The death toll from a major earthquake in western Japan reached 100 Saturday, as rescue workers fought aftershocks to carefully pull people from the rubble. Deaths had reached 98 earlier in the day, but two more deaths were reported in Anamizu, while officials in Ishikawa prefecture,

At least 18 Palestinians killed after Israeli attacks targeted a house in Khan Younis overnight. Israeli forces raiding locations across the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem with reports of fierce Palestinian resistance. UN humanitarian chief says Gaza has become a

In his first campaign speech of 2024, President Joe Biden cast his likely election opponent, Donald Trump, as a fundamental threat to American democracy. "Whether democracy is still America's sacred cause is the most urgent question of our time," Mr Biden said.

The US Supreme Court has said it will hear a historic case to determine if Donald Trump can run for president. The justices agreed to take up Mr Trump's appeal against a decision by Colorado to remove him from the 2024 ballot in that state. The case will be heard in February and

Two elderly women were pulled from the rubble, but hopes of finding other survivors faded as thousands of rescuers raced against the clock four days after the 7.5-magnitude quake on New Year's Day. Thousands of rescuers from all over Japan have been battling aftershocks and roads

Myanmar’s military government has pardoned more than 9,000 prisoners, including 114 foreign nationals, to mark the country’s Independence Day. Friends and families of prisoners gathered outside the high-security Insein Prison in the commercial capital Yangon as the releases

Iran blamed Israel and the United States on Wednesday for twin bomb blasts that killed at least 84 people in the country’s south, ripping through a crowd commemorating Revolutionary Guards general Qasem Soleimani four years after his death in a US strike.  The two explosions

The death toll has risen to 78 in the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa as of Thursday morning, after a series of earthquakes of up to 7.6 magnitude struck the prefecture and its vicinity. The most stricken city of Wajima in Ishikawa has confirmed a total of 44 deaths, the

Sweden recorded some of their coldest temperatures of the winter for a second day in a row Wednesday when thermometers plummeted as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit). The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute reported temperatures below minus 40 C and 30

The United States on Wednesday rejected any suggestion that it or ally Israel was behind deadly blasts in Iran and warned against further escalation after a suspected Israeli attack on a Hamas leader in Lebanon. At least 103 people died in southern Iran at the grave of Revolutionary

A local Hezbollah official, Hussein Yazbek, has been killed along with eight other members of the group in Israeli strikes on Wednesday amid Lebanese border clashes. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says his fighters are not afraid of war, but avoided any declaration that his forces

Two explosions have killed nearly 100 people and wounded over 200 others at a ceremony in Iran to commemorate the death of top commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in 2020. Wednesday’s attacks took place in the southeastern city of Kerman along the road leading to

When the world's last reigning Queen announced her surprise abdication on live TV, history was also made in a country far, far away. "I will hand over the throne to my son Crown Prince Frederik," Margrethe II of Denmark said in her new year address. Her decision to

Hundreds of pages of unsealed documents from a lawsuit connected to accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were publicly released on Wednesday. This is the first set of documents to be unsealed under a December 18 court order, with more expected in the coming weeks. The documents in

Two explosions minutes apart Wednesday in Iran targeted a commemoration for slain general Qassem Soleimani, killing at least 103 people and wounding more than 140, according to Iran's official news agency. The attack came on the anniversary of Soleimani's killing in a US drone

Israel decided on Tuesday to appear before The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) to defend itself against the genocide crime case filed by South Africa. According to the Israeli public broadcaster KAN, the decision was taken following intensive discussions between

The death toll has risen to 62 in the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa as of 8 am local time on Wednesday, after a series of powerful earthquakes hit the area in central Japan and the vicinity, with aftershocks and more damage reports coming in. A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck

Five people have been killed in an aircraft accident in Japan after a passenger plane was in a collision with a coastguard plane at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. The passenger plane, an Airbus A350-900 carrying 379 people, caught fire after colliding with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft

The leader of South Korea's political opposition has been stabbed at a news conference in the southern port city of Busan. Lee Jae-myung, who narrowly lost the presidential elections in 2022, was stabbed on the left side of his neck on Tuesday morning. The attacker was arrested

Unrelenting Israeli bombardment rocked Gaza on Monday, while an army spokesman warned the war on the besieged territory’s Hamas rulers will continue throughout 2024. Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met troops inside Gaza on Monday, and vowed in a statement that