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Myanmar’s military government on Wednesday said it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military service under its newly activated conscription law, with call-ups beginning after the April festival marking the country’s traditional New Year. The conscription measure was activated on Saturday by order of
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Israel has formally complained after a senior Vatican official spoke of “carnage” in Gaza and what he termed a disproportionate Israeli military operation following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. The Israeli Embassy to the Holy See called the comments by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, “regrettable.” In
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The wife of Julian Assange said Thursday the WikiLeaks founder would die if extradited to the United States, ahead of his latest appeal against the UK ruling. Assange, 52, is wanted on espionage charges in the US and has been detained in the high-security Belmarsh Prison in southeast London since
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US President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned “dumb” and “shameful” comments by Donald Trump on NATO, in one of the incumbent’s most blistering attacks yet on his likely Republican rival in November’s election. The 81-year-old Democrat accused his predecessor of bowing to Russian President Vladimir Putin, after Trump
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Republicans impeached US President Joe Biden's immigration chief on Tuesday, the culmination of months of attacks on the Democratic administration as they seek to make border security a key issue in November's election. Conservatives in the House of Representatives, which is narrowly controlled by Republicans, blame
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty on Wednesday by a Paris appeals court of illegal campaign financing over his failed 2012 re-election bid, confirming a previous ruling by a lower court. He was sentenced to one-year year prison sentence, half of which suspended, that can be served through
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The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Tuesday that his armed group’s cross-border shelling into Israel would only end when Israel’s “aggression” on the Gaza Strip stops, saying diplomatic efforts so far to bring a halt to hostilities along Lebanon’s border seemed to only benefit Israel.
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Yemen’s Houthis claimed credit on Monday for shooting two missiles at what the militia believed to be an American ship, the Star Iris, in the Red Sea, resuming assaults on ships in the critical commerce channel after a four-day lull. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said that their naval
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An Israeli rescue operation freed two Israeli-Argentine hostages held by Hamas militants in Rafah on Monday, but supporting airstrikes killed nearly 70 Palestinians in the southern Gaza city where about one million displaced civilians have sought refuge from months of bombardments. The mission by the Israeli military, the Shin Bet
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he has not spoken to U.S. President Joe Biden since the president made remarks about Israel's military response to Hamas being "over the top." Netanyahu was speaking in an interview on the "Fox News Sunday"
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A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Mindanao, Philippines, on Saturday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was 10 km (6 miles) deep, GFZ said. The Philippine seismology agency had a different reading, saying it was a magnitude 5.9 earthquake with a depth of 27 km
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French authorities said Sunday they planned to revoke birthright citizenship on the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, the country’s poorest overseas territory, which has been struggling with social unrest and a crippling migration crisis. Mayotte is composed of two islands that voted to stay part of France in 1973,
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: UNICEF said on Friday that 700,000 children in Sudan were likely to suffer from the worst form of malnutrition this year, with tens of thousands who could die. A 10-month war in Sudan between its armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has devastated the country’s
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the army to prepare to “evacuate” hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza’s Rafah, his office said Friday, after Washington warned it would not support any ground assault on the city. The show of defiance against Israel’s main ally came after
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Upon receiving his first treatment for cancer, Britain’s King Charles III retreated to Sandringham House, a private estate where the monarch has long taken refuge while walking and shooting along the windswept North Sea coast of eastern England. Sandringham, the private home of the last six British monarchs, sits
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The foreign ministers of Qatar, Egypt, and Jordan arrived in Riyadh on Thursday, Saudi Press Agency reported. Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi will be attending a consultative ministerial meeting on events in Gaza. The ministers were