Police officers man a checkpoint checking for weapons, in the Petionville area of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday. Odelyn Joseph/AP hide caption toggle caption Odelyn Joseph/AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Gangs launched a new attack on Haiti’s … Read more
Family handout Hanan Abu Salameh, 59, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier while she harvested olives On a Thursday afternoon towards the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out … Read more
HONG KONG — Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists were sentenced to four to 10 years in prison Tuesday in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement. … Read more
Getty Images Logan Paul, the massively popular social media personality, is facing fresh questions over his cryptocurrency dealings amid ongoing concerns he may have profited from misleading fans. The BBC has seen new evidence … Read more
The landing was deemed a success – but two astronauts remain stuck in space (Picture: AFP) Boeing’s first astronaut mission ended on Friday night with an empty capsule landing and two test pilots still … Read more
Vladimir Putin has approved changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, setting out new conditions under which the country would consider using its arsenal. The doctrine now says an attack from a non-nuclear state, if backed … Read more
Lebanon’s Health Ministry announced that 17 people were injured in the strike after reporting earlier that Israeli attacks across the country over the previous 24 hours had killed 28 people and wounded 107 – bringing … Read more
Getty Images The nine-day hīkoi, or peaceful protest, had made its way through the country More than 40,000 people have protested outside New Zealand’s parliament against a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country’s … Read more
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department, tasked with overseeing an agency Trump has promised to dismantle. McMahon … Read more
Police in Brazil have arrested five people suspected of planning to kill Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva shortly before he was sworn in as president. Four of those detained on Tuesday are soldiers and … Read more