% of respondents across 36 countries believe the political influence of the wealthy significantly contributes to economic inequality
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s fact checkers had been ‘too politically biased’
The move is part of what the president-elect has said is a ‘Save America’ initiative
Trump has been congratulated by various world leaders, with the Taliban government saying it hoped for a fresh start in relations between Afghanistan and the US
The former president said America could now start to ‘heal’
Bitcoin surged to over $75,000 as early returns appeared favourable for Trump on Tuesday night
On the eve of the election, Trump and Harris delivered closing arguments in a heated final push across battleground states
Key documents relating to Valerie Huber’s Protego project are being kept away from the public eye
Hosting the first summit of the expanded bloc allowed Putin to project influence in a shifting global order despite Western isolation
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