Russian strikes across Ukraine wounded more than a dozen people in at least four regions, at a time when US-led peace talks to end the war have ground to a halt, officials said Tuesday. In the northeastern city of Sumy, Russian drones wounded 15 people and damaged apartment buildings and a medical facility, the head of the region said….
Former Senegalese President Macky Sall and three others will present visions in public UN hearings, offering a rare live-streamed glimpse into the race to succeed Antรณnio Guterres. The other nominees are former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, Argentinian diplomat Rafael Grossi and Costa Rican economist and former vice-president Rebeca Grynspan. The UN has never had a woman secretary-general in nearly…
Iran said it has executed two men convicted of espionage, according to the judiciary news outlet Mizan News Agency, on Monday. The executions were carried out at dawn, the report said. The sentences had been issued by a revolutionary court in the city of Karaj, near the capital Tehran. Iranian authorities accused the two men of spying for Israelโs…
The US government on Monday launched a tool for refunding more than $166 billion in revenue from tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump and subsequently struck down by the Supreme Court. The conservative-majority high court in February ruled against a swath of Trumpโs tariffs, marking a stinging rebuke of his key economic policy and opening the door to refunds….
Belgium is set to fully digitise its short-term work permit and commuter permit application process from May 1, 2026, in a major administrative overhaul aimed at modernising how foreign worker documentation is handled. In a joint official communiquรฉ released on April 17, 2026, on its website, by Belgiumโs Federal Immigration Office on Monday, under the new system, employers and…
Iranโs foreign ministry said Monday that the United States was not serious about pursuing diplomacy, citing what it called โviolationsโ of their two-week ceasefire. โWhile claiming diplomacy and readiness for negotiations, the US is carrying out behaviours that do not in any way indicate seriousness in pursuing a diplomatic process,โ said ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei in a weekly press…
