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
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
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
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
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
Nearly three years into Russia’s full-scale invasion into Ukraine, the Biden administration gave Ukraine the green light to strike deeper into Russia using US-supplied longer-range missiles. The Ukrainian military quickly put that permission to … Read more
The Met Office has put in place a yellow warning for ice for much of southern England, the Midlands and eastern Wales, which won’t expire until 10am today – a while after rush hour
BRITISH troops were warned “If you sweat, you die” as NATO soldiers braved extreme cold in Finnish fighting simulations. Artillery squaddies revealed how they coped living in outdoor tents in -8c conditions during the … Read more
New Delhi: On the morning of November 11, police in East London’s Ilford found a body inside the boot of a silver Vauxhall Corsa parked on Brisbane Road. The body was of 24-year-old Harshita … Read more
Under sunshine and clear blue skies against a picture-perfect backdrop of Rio’s iconic Sugarloaf Mountain, the Group of 20 leaders gathered for their “family photo”. There was just one snag: US President Joe Biden … Read more