LONDON, June 24 — Ships have already sailed through the Strait of Hormuz under a newly launched evacuation scheme by the UN’s shipping agency, a spokesman said today. “Ships have […]

TOKYO, June 24 — The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said today that inspections at Iranian atomic sites were “going to happen”, but did not offer a specific

TOKYO, June 24 — A Tokyo suburb has announced an emergency spending plan to buy 700 anti-bear sprays for schools and community organisations, the local government told AFP today, as

PARIS, June 24 — France today announced its first confirmed case of Ebola identified on its territory, a doctor who had returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The health

DOHA, June 24 — Oman said it would keep the Strait of Hormuz open to shipping without imposing any tolls and had designated two temporary routes north and south of

LONDON, June 24 — Darren Jones, an ally of outgoing Prime Minister ‌Keir Starmer, endorsed Andy Burnham ​to take over on Wednesday after saying he had been reassured by the

PARIS, June 24 — Authorities in northern France were scrambling on Wednesday to restore electricity to thousands of homes hit by power cuts amid a ‌blistering heatwave that has scorched

TOKYO, June 24 — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was heckled at a World War II memorial event by protesters angry about Tokyo’s further shift away from its decades-long pacifist

BEIJING, June 24 — China has a right to target people outside of its borders who contravene its ‌new law on ethnic unity, a senior official ​said on Wednesday, adding

SYDNEY, June 24 — Australian authorities ramped up surveillance and testing after a second state reported a case of the ‌highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, while neighbouring Papua New Guinea