Category: 2. World

A Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy group says Israeli prison authorities are systematically torturing detainees by electric shocks and various other means, indicating an alarming trend of both physical and…

A Lebanese lawmaker from Hezbollah’s political wing has strongly dismissed demands for the resistance movement to lay down its arms following American pressure on the government to disarm the group.

Leader of the…

The World’s Ugliest Dog contest returned to central California on Friday, drawing hundreds of people who wanted to meet some less than attractive canine companions.

Held at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa, the annual event highlights pet…

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, will meet in Alaska on August 15 to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine, which, according to Trump, would involve a land swap.

Trump announced in a…

Mexico has said US military would not be entering its territory following reports that President Donald Trump had directed the Pentagon to target Latin American drug cartels.

“The United States is not going to come to Mexico with the military,”…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has underlined he will make no territorial concessions to Russia ahead of a scheduled meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on the future of the war in Ukraine.

The US-Russia meeting is due to take…

Jim Lovell, one of the astronauts who helped guided the Apollo 13 mission safely back to Earth in 1970, has died aged 97.

The attempt to land on the Moon was aborted because of an explosion onboard the spacecraft while it was hundreds of thousands…