AFP

Mediators were making a final push Wednesday to seal a Gaza truce and hostage release deal, after a Qatari official involved in the talks expressed hope an agreement could be reached "very soon".

Tech giant Meta's shock announcement that it is ending its US fact-checking program triggered scathing criticism Tuesday (January 8, 2025) from disinformation researchers who warned it risked opening the floodgates for false narratives.

The New York judge presiding over President-elect Donald Trump's hush money case on Friday set sentencing for 10 days before his January 20 inauguration and said he was not inclined to impose jail time.

Climate change sparked a trail of extreme weather and record heat in 2024, the United Nations said on Monday, urging the world to pull back from the "road to ruin".

Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev had demanded that Russia take responsibility for accidentally shooting the plane which crash-landed in Kazakhstan. The plane crash left 38 out of the 67 passengers dead.

From January 1, it will be forbidden to sell single-use vapes in Belgium, a bid to protect young people's health as part of a national anti-tobacco plan.

Domestic flights accounted for around 33,000 cancellations, while international flights cancellations stood at around 34,000, the company said.

A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India’s northeast has resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Sunday.

The British government Tuesday announced £35 million ($44 million) in aid to repair Ukraine's energy grid battered by Russian strikes and help Ukrainians confronting freezing winter weather.  

The EU is to give Turkey an extra one billion euros ($1.05 billion) in funding to care for the Syrian refugees it is hosting, European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said Tuesday.