U.S. Treasury chief Scott Bessent said the United States will impose “the toughest sanctions in history” on Iran, a move he suggested would lessen the need for new major military
Australian police recovered the body of an 18-year-old hiker overnight from dense bushland in a remote national park near Sydney, authorities said on Friday, more than a week after she
Seven commodity ships sailed along the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, just half the previous day’s tally, showed data from shiptracker Kpler, amid concern over risk to Middle East shipping
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been moved back to prison after spending a few hours overnight at a hospital, a spokesman for his party said on Friday.Khan, 73,
U.S. President Donald Trump says he wants to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year. But his overtures have drawn a frosty response from Pyongyang, suggesting it
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday and Thursday held respective interactive dialogues with two candidates for the next UN secretary-general.In Wednesday’s dialogue, Ugandan diplomat Olara Otunnu, who was nominated
Climate change could almost triple the area burned by wildfires across Europe by the end of the century under a high-emissions scenario, as hotter, drier and windier conditions increase fire
Serbia has turned to Russia for help in fighting wildfires because of a lack of available planes from the European Union, its interior ministry said.A Russian Emergencies Ministry IL-76P firefighting
An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 hit central Peru on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said, although authorities reported no immediate casualties or damage.The quake struck at a depth of
The Panama Canal Authority will cap daily transits as of early September as it gears up for a longer-than-usual El Niño season expected to reduce waterlevels, it said on Thursday,