Category: World

Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller It Was Just an Accident won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, handing the festival’s top prize to a … Read More

The bodies of 79 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s health ministry said on Saturday – a toll that does … Read More

A Syrian government delegation visited a notorious camp in the Kurdish-administered northeast that hosts families of suspected Islamic State group jihadists, the new authorities’ first visit, both sides said Saturday. … Read More

French taxi drivers will next week step up protest actions, including paralysing access to Paris airports and the French Open tennis championship, in an increasingly acrimonious stand-off with the government, … Read More

US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the end of 1940 in one of his famous “fireside chats”, first coined the idea of the US as the “arsenal of democracy”. Congress … Read More

US President Donald Trump threatened sweeping 50 per cent tariffs on the European Union starting June 1, citing a breakdown in trade talks with the bloc, and simultaneously took aim … Read More

The US Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the United States, according to internal agency … Read More

Suriname, South America’s smallest country, is preparing for an inflow of cash from a huge offshore oil find, with the president insisting the population will receive a direct share of … Read More

The European Union is considering cutting more than 20 banks from SWIFT, the international payments system, as well as lowering a price cap on Russian oil and banning the Nord … Read More

Hours after US President Donald Trump hosted a dinner with holders of his cryptocurrency token $TRUMP, the White House has not released a complete list of attendees, which reportedly included … Read More