Rescue efforts are continuing as Spain endures its worst flooding disaster in decades, with at least 95 people confirmed dead and dozens more missing after huge rains swept the eastern…
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Taiwan: Typhoon Kong-rey halts business and flights
Typhoon Kong-rey, the biggest typhoon to directly hit Taiwan in nearly 30 years, has made landfall on the island’s eastern coast. Schools and workplaces across Taiwan were closed on Thursday…
N Korea: Pyongyang fires intercontinental ballistic missile in longest flight yet
North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew for 86 minutes – the longest flight recorded yet – and over 1,000km, before falling into waters off its east…
Haiti: Gangs imposing own rules, inflicting ‘extreme brutality’ – UN
An escalating gang war in Haiti killed or injured 1,745 people between July and September, according to a new United Nations human rights report, representing a more than 30 percent increase from…
UK: Labour government increases taxes by £40bn
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has told lawmakers that taxes will rise by 40 billion British pounds ($52bn) in order to plug a hole in the public finances…
Venezuela: Caracas recalls ambassador to Brazil over BRICS snub
Vezuela has pulled its ambassador from Brazil in a spat over Caracas’s failed recent bid to join the BRICS alliance of major developing nations.Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry announced the diplomatic punch…
Lebanon: Hezbollah says will only accept ‘suitable’ truce
Hezbollah’s leader, Naim Qassem, says that the group will keep fighting in its war with Israel until it is offered ceasefire terms it deems acceptable, as Israeli forces bombarded the…
Russia: President Putin carries out massive nuclear strike test
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has launched an exercise of the country’s nuclear forces featuring missile launches in a simulation of a retaliatory strike amid soaring tensions with the West over…
USA: Trump capitalises on Biden calling Americans ‘garbage’
Trump learned about the Joe Biden footage while he was on stage in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with Senator Marco Rubio and immediately referenced Hillary Clinton’s 2016 remark calling some Trump supporters…
Iran: Tehran to increase military budget by 200 %
Iran plans to triple its military budget, a government spokeswoman has said, as tensions with rival Israel rise amid the Israeli military’s offensives in Gaza and Lebanon. The planned defence budget…