Turkey supports Ukraine’s NATO membership aspirations, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but he also urged for a “return to peace efforts” to end the conflict that has now raged for 500 days since Russia invaded

Earth's average temperature again reached a record level on Thursday, according to satellite data and computer simulations processed at a US university. The Climate Reanalyzer at the University of Maine recorded a planetary average of 17.23 degrees Celsius (63 degrees Fahrenheit),

OceanGate, the company behind the submersible that imploded during a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic last month, has said that it will suspend operations. A banner, written in red, appeared at the top of its website on Thursday with the message: “OceanGate has suspended all

The United States has decided to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, multiple news outlets have reported, despite concerns about the deployment of weapons banned by more than 100 countries. A weapons package including cluster munitions fired from a 155-millimetre Howitzer cannon is

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday condemned Israeli authorities for their excessive use of force during a two-day raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank this week. At least 12 Palestinians were killed during the operation, including five children. In

The United Nations’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has called for increased access to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine as Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of planning acts of sabotage at what is Europe’s

A suspected nitrate oxide gas leak in South Africa has led to the deaths of 16 people, local officials say. The victims - including women and children - died from gas inhalation at an informal settlement in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. Wednesday's leak has been linked to

Russian jets harassed U.S. hunter-killer drones that were conducting a mission against ISIS targets in Syria on Wednesday, a U.S. commanding officer said. At about 10:40 a.m. local time, three U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones were conducting a mission against Islamic State targets in Syria when

Monday was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction. The average global temperature reached 17.01C (62.62F), surpassing the August 2016 record of 16.92C (62.46F) as heatwaves sizzled around the world. The

Israeli forces began withdrawing from the Palestinian city of Jenin on Tuesday after carrying out one of their biggest military operations in the occupied West Bank for years. Two witnesses said they saw convoys of Israeli military vehicles leaving Jenin in what appeared to signal an

Pope Francis has condemned last week’s Quran burning in Sweden, saying he felt “angry and disgusted” to see the Muslim holy book desecrated. In an interview published on Monday in the United Arab Emirates newspaper Al Ittihad, the pope said: “Any book considered

In a latest round of restrictions, the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has imposed ban on women beauty salons, giving them one month to wrap up their businesses. In a latest round of restrictions, the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has imposed ban on women beauty salons,

An international office to investigate Russia over its invasion of Ukraine opens on Monday, July 3, in The Hague, in the first step towards a possible tribunal for Moscow's leadership. The International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression (ICPA) features

Four people were been killed and four others injured in a mass shooting in Philadelphia on Monday night, in the latest outbreak of gun violence in the United States. Police said that a gunman, wearing a bulletproof jacket, opened fire on the street in Philadelphia's southwestern

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the burning of a copy of the Quran by an Iraqi refugee in Stockholm, Sweden and underlined the need to take measures to avoid anti-Muslims. In a phone conversation with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Fuad Hussein on Saturday, Guterres

The Israeli army has launched a massive military operation on the Jenin camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. It started with multiple drone strikes. Videos published on social media showed smoke rising from a residential block. The Palestinian Health Ministry said at least

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's eastern province of Papua on Monday, but did not trigger a tsunami, an official said. The country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency had first released the quake at 6.2 magnitude before revising it, according to

US President Joe Biden has scheduled a diplomatic trip to Europe this month with stops in the United Kingdom, at the NATO summit in Lithuania and to attend meetings in Finland, the White House said Sunday. Biden is set to depart July 9 for Britain, where he will meet with the King

The Jeddah-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called for collective measures to prevent future Quran burnings, days after a copy was torched outside a Stockholm mosque. On Sunday, the OIC urged member states to "take unified and collective measures to prevent the

Israel has approved the purchase of a third squadron of F-35 stealth fighter jets in a deal worth $3 billion, the Ministry of Defense said on Sunday. The additional 25 aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin will bring the number of F-35s in Israel’s air force to 75, the