The death toll from a gas station explosion that shattered a small village in northwest Ireland rose to 10 and emergency workers who combed through piles of rubble said they did not expect to find more bodies. Irish police said no one remained missing after […]
Russia appointed a new general to lead the war against Ukraine after Moscow suffered a series of military setbacks that triggered rare criticism of the battlefield command. The announcement on Saturday was Moscow’s third senior military appointment in the space of a week. The change […]
Somalia’s government has declared a crackdown on media organisations that publish what it deems propaganda for the armed group al-Shabab, warning offenders will be punished. The armed forces, backed by local militias and international allies, have waged an aggressive campaign against the al-Qaeda-linked group. “I […]
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles towards its eastern waters – the latest in its barrage of weapons tests after Pyongyang warned against the US redeployment of an aircraft carrier for a new round of drills with South Korean warships. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs […]
Djibouti‘s military said seven soldiers were killed in a clash with an armed group in the East African country’s north. A statement from the defence ministry on Saturday said the attack occurred a day earlier at an army base in Garabtisan. The ministry blamed the […]
Time is running out for Europe to contain soaring natural gas prices. Russia was the continent’s main provider until it invaded Ukraine earlier this year. Sanctions and disruptions to pipelines have dented supplies, so households and businesses are being forced to pay several times more […]
Ukraine’s besieged Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant lost its last external power source as a result of renewed artillery fire and is now relying on emergency diesel generators. The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the plant’s link to a 750-kilovolt line was cut at […]
Schoolgirls chanted slogans, workers went on strike and street clashes erupted across Iran as protests over the death of Mahsa Amini entered a fourth week in defiance of a bloody crackdown. Anger flared after the 22-year-old Iranian-Kurd’s death on September 16, three days after she […]
An act of “sabotage” targeting communication infrastructure was to blame for a major disruption on the German railway network. Federal police are investigating the incident, Minister of the Interior and Community Nancy Faeser said on Saturday, adding the motive for it was unclear. The apparent […]
Lawyer Sittra Biebangkerd (second from right at table) briefs reporters on the case of an Israeli man whose life was threatened by a Thai army officer, at his law firm on Thursday. (Photo from Sittra Biebangkerd Facebook) The army has admitted that a soldier threatened […]
