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US president says Gaza ceasefire ‘working out very well’ despite deadly Israeli attacks and severe aid restrictions. Video Duration 01 minutes 55 seconds 01:55 Sick children from Gaza arrive in Italy for medical treatment President Donald Trump says he expects a US-coordinated international stabilisation force to be on the ground in Gaza “very soon”, adding

Nouadhibou, Mauritania – When Omar*, a 29-year-old bricklayer from rural Gambia, crossed the border into Mauritania in March, he came in search of the better pay he’d heard he could find. He settled in Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s second-largest city, where he shared a one-room shack with four friends, and found work as a casual labourer on

Vietnamese state media report extensive damage in central provinces and power outages for 1.2 million people. Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least five people in Vietnam after slamming into its central and highland provinces, according to Vietnamese state media. Kalmaegi made landfall in central Vietnam on Thursday evening, bringing heavy wind and rain that damaged

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said attacks to continue until ‘narco-terrorists’ stop ‘poisoning’ American people. The United States military has carried out another lethal strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has said. Three men were killed in the attack, Hegseth wrote in a post on X late on

Colombian fighters Alexander Ante, 48, and Jose Aron Medina Aranda, 37 were each sentenced to 13 years in prison for serving with Ukrainian forces. A court run by Moscow-installed authorities in Ukraine’s occupied Donetsk region has sentenced two Colombian nationals to 13 years in prison each for fighting on behalf of Kyiv. The ruling, announced

The Federal Aviation Administration is cutting air traffic by 10 percent due to a shortage of air traffic controllers. Hundreds of flights across the US have been cancelled following an order from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to temporarily cut air traffic by 10 percent at the country’s 40 largest airports to maintain safety amid

United States lawmakers have written to Andrew, Britain’s disgraced former prince, requesting that he sit for a formal interview about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a day after King Charles III formally stripped his younger brother of his royal titles. Separately, a secluded desert ranch where Epstein once entertained guests is coming

Polls find large majorities of people in the US oppose military action against Venezuela, where Trump has ramped up military pressure. Republicans in the United States Senate have voted down legislation that would have required US President Donald Trump to obtain congressional approval for any military attacks on Venezuela. Two Republicans had crossed the political

Abby Zwerner, 28, was shot in 2023 as she sat in a first-grade classroom and sustained life-threatening injuries. A jury in the state of Virginia in the United States has awarded $10m to a former teacher who was shot by a six-year-old student. The jury on Thursday sided with former teacher Abby Zwerner’s claim, made

The Take New York’s new Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won amid Islamophobic attacks, and is set to become the city’s first Muslim mayor. He pledged to serve all communities and to challenge United States President Trump’s policies. His win is being compared to that of London’s Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan, a counterweight to then-United Kingdom Prime