Category: 2. World

On Wednesday, over tea and cakes with veterans of the Ukraine war, President Vladimir Putin announced Russia had tested a new weapon.

“There is nothing like this,” the Russian leader said of the Poseidon – a nuclear-powered, nuclear-capable…

Troops used live rounds, tear gas and sound grenades, the Wafa news agency reported.

In Nablus governorate, Israeli forces arrested two men, Moamen al-Tawil in Nablus city, and Salim Ahmed Dawood Abu Sanoubar in the village of Qiblan. Troops…

At least 19 people have died in Jamaica as a result of Hurricane Melissa, Information Minister Dana Morris Dixon has said, as search and rescue efforts continue and authorities try to get aid to hard-hit areas.

The hurricane, one of the most…

A 15-year-old boy was killed Thursday afternoon after falling from a height of about 100 meters at a construction site at the entrance to al-Quds during an Orthodox Jewish demonstration against drafting yeshiva students into the army.

Magen…

A South African court has ruled that Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli’s 1967 death was the result of an “assault” by apartheid police, overturning decades of claims that it was an accident.

An inquest held under the apartheid government concluded…

During a meeting with Hossein Simaee-Sarraf, Science, Research, and Technology Minister, on the sidelines of the 43rd General Conference of UNESCO in Samarkand, Pellegrini called his successful official visit to Iran in 2016 a positive…

US space agency Nasa has rejected reality star Kim Kardashian’s claim that the 1969 space mission to land the first man on the Moon was faked.

“Yes, we’ve been to the Moon before… 6 times!” Nasa acting administrator Sean Duffy wrote on social…

 President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia had successfully tested a Poseidon nuclear-powered super torpedo that military analysts say is capable of devastating coastal regions by triggering vast radioactive ocean swells, Reuters…

American singer Billie Eilish called on billionaires to “give your money away”, at the Wall Street Journal’s Innovator Awards in New York on Wednesday.

“If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?” the singer asked during her acceptance…

The Sagrada Família has become the tallest church in the world, after workers placed the first part of a cross at the top of its central tower.

Now measuring 162.91 metres tall, the Spanish basilica has officially pipped the record from the Ulm…