Thirty years ago, on June 18, 1996, Benjamin Netanyahu became prime minister of Israel for the first time. His victory in the May 29, 1996 election was a moment of profound political reorientation for the Israeli state.
The “very nature” of the US is to break its promises and treaties, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Sunday, following renewed attacks on the Islamic Republic’s coastal infrastructure.
A country club in the town of Caraballeda in Venezuela has been turned into a makeshift hospital, with survivors of the country's devastating earthquakes receiving care and sleeping on mattresses on the grass.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's cabinet is the first to keep approval ratings in the upper 60s or higher for the first nine months. (Photo by Ken Suzuki)
BRUSSELS — French President Emmanuel Macron has instructed his administration to find new EU-wide taxes to finance the bloc's next €2 trillion budget, according to five officials familiar with the discussions.
Michel Kuka Mboladinga, known as ‘Lumumba Vea’ and widely regarded as the most famous football supporter of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), missed his country’s World Cup victory over Uzbekistan after being denied entry to the US, Reuters reported Saturday.
Iraqi security forces arrested legislators and politicians as well as current and former senior government officials on Sunday in what sources described as part of a wider anti-corruption campaign by Prime Minister Ali Al Zaidi.
Iraqi authorities have arrested 47 officials in an anti-corruption campaign led by new Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) said on Sunday.
The EU Commission’s headquarters in Brussels shut down air conditioning on its lower floors during a record-breaking heatwave, while the offices of President Ursula von der Leyen and other top officials kept their cooling intact, Politico reported on Friday, citing employees and internal alerts. The perceived double…
Albania has been gripped by four weeks of protests that began over controversial plans to build a luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, and have since evolved into a broader movement demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama.
As rescuers search for survivors in the aftermath of Venezuela’s twin earthquakes, a young girl who spent two days trapped beneath the rubble of her collapsed five-story apartment building has recounted her ordeal to RT.
The US Supreme Court is expected to wrap up its current term in the coming days, with several major cases still pending, including three involving US President Donald Trump's far-reaching assertion of presidential powers, two important election-related cases, and one involving a crackdown by states on transgender at…
The Wallabies are banking on a settled squad - and an extra week’s training - to guard against the same sluggish start to an international season that scuttled their chances of a Lions series win within the first 120 minutes of last year’s campaign.
US President Donald Trump has nominated Oklahoma law enforcement veteran Lance Schroyer to lead US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency at the center of the administration’s controversial crackdown on immigrants. If confirmed, he would become ICE’s first permanent director in nearly a decade.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has attended 24 matches in just over two weeks all across North America at this summer's World Cup, clocking up thousands of air miles.
For much of Saturday afternoon, the skies above Charlotte were a dirty shade of gray, the rain bucketing down, the wind blowing hard, thunder and lightning seen and heard every minute or so.
The grass is being measured, the rackets strung and the strawberries and cream prepped. But what will the great British weather serve up this year for Wimbledon fortnight?
PARIS — France has recorded 1,000 more deaths than usual this month — an increase that can be attributed to the record-breaking heat wave the country has gone through in recent days.
The UK’s entire fleet of nuclear-powered attack submarines is currently stuck in port due to maintenance bottlenecks, the UK Defence Journal reported on Saturday. Former Royal Navy officers have warned that the situation makes Britain look “toothless” amid the continued stand-off with Russia.