Another unidentified object has been shot down over North American airspace, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed. He said the latest object "violated Canadian airspace" and was shot down over Yukon in north-west Canada. Both Canadian and US aircraft were

The US has eased sanctions on Syria to speed up delivery of aid to the country’s northwest, which has received almost no humanitarian assistance since Monday’s earthquakes. The US Treasury issued a 180-day exemption for “transactions related to earthquake

The death toll from a catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria climbed to more than 25,000 on Saturday, as rescuers worked in freezing weather to find people alive. Officials and medics said 21,848 people had died in Turkey and 3,553 in Syria from Monday's 7.8-magnitude

Moldova's government has collapsed and its pro-EU prime minister has stepped down after 18 months of political and economic turbulence. Europe's poorest country was struggling with "multiple crises", outgoing PM Natalia Gavrilita said on Friday. With the war raging

Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah has been released from Iran’s notorious Evin prison, the French government said but the conditions of her release remain unclear. Adelkhah has been in prison since Iranian authorities arrested her in 2019 during a visit to the country. She

The United States has blacklisted six Chinese entities it said were linked to Beijing’s aerospace programmes as part of its retaliation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that traversed US airspace. The move is likely to further escalate the diplomatic row between the US and

Turkey's most devastating earthquake since 1939 has raised big questions about whether such a large-scale tragedy could have been avoided and whether President Erdogan's government could have done more to save lives. With elections on the horizon, his future is on the line

The death toll stands at more than 23,700 in Turkey and northwestern Syria as rescue efforts continue. The number of deaths in Turkey rose to more than 20,213 on Friday while more than 3,500 were killed in Syria. United Nations says up to 5.3 million people in Syria may be homeless

A new-born baby and his mother have been rescued from rubble in Turkey, around 90 hours after the first of Monday's deadly earthquakes. The 10-day-old boy, named Yagiz, was retrieved from a ruined structure in the southern Hatay province. Footage showed the child being carefully

Thousands of people have offered to adopt the baby girl who was born under the rubble of a collapsed building in north-west Syria, following Monday's earthquake. When she was rescued, baby Aya - meaning miracle in Arabic - was still connected to her mother by her umbilical cord.

The United States on Thursday announced an initial $85 million package for emergency relief after a devastating earthquake in Turkiye and Syria. The US Agency for International Development that the funding will go to partners on the ground “to deliver urgently needed aid for

The World Bank has announced providing $1.78 billion in assistance to Turkey to help with relief and recovery efforts after devastating earthquakes in Turkey and neighbouring Syria. The death toll following the earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday has risen to 21,051, CNN

Rescue workers made a final push Thursday to find survivors of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria that rendered many communities unrecognizable to their inhabitants and led the Turkish president to declare it "the disaster of the century." The death toll topped 20,000. The

Thousands of people who lost their homes in a devastating earthquake huddled around campfires and clamoured for food and water in the bitter cold three days after the temblor and series of aftershocks struck Turkey and Syria, killing about 17162 people. According to Turkish President

For her 'open door' refugee policy in 2015, the former German chancellor was awarded the Felix Houphouet-Boigny UNESCO Peace Prize in Ivory Coast's capital Yamoussoukro. A bright, monumental building rises 30 meters into the sky of Yamoussoukro, the strangely quiet capital

Forest fires across south-central Chile that have left 24 people dead and swallowed up hundreds of houses spread into new areas on Wednesday after raging overnight, burning up the habitats of vulnerable woodland animals. “We call on everyone who can to take care of the forests

Over 15,000 people have died in total following a catastrophic earthquake in the Turkish-Syria border region. Turkish state news agency Anadolu Agency, citing the country's disaster management bureau, reported early Thursday that 12,391 people have died in Turkey alone from the

The death toll from the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday has risen to more than 11,000. At least 8,574 people have died in Turkey, the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. At least 2,530 have been killed in Syria. Erdogan has travelled

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is believed to have touched down in Britain as he makes a surprise visit to London on Wednesday, at a time when Kyiv is urging the West to send more weapons and military support to counter Russian advances. A UK Royal Air Force C-17 transport

New Zealand authorities have recovered 3.2 tonnes of cocaine, worth more than $300 million, found floating in the Pacific Ocean and believed to be bound for Australia. Police said the haul of 81 bales, which was drifting hundreds of kilometres northwest of New Zealand, was recovered in