The UN human rights office warned Friday that Israeli forces are treating Gaza's yellow line as a kill zone, expanding toward 70 percent of the Strip and attacking the displacement camps where Palestinians are sheltering — raising fears of ethnic cleansing.
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The UN human rights office warned on Friday that Israeli forces are pushing Palestinians into ever-smaller areas of Gaza, destroying civilian infrastructure and attacking the displacement sites where families shelter…
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Dublin has never before formally studied what a united Ireland would look like. Taoiseach Micheál Martin says Ireland will set up its first government research body on a unity referendum — evidence first, he insists, not advocacy.
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Dublin has never before formally studied what a united Ireland would look like. Taoiseach Micheál Martin says that is about to change — and insists the work must be evidence, not advocacy.
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A historian of communist-era crime ran Poland's memory institute. Then he won the presidency, vetoed the government's programme, refused to swear in its judges — and on Friday turned his plane around. Who is Karol Nawrocki?
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Eighteen months ago Karol Nawrocki was a historian running Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, known to specialists and to readers of books about communist-era crime gangs. On Friday night he was the…
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The Nasdaq rose 0.83 percent and the S&P 500 snapped a three-day losing streak on Election Day as chip stocks rallied — while Apple dragged the Dow lower and the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 4.97 percent.
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Election Day split Wall Street down the middle. Chip stocks dragged the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 out of a three-day slide, Apple and Palantir dragged the Dow the other way, and the bond market quietly delivered the…
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Economy / Markets — The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.86 percent to 25,437.00 in its worst day since June as Intel plunged 28.6 percent — its worst day since 1974 — and chip stocks cratered as investors revolted against the cost of the AI buildout.
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October ended with a reckoning. The Nasdaq fell 2.86 percent in its worst session since June, Intel lost more than a quarter of its value in its worst day since 1974, and chip stocks cratered — not because the…
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Vladimir Putin urged a ceasefire and a political settlement in Sudan at the Kremlin on Friday, while Abdel Fattah al-Burhan offered Russia a free economic zone on the Red Sea for fuel and wheat storage, a railway from Port Sudan toward Chad, and investment in Sudanese gold and copper. No ceasefire was agreed — and the RSF was not there.
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Vladimir Putin urged a ceasefire and a political settlement in Sudan at the Kremlin on Friday, while Abdel Fattah al-Burhan offered Russia a free economic zone on the Red Sea for fuel and wheat storage, a railway…
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The Vatican confirmed on Friday that Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born first American pope, has submitted his mail-in ballot in Chicago for the November 3 midterm elections — the first time a pope has ever voted in a US election, and the latest act in a voting habit his own record shows he has practised for decades on two continents.
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The Vatican confirmed on Friday that Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born first American pope, has submitted his mail-in ballot in Chicago for the November 3 midterm elections — the first time a pope has ever voted in a US…
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Pakistan's military said Friday it is "cautiously optimistic" about its mediation between Iran and the United States, pointing to two Tehran trips this month by army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir — and it left open the possibility that Iran could one day join the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defence pact signed in Mecca in August.
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Pakistan's military said on Friday that it is "cautiously optimistic" about its mediation between Iran and the United States, pointing to two trips to Tehran this month by army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir as…
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President Donald Trump said Friday that the war with Iran is "going to get wrapped up soon" and that any end to the fighting must guarantee Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon — saying it four days before the midterm elections, on the same day Qatari mediators arrived back in Tehran carrying revised proposals, and one day after his top Middle East commander briefed him in person on military options.
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President Donald Trump said Friday that the war with Iran is "going to get wrapped up soon" and that any end to the fighting must guarantee Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon — saying it four days before the midterm…
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Federal prosecutors unveiled the first Operation Ghostbusters charges on Thursday — five defendants in three states, more than $750,000 in seized cryptocurrency, and 830,840 student-aid accounts flagged after investigators traced refunds for students who never existed to a network linked to Kenya.
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The students never existed, but the money was real. Federal prosecutors say stolen American identities were used to enroll “ghost students” who never attended a class, and the refunds flowed through U.S. money mules…
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Two wars closed sea lanes, knocked out rival refineries and sent Brent swinging between $68 and $132 — and on Friday the bill and the windfall landed in the same place: ExxonMobil earned more from refining than from producing oil for the first time in at least six years, and Chevron’s fuel business had its best quarter in just as long.
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Two wars closed sea lanes, knocked out rival refineries and sent Brent swinging between $68 and $132 — and on Friday the bill and the windfall landed in the same place: ExxonMobil earned more from refining than from…
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Nigerian troops backed by air support repelled overnight ISWAP attacks on positions at Bitta in Borno and at the North East Theatre Training School in Buni Yadi, Yobe, the military said on Friday. In the roughly five-hour counter-offensive at Buni Yadi, the military says, 48 fighters were killed. One soldier was killed and two were lightly wounded. The toll is the military's own figure: ISWAP has not commented, and it has not been independently verified.
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Nigerian troops backed by air support repelled overnight ISWAP attacks on positions at Bitta in Borno and at the North East Theatre Training School in Buni Yadi, Yobe, the military said on Friday. In the roughly…
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Rescuers buried 13 people at the camp and two more died in hospital after four to five successive strikes hit Jari 2, a fenced camp of more than 1,700 displaced people near Hayk, at about 11 a.m. on Thursday. Who sent the drones is unknown: no party has claimed the attack and Addis Ababa has not commented.
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Rescuers buried 13 people at the camp and two more died in hospital after four to five successive strikes hit Jari 2, a fenced camp of more than 1,700 displaced people near Hayk, at about 11 a.m. on Thursday. Who…
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Oman's navy took every crew member off the Panama-flagged commercial vessel RITI on Friday after it was targeted and caught fire off the Musandam coast, officials in Muscat said — the second Hormuz ship emergency in a single news cycle, and the first in days in which a crew could not stay aboard its own ship.
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Oman's navy took every crew member off the Panama-flagged commercial vessel RITI on Friday after it was targeted and caught fire off the Musandam coast, officials in Muscat said — the second Hormuz ship emergency in…
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For the first time since Russia seized Oleshky in 2022, an aid convoy reached the front-line town on Friday and residents began boarding buses out — some toward Ukraine, some toward Russia. How many left is still unknown: Kyiv’s prime minister withdrew the one number he had given parliament hours earlier.
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War / World — For the first time since Russia seized Oleshky in 2022, an aid convoy reached the front-line town on Friday and residents began boarding buses out — some toward Ukraine, some toward Russia. How many…
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