VietNam - Vietnam confirmed on Thursday that top leader To Lam will visit China next week at the invitation of counterpart Xi Jinping,...
TEHRAN - Thousands of Iranians paid tribute on Thursday to the late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country for nearly four decades until his killing in US-Israeli...
NIGERIA - The US has urged its citizens to reconsider travelling to Nigeria, citing risks such as terrorism, civil unrest and kidnapping.
UNITED KINGDOM - Three Russian submarines conducted a "covert" operation over cables and pipelines in waters north of the UK,...
IRAN - The war is inside his head now. A slamming door or cutlery being dropped makes him jump.
US - Young American men could be automatically registered for eligibility for the military draft as soon as December, ending decades of self-registration.
BRUSSELS - The European Union on Thursday called on Israel to halt its strikes on Lebanon...
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel would keep hitting Iran-backed Hezbollah "wherever necessary", the day after Israeli strikes pummelled Lebanon.
PARAMARIBO – The nation witnessed a unique moment in the history of politics as all of the nation’s politicians were on the same page...
PARAMARIBO - Guyana’s president Irfaan Ali traveled all the way from neighboring Guyana to Suriname to attend the cremation of former president...
BANGKOK - Thailand's foreign minister confirmed on Wednesday the deaths of three Thai crew members of a cargo ship struck by Iran while transiting the Strait of Hormuz a month ago.
US - Matthew Perry's stepmother has asked a judge to hand the maximum possible prison sentence to the woman who sold the drugs that ultimately killed the Friends star. Jasveen Sangha,...
ENGLAND - The Church of England is planning to issue an apology for its role in historical forced adoption, the BBC has learned. Forced adoptions took place in the three decades after World War Two and...
TEHRAN - Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned on Tuesday that they had "no trust" in promises from the United States despite a two-week ceasefire deal, adding that their "finger was on the trigger".
LEBANON - The Israeli military has carried out a large wave of air strikes across Lebanon, with reports of a high number of casualties across the country, hospitals overwhelmed and people believed to be under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
IRAN - For most of the past six weeks, we have brought you maps of a gummed-up Strait of Hormuz. Approximately 800 ships are believed to have been stuck in the Gulf, many transporting oil and gas,...
ROME - The leaders of France, Italy, Germany, Britain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain and the European Union welcomed Wednesday the US-Iran ceasefire and...
MADAGASCAR - Madagascar has declared a two‑week nationwide state of energy emergency amid severe fuel shortages caused by the US and Israel's war in Iran.
SEOUL - North Korea fired "multiple unidentified ballistic missiles" on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, shortly after reporting a similar launch from the North's capital area the previous day.
WASHINGTON - Iran will have to give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium or the United States will "get it", Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday, while remaining unclear on how that would be done.
NICKERIE - The Mungra Medical Center.(MMC) is currently carrying out an eye mission in the Nickerie District.
PARAMARIBO - Justice and Police Minister Harish Monorath praised former President Chandrikapersad Santokhi at the funeral service that was held last Tuesday.
ANGOLA - Torrential rains that swept across Angola in recent days have killed more than 30 people, according to a new toll reported by Angolan public television on Tuesday.
IRAN - US-Israeli strikes have hit the key Iranian oil export terminal of Kharg island, media reported Tuesday. "The American-Zionist enemy has carried out several attacks on Kharg island,...
MOSCOW - A school teacher was stabbed to death on Tuesday by her 17-year-old student in the Perm region of Russia in the Urals,...
ISTANBUL - A gunman was killed and two were injured in a shootout near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called a "heinous act of terror".
LONDON - Wireless Festival has been cancelled after headliner Kanye West was blocked from coming to the UK. The government refused permission for West,...
UNIVERSE - Nasa has released the first photographs taken by the Artemis II astronauts during their fly-by of the Moon. The first image, above, shows an 'Earthset' as the astronauts glimpsed...
LONDON - Doctors in England walked out for the 15th time in just over three years Tuesday in an increasingly bitter dispute with the government over pay and jobs.
PANAMA CITY - One person died and two more were injured Monday after a truck carrying fuel exploded near a bridge that crosses the Panama Canal, authorities said.
West Coast of Africa - More than 1,700 people have now joined the legal action against travel company Tui after becoming ill while on holiday in the Cape Verde islands,...
IRAN - President Donald Trump warned that "a whole civilization will die" in Iran on Tuesday if the country does not heed his ultimatum to...
PARAMARIBO – The union which represents the workers at the Civil Aviation and Safety Authority Suriname (Casas) has strongly injected to the reappointment of Anjulio Wolf as director and labeled the decision controversial.
PARAMARIBO – The exodus of nurses is increasingly putting pressure on Suriname’s healthcare sector. Health, Welfare and Labor Minister André Misiekaba...
WASHINGTON - US president Donald Trump made an expletive-filled threat Sunday to destroy Iran's civilian infrastructure, demanding Tehran bow to his demands for a deal to reopen the Gulf to shipping...
IRAN - Strikes hit a petrochemical complex near the Iranian city of Shiraz on Monday, local authorities said, shortly after an attack on another facility further south.
COLOMBO - Sri Lanka on Monday raised prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by nearly a quarter, blaming higher global prices triggered by the Iran war. As well as gas, Sri Lanka also imports all of its oil and buys coal for electricity generation.
SOMALIA - Somalia says it is ready to begin its first offshore oil drilling operations, with a Turkish government-owned drilling ship expected to arrive off its coast on Friday.
SEOUL - South Korean president Lee Jae Myung expressed regret to Pyongyang Monday over drones sent into North Korea earlier this year, actions he called "irresponsible".
US - US television presenter Savannah Guthrie has returned to NBC's Today show, telling her co-anchors it was "good to be back", as the search for her mother continues.
BURKINA FASO - Burkina Faso has rejected a report that said more than 1,800 civilians have been killed in acts amounting to "crimes against humanity" in the three years...
