World
Sicily closes airport as Etna and Stromboli volcanoes erupt
Streets of Catania’s city centre covered in black ash, slowing traffic, as residents try to clean up.Italy’s Mount Etna and the smaller Stromboli volcano sp
Gas leak at Malaysia’s main international airport sickens 39
Authorities say leak traced to abandoned skid tank at aircraft engineering facility.A gas leak at Malaysia’s main international airport has left 39 people ill
Away from global attention, Sudan is starving
The risk of a devastating famine is rising exponentially across Sudan. According to a recent report by the United Nations’ hunger monitor, a “stark and rap
China and Russia highlight ‘tectonic shifts in global politics’
Comments come at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit – a regional bloc that Moscow and Beijing see as a counterweight to US ‘hegemony’ on the wor
What does Israel want in Gaza?
While Israel has given the world some hope by saying on Thursday that it would consider the latest draft of a ceasefire proposal submitted by Hamas, the current
Pro-Palestine protesters scale roof of Australia’s Parliament House
The four protesters rolled out several banners that said, ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ and ‘No peace on stolen land’.Pro-Palestin
World’s oldest artwork discovered in Indonesian cave
The painting was dated using a new technique and suggests Europe was not where cave art first emerged.Scientists have discovered what they believe to be the wor
Why is Hurricane Beryl of so much global scientific concern?
Major storm batters Caribbean earlier and with more ferocity than in previous seasons.A hurricane rips through the Caribbean – causing devastation, but alarm
What’s happening in Sudan’s civil war? | Start Here
After more than a year of civil war, Sudan is facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. Thousands of people have been killed, millions displaced
Photos: Dangerous skin diseases spreading among children in Gaza
Wafaa Elwan’s five-year-old son cannot sleep in the Gaza tent city where she and her seven children shelter, but it is not the guns of war that cause his nigh
Gaza policy makes US a ‘target’: Former officials
The 12 officials say the cover provided to Israel has ‘ensured’ the US’s ‘complicity’ in the war on Gaza.A group of former United States government of
Taiwan says China seized fishing boat near Chinese coast
Taiwan demands Beijing release crew and vessel seized from outside Taiwanese waters near Kinmen Islands.Chinese coastguard officials have seized a Taiwanese fis
