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

Israel has launched air raids on Syria, aiming at locations near the government-held city of Homs, but Syrian air defences downed most of the missiles, according to a state media report. The SANA news agency, quoting an army statement early on Sunday, said the missiles flew over parts

Russia has launched an overnight drone attack on Kyiv after a 12-day break, according to a senior Ukrainian official, with air defence systems preliminarily destroying all targets on their approach. “Another enemy attack on Kyiv,” Serhiy Popko, a colonel general who heads

Police and rioters have clashed in the French city of Marseille as the country battles with a fifth night of unrest after the death of a teenager shot by police at point-blank range. Videos show police using tear gas, as officials say at least 56 arrests have been made in the southern

The UN Security Council ended a decade-old peacekeeping mission in Mali after the ruling military demanded the withdrawal of the international force battling an armed rebellion “without delay”. The end of the operation, known as MINUSMA, follows years of tensions and

At least 48 people have been killed when a truck apparently lost control and rammed into other vehicles and pedestrians at a busy junction in western Kenya. “So far, we can confirm 48 dead and we are suspecting one or two are still trapped under the truck,” local police

A tyre blowout caused a bus to lose control and crash into a road divider before bursting into flames, killing at least 25 people in western India, police told local media. Police officer Sunil Kadasne told the Press Trust of India news agency that 33 people were on the bus when the

A Florida murder suspect who featured thrice on America's Most Wanted was arrested after nearly four decades on the run. Donald Santini, 65, allegedly used 13 aliases to evade arrest for the 1984 murder of a 33-year-old Florida woman, authorities said. He was serving as the

Mostly young rioters have clashed with police and looted shops in a fourth day of violence across France, while unrest was also reported in some French overseas territories, following the police killing of a 17-year-old during a traffic check earlier this week. Some 45,000 police

Despite the tragic incident involving the ill-fated Titan submersible that resulted in the loss of all five passengers, OceanGate, the company responsible for operating the vehicle, continues to offer future expeditions to the Titanic shipwreck on its website.  Promoting trips

The government said it would deploy 2,000 riot police to deal with any unrest, a day after a 17-year-old was shot in the chest by a police officer who then appeared to lie about the circumstances of the killing. The shooting had already sparked unrest in several Paris suburbs

Some 64 flights were cancelled at Geneva's international airport on Friday, it said, after operations were halted for four hours because of a strike by workers at the start of the busy summer travel season. "Because of the social action... the direction decided a temporary

A deep orange-brown sun shined through hazy skies as smoke from Canadian wildfires spread across North America and beyond, choking millions of people and triggering severe air quality alerts. Here's why the fires are so smoky and why people should be concerned. Why is there so

Unrest continued in France for a second night as security forces deployed in their thousands to quell protests over the killing of a 17-year-old by police, which French President Emmanuel Macron described as “inexcusable” while also pleading for calm as justice took its

This year’s Hajj pilgrims reached Jamarat Bridge on Wednesday as they advanced through Mina for the final rite, the stoning of the devil, on the first day of Tashreeq. About 2 million pilgrims made their way to the massive multistory complex in Mina from Muzdalifah, where they