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Air strikes on Syria’s northwestern Idlib region stopped yesterday after the government announced it had agreed to a truce following more than three months of deadly bombardment.
But militants dominating Idlib warned that regime violations would effectively “nullify” the ceasefire, which Damascus said will depend on Turkey implementing a buffer zone in the area.
Most of Idlib province and parts of...
Japan and South Korea yesterday rescinded each other’s favoured export partner status in an escalating row as relations between the US allies hit a new low.
The two countries are mired in long-running disputes over the use of forced labour during World War II.
But Tokyo, which made the first move despite US calls for both to calm tensions amid concern...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) said yesterday that it hopes to avoid a new arms race with Russia and not deploy nuclear weapons on European soil after Washington and Moscow ripped up a landmark Cold War-era missile pact.
The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, concluded by then-US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, limited the use...
Two rescue ships with 164 migrants on board, including two pregnant women, were seeking a safe harbour yesterday, after Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini insisted that they would not be allowed into Italy.
Spanish non-governmental organisation Open Arms rescued 69 migrants from waters off the Libyan coast overnight to raise the total aboard its vessel to 124, the organisation said...
Two men from Thailand’s insurgency-hit south have been arrested and linked to several small bombs which rattled Bangkok yesterday as it hosted a regional summit attended by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, leaving four people wounded but not disrupting the diplomatic event.
Thailand, which has a grim history of political violence and is fighting a long-running rebellion in the...
Bangladeshi twins who were joined at the head were recovering yesterday after Hungarian surgeons performed a marathon 30-hour operation to separate their skulls and brains.
The three-year-old twins, named Rabeya and Rukaya, suffered from a rare embryological disorder affecting an estimated one in every five to six million births.
They were “stable after the final separation,” said Andras Csokay, a neurosurgeon...
The 24th World Scout Jamboree, which was held in West Virginia in the United States from July 22, came to a close yesterday. The event was attended by thousands of scouts and scouting leaders from 167 countries, including Qatar.
During their participation in the camp, members of the Qatari delegation received the medal of world friendship, mountaineering and kayaking. Khalid...
Jubilation erupts on social media as landmark reform ends male 'guardianship' on women travelling abroad.
Saudi Arabia will allow women to travel abroad without approval from a male "guardian", the government has announced, ending a restriction that drew international censure and prompted extreme attempts to flee the kingdom.
The decree announced on Friday comes after high-profile attempts by women to escape their guardians, despite...
London Stock Exchange has agreed to buy financial information provider Refinitiv in a $27bn deal aimed at offering trading across regions and currencies and establishing the British company as a rival to Bloomberg.
The deal, which was confirmed yesterday and is subject to regulatory and shareholder approval, will expand LSE’s trading business beyond shares and derivatives into currencies and make...
Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden came under heavy fire over healthcare, immigration and criminal justice reform on Wednesday night, but fought back against a stage full of rivals eager to knock him off his perch during a contentious debate.
On the second of back-to-back nights of debates among Democrats vying to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in 2020, the former...
Rwanda has shuttered its frontier with Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo after a third case of the deadly virus was detected in the border city of Goma, the Congolese presidency said yesterday.
The announcement coincided with the first anniversary of an epidemic that has claimed more than 1,800 lives, stoking dread that the disease may spread from eastern DRC to...
A leading Tory rebel who voted down Theresa May’s Brexit deal has warned Boris Johnson that he and dozens of colleagues will block any attempt to pass the agreement again – even if the Irish backstop is removed.
Mark Francois, one of 28 Tory MPs who repeatedly held out against May’s deal, said Johnson had been very clear at a...
Police evacuated thousands of residents from a town yesterday after torrents of water cascaded from a nearby reservoir after a dam was damaged, with officials warning that subsequent flooding posed a risk to life.
Footage posted on social media showed water gushing from the Toddbrook Reservoir which sits above Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire, central England.
Police said the wall of the...
Members of the Youth Panel’s final cohort continue to get lessons in volunteering, event management and social media by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) as part of the preparations for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
More than 50 young people who represented 30 different countries recently visited stadium and infrastructure sites and continued to enjoy exclusive access...
