An Israeli strike targeting a residential building in a town south of Beirut on Tuesday killed at least 20 people, Lebanon’s health ministry said. “The raid by the Israeli enemy on Barja left 20 dead,” the ministry said of the raid on the coastal town around 20

Turkiye on Monday sacked three mayors in the Kurdish-majority southeast on alleged “terrorism” charges, despite Ankara’s apparent desire to seek a rapprochement with the Kurdish community. In a sweep, the mayors of the cities of Mardin and Batman as well as the

Protests have erupted in Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired the country's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. Netanyahu said a "crisis of trust" between the two leaders led to his decision, adding that his trust in Gallant had "eroded" in recent

As millions of people cast their ballots in the US election, claims have been spreading online questioning the integrity of the vote. Election officials have been quick to reject some accusations of voting malpractice - including one from Donald Trump - as well as clarifying some

As polls close across the United States, early results show both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump securing expected victories in strongholds, leaving the election outcome hinging on seven swing states. With 93 crucial electoral votes up for grabs, the race is exceptionally tight,

Polls are now open in more than 40 states, along with the District of Columbia. They include six of the seven battleground states that are likely to decide the election: North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona. Polls will soon open in the states of

Both Harris and Trump are due to hold their final rallies of the campaign in the coming hours. Trump will speak in Grand Rapids, Michigan, while Harris takes to the stage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At an earlier rally in North Carolina, Trump announced that he intends to place

Elon Musk can keep giving $1m to voters, judge rules The giveaway by Mr Musk's America PAC is set to end on Tuesday, and the final recipient has already been determined, a lawyer for the billionaire said in a court hearing on Monday. In a surprising turn, the lawyer revealed

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticised the "cowardly attempts to intimidate our diplomats" in a deepening diplomatic row with Canada. Both countries expelled each other's top envoys last month after Canadian officials accused India of being involved in violent

Your kids may have come home from school singing this infectious ditty, or another like it. But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe are connected. They are often called Eurasia for that reason. The divide is pretty arbitrary, more

Kamala Harris pledged to “do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza” in her final rally in Michigan on Sunday, as she attempted to appeal to the state’s large Arab American and Muslim American population two days out from the election. Michigan is home to about

Gaza rescuers said Israeli strikes in Gaza Sunday killed at least 31 people, as the Israeli military pursues its offensive against Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in the north of the enclave. "Since dawn today, at least 17 citizens have been martyred in Israeli attacks on

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are pushing their closing messages as they tour several swing states today, with just two days to go before America decides its next president Both candidates have intensified their campaign efforts in crucial swing states, signaling the importance of

India has denied that Home Minister Amit Shah plotted to target Sikh activists on Canadian soil as it criticised Canada over the “absurd and baseless” allegations. Shah, 60, oversees India’s internal security forces as home minister. He is viewed as the

United States presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are touring southern swing states as they try to attract voters with just three days left until Election Day. The Democratic and Republican leaders headed to the southern battleground state of North Carolina on

UNICEF condemns Israel’s “indiscriminate strikes on the Gaza Strip”, noting that more than 50 children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Jabalia in northern Gaza in the past 48 hours alone. Israeli forces dropped a stun grenade on a polio vaccination centre in

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has promised a “teeth-breaking” response to Israel and the United States after Israel targeted Iranian military sites in retaliatory strikes late last month. “The enemies, both the US and the Zionist regime (Israel),

A Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, hit a location used by policemen, killing at least one senior officer and wounding 30 other people, police said. Four civilians were among those injured in the late afternoon attack on Friday, said a national

Fourteen people have been killed when a concrete roof above the entrance of a railway station in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad collapsed. At least three other people were rescued on Friday and hospitalised with serious injuries, Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said. He

Emergency teams in Spain are continuing their efforts to locate dozens of people still missing in what is the worst flooding disaster in generations. More than 200 people are known to have died, with most fatalities happening in the Valencia region, but the death toll is expected to