Two years of talks towards striking a landmark global agreement on pandemic prevention were headed for overtime Thursday, with a breakthrough still elusive.
It's Day 174 of the war in Gaza – a U.S. State Department foreign affairs officer has publicly resigned, saying she made the decision amid rising opposition from within the federal government over the White House's Israel policy.
The SEC's approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs in January was widely welcomed by the crypto community and in Asia, interest by some of the region's rising economies may trigger more openness to an emerging, yet significantly popular financial sector.
President Ferdinand Marcos said Thursday the Philippines will not be "cowed into silence" by Beijing after confrontations in the South China Sea that injured Filipino troops and damaged vessels.
Battles and bombardment pounded the Gaza Strip on Thursday, after Washington said Israel agreed to reschedule cancelled talks with tensions worsening between the allies.
In the English countryside, volunteers put the finishing touches to 1,475 metal silhouettes representing British military personnel who died on D-Day, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the landings.
Official campaigning for South Korea's upcoming general election kicked off Thursday, with President Yoon Suk Yeol's ruling party fighting to win back a parliamentary majority and thwart opposition attempts to derail his conservative agenda.
Wedding photos or a diplomatic visit? "They are going to marry in the Amazon and have their honeymoon in Paris," joked one user on X, while others said pictures from the trip could make up a wedding album.
The Swedish city of Malmo is preparing to host the Eurovision Song Contest in early May under high security, amid protests over Israel's participation during its ongoing war with Hamas.
Greece's conservative government faces a censure motion in parliament on Thursday over claims it had sought to manipulate an ongoing investigation into the nation's worst train tragedy.
The United States has taken a public distance from Israel as never before over the Gaza war but the decisive test will be Rafah and whether Israel heeds US warnings against an offensive in the packed city.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Wednesday defended French secularism following the resignation of a Paris school principal who received death threats after asking a student to remove her Muslim veil on the premises.
Forced to discard its most popular election candidate, and then a proxy, Venezuela's opposition unity is now on the verge of crumbling ahead of July presidential elections.
The governing council that aims to oversee a political transition in Haiti vowed Wednesday to restore "public and democratic order," in its first statement to the Caribbean nation wracked by a worsening security crisis.
Anti-establishment figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye has comfortably won the Senegalese presidential election with 54.28 percent of votes in the first round, official provisional results showed Wednesday.
Gaza Now's Arabic channel boasts a substantial following of over 300,000 on X, along with a significant presence on the encrypted chat platform Telegram.
Russian attacks on eastern and southern Ukraine killed at least three people on Wednesday, officials said, as Kyiv called for more Patriot air defence systems to battle a surge in missile strikes.
Myanmar's junta chief on Wednesday blamed the country's growing armed resistance movement for preventing long-promised elections in a speech to thousands of soldiers following an Armed Forces Day parade.
A UK government minister is on a collision course with the law over his refusal to reveal the sources of allegations that British special forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan.
A surge in cheap exports from China in industries like electric vehicles could bring "global spillovers," US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is due to warn in a speech on Wednesday.
The war in Gaza has entered Day 173 – eyes are on the greater Middle East amid heated fire exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel, and protests in Jordan have taken a violent turn. In the U.S., views have changed regarding Israel's military campaign in Gaza, a new Gallup poll revealed.
Israeli forces pounded besieged Gaza on Wednesday in the war sparked by the October 7 attack and fought Hamas around several hospitals despite a UN Security Council demand for a ceasefire.
Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian militant group Hamas, has exchanged near-daily cross-border fire with the Israeli army since Hamas gunmen launched an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on October 7 triggering war in Gaza.
All six were members of a construction crew repairing potholes on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US East Coast city when the structure was sent careening into the Patapsco River at around 1:30 am (0530 GMT).
A rare retrospective of artist Constantin Brancusi, who revolutionized sculpture in the early 20th century but whose works can be extremely tricky to transport, opens in Paris on Wednesday.
Dozens of Rohingya refugees saved after their boat capsized off Indonesia's westernmost coast last week have been forced from their temporary shelter due to local protests, a United Nations refugee agency official said Wednesday.
El Salvador isn't allowing a week-long Bitcoin slump to discourage its Bitcoin treasury goals as it did, as proven by on-chain data, purchase one BTC daily in the past 11 days.
The southern Gaza Strip came under intense Israeli bombardment overnight, despite international pressure for an immediate ceasefire in the Palestinian territory where famine is looming.
Markets were mixed in Asia on Wednesday following a negative day on Wall Street as observers warn the latest equities rally may have run out of steam, with investors looking for fresh catalysts to kickstart buying.
Australia's grassland earless dragon is no bigger than a pinkie when it emerges from its shell, but the little lizard faces an enormous challenge in the years ahead: avoiding extinction.
