Scores, many sick, wait for their names to be called out as Rafah crossing point is opened for four days for humanitarian cases   Egypt opened its border with Gaza on Wednesday, providing rare passage for thousands stuck in the coastal enclave who have lived under blockade for more than ...

  WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to meet with North Korean officials, including leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, while in South Korea for the Winter Olympics this month but the North Koreans canceled at the last minute, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. “North Korea dangled ...

The former president is capitalising on a cynicism that has its roots in the country’s sense of postwar shame Many foreign observers are baffled by the return of Silvio Berlusconi to the forefront of Italy’s politics. At the age of 81, and ineligible as a candidate as a result of a court ...

This is a question the press must keep asking over and over again – until they receive an answer   The political world has known the power of repetition since Cato the Elder reputedly ended every speech in the Roman Senate with the words: “Delenda est Carthago” or “Carthage must ...

Threats include possibilities that are hard even to imagine, like the ability to generate entirely believable, but completely fake, videos   The world is under threat from artificial intelligence and needs to do more to keep people safe, experts have urged. A new report compiled by 26 of the world’s ...

  Aseman Airlines plane crashed en route from Tehran to Yasuj in severe weather conditions, according to state media reports   All passengers and crew onboard an Iranian commercial flight died after the plane crashed amid severe weather conditions in a mountainous region in the south of the country, state ...

“South Africa’s Zuma is out” was the Washington Post’s headline on Thursday morning. “Will things actually get better?” The question signifies more than journalistic skepticism. It points to a shift in the liberal worldview. Over more than a quarter of a century, that view – triumphant as, in 1991, both ...

  LONDON (Reuters) – Britain blamed Russia on Thursday for a cyber-attack last year, publicly pointing the finger at Moscow for spreading a virus which disrupted companies across Europe including UK-based Reckitt Benckiser. The so-called NotPetya attack in June started in Ukraine where it crippled government and business computers before ...

INDIA has declared that Pakistan “will pay” for an attack on an army base in the Jammu region that killed at least six people, the country’s defence minister starkly warned.   Nirmala Sitharaman declared that Pakistan was “expanding the arc of terror” following the devastating attack and vowed to avenge ...

North Korea says it is unable to pay its share of the 2018 United Nations budget because of international sanctions. The UN and US had imposed strict sanctions for Pyongyang’s continued development of its nuclear weapons programme. North Korea’s UN Ambassador Ja Song Nam asked the UN to set up ...