2+ hour, 59+ min ago   (267+ words) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has imposed sanctions on a former press secretary, accusing her and nine ‌others of spreading Russian propaganda and of supporting Russia's aggressive policy toward Ukraine. Yuliia Mendel - ‌who worked with Zelenskiy from 2019 to 2021, before Russia's invasion…...

2+ hour, 46+ min ago   (285+ words) US President Donald Trump has announced at the close of a golf tournament in Ireland that he plans to remove a 15 per cent tariff on Irish whiskey. Trump said during the trophy ceremony for the Irish Open that he had…...

7+ hour, 6+ min ago   (446+ words) US President Donald Trump has called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's military to stop ‌targeting Russian diesel infrastructure, saying the attacks are causing a shortage of the fuel that is "hurting the world". A wave of long-distance Ukrainian drone attacks…...

21+ hour, 41+ min ago   (429+ words) Swedes will vote in an election that will either bring a far-right party into government for the first time or shift the country back towards the ‌liberalism it has long been known for. Sweden's centre-left opposition holds a narrow lead…...

15+ hour, 58+ min ago   (564+ words) Maritime trackers have received new reports of an attack on ‌a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, adding to concerns about Iran-related threats to energy supplies after Saudi Arabia shut down a vital oil pipeline. The British navy-affiliated agency UKMTO…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (274+ words) A fire in the Democratic Republic of ‌Congo's rebel-controlled city of Bukavu has killed at least 24 children as it destroyed two schools and burned down about 300 wooden houses, an official from the rebel administration says. The dead included 19 girls and…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (477+ words) An Israeli air strike has killed a man, his ‌wife and their two daughters, aged eight and 12, in a house in the northern Gaza Strip, health officials say, after the Israeli military ‌escalated bombardments over the past two days. The…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (375+ words) The Houthi rebel group has taken over Yemen's port city of Mocha, an area vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea, Houthi and Yemeni officials say. Mocha is about 80km from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a strategic waterway between the…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (411+ words) China and the United States hope to reach an agreement on lowering import taxes soon, a Chinese government spokesperson says, fuelling expectations that an announcement could come when the leaders of the two countries meet in two weeks. Negotiators are…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (312+ words) A traditional Ugandan kingdom has selected a television news anchor to succeed King Oyo ‌Nyimba, who died aged 34 after becoming the world's youngest reigning monarch when ‌he took the throne at age three. Oyo Nyimba died on August 27 in the…...