Israel on Friday unleashed a spate of airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, an area seen as a hotbed of Lebanon’s Iran-allied Hezbollah movement. In the evening, the Israeli military carried out four airstrikes on … Read more
Kevin Warsh Jin Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump is considering naming Kevin Warsh as Treasury secretary then ultimately sending him off to serve as Federal Reserve chair, according to a … Read more
Yaroslava Ivantsova and her husband, Ukrainian soldier Mykola Ivantsov, embrace at a hospital in Kyiv after he returned from being held by Russian forces as a prisoner of war. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption toggle … Read more
Getty Images The war reached its 1000th day this week The stakes have never been higher in the Ukraine-Russia war. In the week that saw the conflict pass its 1000th day, Western powers substantially … Read more
MELBOURNE — Australia’s communications minister introduced a world-first law into Parliament on Thursday that would ban children under 16 from social media, saying online safety was one of parents’ toughest challenges. Michelle Rowland said … Read more
While SpaceX founder Elon Musk may be dead set on one day living on another planet, the firm’s chief operating officer says she plans to keep things terrestrial, for now. “I think Elon wants … Read more
Social Media/Handout Holly Bowles, left, was confirmed to have died on Friday, a day after British lawyer Simone White and Australian Bianca Jones For Australian friends Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, it was their … Read more
Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesperson for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), says the organization has increased enrichment capacity following the adoption of the anti-Tehran resolution by the IAEA. Outlining Iran’s response to the … Read more
Donald Trump has nominated Scott Bessent to lead the US Treasury Department, a post with wide oversight of tax policy, public debt, international finance and sanctions. The selection ends what has proven to be … Read more
Public schools in Texas now have the option to use a new, state-written curriculum infused with Bible stories after the state’s school board voted in favour of the material on Friday. A slim … Read more