Category: 2. World

Gaza’s Government Media Office said at least 549 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces while trying to access humanitarian supplies in the past four weeks, Al Jazeera reported.

It noted that a further 4,066 Palestinians have been injured at…

CCTV has captured the moment a South Korean man doused a metro carriage with flammable liquid before setting it on fire. The Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office has released footage of the arson attack which occurred on 31 May.

Six people…

The Grammy Award-winning composer of the Mission: Impossible theme, Lalo Schifrin, has died aged 93, his family announced.

The Argentine musician’s son, Ryan Schifrin, confirmed his father died of complications from pneumonia on Thursday, in a…

India has refused to sign a joint statement at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in China as it did not reflect the country’s concerns on terrorism, India’s foreign ministry has said.

Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on Thursday…

The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has congratulated Iran on its glorious victory over the Israeli regime and its backers in the recent war of aggression against the Islamic Republic, stressing that Iranian missiles were “an…

Japan has executed a man who murdered nine people in 2017, the first time since 2022 that the country has enacted capital punishment.

The serial killings by Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the “Twitter killer”, had shocked the country and triggered…

Celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are arriving in Venice to attend the extravagant wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.

Usher, Kylie Jenner and Ivanka Trump were among those seen boarding water…

Canada’s parliament has passed a landmark bill giving Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government new powers to fast-track major national projects.

The One Canadian Economy Act was passed by the Senate on Thursday, and allows the cabinet to streamline…

The BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet reports from the ruins of an Iranian state TV building in Tehran.

It was hit by an Israeli missile strike during the recent conflict – forcing a newsreader to flee while live on air.

Lyse…