Category: 3. Middle East

The Los Angeles Lakers guard continues his hot start to the NBA season with a 12ft game-winner against Minnesota Timberwolves.

Austin Reaves has made a driving jump…

The centre-left D66 has almost tripled its seats in parliament, while the far-right Freedom Party suffered a sharp decrease in its representation from its record win in 2023.

United States President Donald Trump says he has ordered the Department of Defense to “immediately” resume nuclear weapons testing on an “equal basis” with other nuclear-armed powers.

The US leader also said on Thursday that he gave ally…

Mediators insist truce is strong after Israel kills over 100 people, mostly children, before ‘returning’ to ceasefire.

Here are the key events from day 1,344 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Thursday, October 30, 2025:

Fighting

• At least one person has been…

Toronto Blue Jays’ Trey Yesavage sets World Series rookie record for strikeouts against LA Dodgers to forge 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven finals.

The Toronto Blue Jays moved within one win of their first Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series…

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Trump has been showered with praise and gestures of veneration throughout his five-day tour of Asia.

With Donald Trump, flattery will get you…

The White House claimed, without providing evidence, the vessel was operated by a ‘designated terrorist organisation’.

The White House has said United States forces…

Kennedy, a top health official, urges ‘cautious approach’ after Trump baselessly claimed taking Tylenol is linked autism in children.

United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has partially walked back his warning…

Israel’s military has carried out another deadly attack in northern Gaza despite claiming to resume the fragile ceasefire, which was already teetering from a wave of deadly bombardment it waged the night before.

Israel’s latest aerial attack…