Tehran, Iran – Two French nationals arrested by Iranian intelligence last week helped organise protests by teachers, Iran’s state television has said. The broadcaster aired a four-minute report on Tuesday that provided more details about the arrest of the two earlier in May, which prompted […]
Two top United States military officials are set to testify in the first public congressional hearing on “unidentified flying objects” (UFOs) in more than 50 years. The hearing on Tuesday comes 11 months after a US government report detailed 144 UFO – or as they […]
Beirut, Lebanon – Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies have lost their majority in Lebanon’s parliament after the country’s general election results were announced. The Shia party’s allies suffered losses across the country, according to results released by the Interior Ministry on Tuesday. The pro-Hezbollah bloc […]
Jerusalem – At a cafe in central Jerusalem, a middle-aged couple, Leonid from Belarus and Olga from Dagestan, discussed the war in Ukraine over coffee and bourekas. “As Jews, we have often wondered about this: how it was possible that in Germany, a whole nation […]
Here are the key events so far on Tuesday, May 17. Get the latest updates here. Fighting More than 260 Ukrainian fighters have been evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol to Russian-held territories, and efforts to rescue the remaining ones are continuing, Ukraine’s deputy […]
The hospital in the small eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was never intended to receive queues of ambulances bringing the wounded and traumatised from the front line of Europe’s biggest battlefield. Nor did the volunteer paramedics expect, four months ago, to be shuttling back and […]
Ethiopia and the World Bank have signed a pact for a grant of $300m to assist reconstruction and recovery in conflict-hit areas, the finance ministry said. Fighting that erupted in the northern region of Tigray in November 2020, and spilled over into neighbouring Afar and […]
Shares in Life Insurance Corp of India (LIC) slid 6 percent in their market debut on Tuesday, a fresh setback for the state-owned giant after its IPO, while record-breaking, raised far less for the government than initially envisioned. India’s biggest insurer and largest domestic financial […]
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed Turkey’s opposition to NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, shooting down a proposal by the Nordic countries to send delegations to Ankara to address the matter. “We will not say ‘yes’ to those [countries] who apply sanctions to Turkey […]
North Korea has reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be COVID-19 as the government mobilised a “powerful force” of soldiers to distribute drugs and deployed thousands of health workers to help trace new infections. The North’s anti-virus headquarters said on Tuesday that another […]
