Category: World

Women were beginning to hit the streets en masse across the world on Wednesday to defend rights that are coming under increasing attack.

A national showcase for established big hitters and rising stars alike, the four-day Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) starting Wednesday bills itself as the "largest and most influential gathering of conservatives in the world."

A fire services spokesman confirmed that multiple carriages skipped the tracks just before midnight after the trains, one for freight and the other carrying 350 passengers, collided about halfway along the route between Athens and Thessaloniki.

Mariupol's strategic location on the Sea of Azov made it a prime target in what Moscow calls the "special military operation" that it launched in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

The Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey (AFAD) reported the deaths and at least 300 hospitalisations. While in Syria, the White Helmets Aid Group said at least 150 people were injured in the Aleppo region.

Putin on Tuesday accused The West of escalating the conflict and announced The Kremlin would suspend participation in the New Start Nuclear Arms Treaty with Washington.

Payton Gendron, 19, had pleaded guilty to a state charge of domestic terrorism motivated by hate over the massacre in Buffalo in May, which carries a mandatory penalty of life without parole.

An ambulance screams toward a triage hub for wounded Ukrainian soldiers outside Bakhmut, the stage for the longest battle of Russia's invasion, where there is no end in sight to a brutal stalemate.

Saif al-Adel, an Iran-based Egyptian with a $10 million US bounty on his head, has become the head of Al-Qaeda following the July 2022 death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the US State Department said Wednesday.

Heartrending scenes of a new-born plucked alive from the rubble and a broken father clutching his dead daughter's hand have laid bare the human cost of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey that by Wednesday had claimed over 9,500 lives.