Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday that Europe “cannot be trusted”, a week after the EU launched a trade mechanism to bypass US sanctions on Tehran. “These days there’s talk of the Europeans and their proposals. My advice is that they shouldn’t…

The Red Cross called yesterday for a total ban on nuclear weapons, warning of the growing risk that such arms could again be used with devastating effect. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched a global…

They survived the Islamic State group’s crumbling “caliphate” by a thread, but skeletal babies streaming into this displacement camp…

An Australian court yesterday delivered a landmark ruling by rejecting plans to build a coal mine on the grounds it would worsen climate change. Chief Justice Brian Preston said a planned open cut coal mine in a scenic part of New South Wales state would be in “the wrong place at the wrong time.”…

Fifteen people were killed in China on the night of the Lunar New Year in two family tragedies, after one man started a fire and another went on a knife rampage. As people celebrated to welcome in the Year of the Pig Monday night, a man surnamed Lu set fire to the home of his brother in the northern…

At least two people died and 14 police officers were injured Thursday, police said, as thousands of Haitians protested against rampant inflation and demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moise on the two-year anniversary of his inauguration. “For two years, Jovenel has promised to fill…

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Thursday accused the publisher of the National Enquirer of “blackmail” after it threatened to publish intimate photographs sent by the billionaire to his mistress if he did not cease his investigation into how the newspaper got the pictures. It comes after the tabloid,…