Hundreds of people are feared dead in Mayotte after the French Indian Ocean territory was devastated by a powerful cyclone. Entire settlements were flattened when Cyclone Chido brought wind speeds of more than 225km/h (140mph), with the poorest living in makeshift shelters particularly

Israel's government has approved a plan to encourage the expansion of settlements in the occupied Golan Heights. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the move was necessary because a "new front" had opened up on Israel's border with Syria after the fall of the Assad

Historic hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague have drawn to a close after more than 100 countries and international organisations presented arguments over two weeks on who should bear legal responsibility for the worsening climate crisis. Spearheading the

Top diplomats from eight Arab League countries have agreed at a meeting in Jordan to “support a peaceful transition process” in Syria following President Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow. Foreign ministers from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, the UAE, Bahrain

The US has made "direct contact" with the HTS rebels who now control Syria after toppling the Assad regime, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. It is the first acknowledgement of direct American contact with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which the US currently still

ABC News has agreed to pay $15m (£12m) to US President-elect Donald Trump to settle a defamation lawsuit after its star anchor falsely said he had been found "liable for rape". George Stephanopoulos made the statements repeatedly during an interview on 10 March this

A fire at a private elderly care center in Amman on Friday claimed the lives of six residents and injured 60 others, according to Jordan's official news agency Petra.  The fire broke out on the first floor of the White Family Association’s Elderly Care Center, which

An Israeli strike on a post office sheltering Gaza residents killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded 50, medics said on Friday. Families displaced by the 14-month-old conflict had sought refuge in the postal facility in the Nuseirat camp, and the strike late on Thursday brought the

Turkiye can step in to resolve disputes between Sudan and the United Arab Emirates, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told the head of the Sudan Sovereign Council, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. The Sudanese army, led by al-Burhan, accuses the UAE of providing weapons to its rival,

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has been impeached by the National Assembly over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, a move that plunged South Korea into political turmoil halfway through his presidency. The unicameral National Assembly voted 204 to 85 on Saturday to

A fire at a private hospital in southern India has killed at least six people, police said, with more than two dozen others injured in the blaze. Police superintendent A. Pradeep said on Friday that around 30 people had been injured but all were "stable". Building fires

Gaza’s civil defense agency said a series of Israeli air strikes on Thursday killed at least 58 people, including 12 guards securing aid trucks, while the military said it targeted militants planning to hijack the vehicles. The latest bloodshed came despite growing optimism that

Chinese leader Xi Jinping would likely see President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to attend his inauguration as too risky to accept, and the gesture from Trump may have little bearing on the increasingly competitive ties between the two nations as the White House changes hands,

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles charged a former Syrian government official who headed the Damascus Central Prison from 2005 to 2008 with torture, the US Justice Department said on Thursday. Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 72, headed the Adra prison, as it is colloquially known, during that

Israeli forces conducted a first withdrawal from a town in south Lebanon and were replaced by the Lebanese military under a ceasefire deal, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Wednesday. The command's leader General Erik Kurilla "was present at the implementation and

Taliban refugee minister Khalil Haqqani has been killed in a suicide bombing inside his ministry in Kabul, the movement's most high profile casualty since it returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. Six others died in the blast as Haqqani was leaving his office, interior ministry

The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to demand an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and expressed support for the work of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). The assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution demanding an immediate,

Afghan acting Refugees and Repatriation Minister Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani was killed in an explosion inside his ministry building in central Kabul on Wednesday, an interim administration official confirmed to Anadolu. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban administration’s chief

The West has no reason to fear Syria following the ousting of Bashar Assad’s regime, Abu Mohammed Al-Golani, leader of the group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), told Sky News on Wednesday. In his first interview with a Western outlet since Assad fled, Al-Golani insisted that Syria is

A portion of an around 180-year-old mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur was demolished on Tuesday as it was allegedly encroaching upon the Banda-Fatehpur Road in the city. While the district administration said that a notice had been served to the Noori Jama Masjid to remove the