Amel Marhoum works for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Before the war transformed Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, into a battlefield she lived there with her family. Starting on April 15, 2023, during the last days of Ramadan, heavy gunfire...
A Japanese district court in Osaka on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by death row inmates seeking an end to the country’s practice of giving just a couple hours notice before execution as well as compensation for their mental suffering...
Good intentions can sometimes be misguided. Thailand’s freshwater ecosystems this time of year are a testament to that.Ahead of the Buddhist holiday of Songkran, also known as the Thai New Year, which began on Saturday and ends on...
Singapore will soon get its fourth Prime Minister—and only the second outside of its founding family that has led the country for a combined more than 50 years since the city-state gained its independence in the 1960s. Prime...
Australian police are examining why a lone assailant who stabbed six people to death in a busy Sydney shopping mall and injured more than a dozen others targeted women while avoiding men, a police commissioner said on Monday.Police...
After an Israel airstrike killed World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza, drawing worldwide condemnation, international humanitarian agencies say they continue to face violence and practical obstacles trying to deliver aid throughout...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden convened the Group of Seven advanced democracies on Sunday to coordinate a rebuke to Iran for its unprecedented and largely unsuccessful aerial attack on Israel and to prevent a wider regional escalation.The...
WASHINGTON— President Joe Biden lauded American forces who helped Israel down “nearly all” of the drones and missiles fired by Iran and vowed to coordinate a global response to Tehran's unprecedented attack. The Pentagon said...
A U.S. military contractor is about to head to trial over allegations that it participated in a conspiracy to torture detainees at Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq War—20 years after infamous images of the abuse were seen around...
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden cut short a weekend stay at his Delaware beach house and was returning to the White House on Saturday to meet with his national security team and monitor the situation in the Middle East as Iran...
(JERUSALEM) — Iran launched drones toward Israel late Saturday, the Israeli military announced, and Iran's state-run media reported that dozens had been fired.The Israeli army’s spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said it would...
(Al-MUGHAYYIR, West Bank) — The Israeli-occupied West Bank saw some of its worst violence Saturday since the war in nearby Gaza began, as Israel's army said the body of a missing Israeli teen was found after he was killed in a “terrorist...
(ISTANBUL) — The last of 174 people stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in southern Turkey were brought to safety Saturday, nearly 23 hours after one pod hit a pole and burst open, killing one person and injuring seven when...
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — CoMMAndos from Iran's paraMilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled down from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday, the latest...
(SYDNEY) — A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including...
President Joe Biden told reporters on Wednesday that he was considering a request made by the government of Australia to drop the extradition case against Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who is currently imprisoned in the...
The world’s biggest election will take place next week when 960 million eligible voters from a population of 1.4 billion Indians cast their ballot to decide who will fill the 543 seats of the Lok Sabha, the more powerful lower house...
The German Parliament approved a law on Friday that will make it much easier for people to change their legal gender identities and first names. The new law, which goes into effect on Nov. 1, allows trans people to change their legal...
Google provides cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and the tech giant has negotiated deepening its partnership during Israel’s war in Gaza, a company document viewed by TIME shows.The Israeli Ministry of...
The U.S. Embassy in Israel has issued a new security alert that restricts its government employees and their family members from personal Travel outside three cities amid heightened tensions in the region. The alert restricted...
It’s Southeast Asia’s biggest ever fraud, amounting to $12.5 billion and embroiling some of Vietnam’s top bankers and officials. And on Thursday, a Ho Chi Minh City court reached its verdict: a death sentence for Truong My Lan,...