A blanket of thick fog covers Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. Winter in the southern African country feels colder than ever. Thousands of garment workers have lost their...
Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to recognise Palestine as a state has been attacked as “appeasement towards jihadist terrorists” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime...
👉Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced that the UK would recognise the...
The parents of a 12-year-old boy who died from due to a “brain-eating amoeba” say they are “terrified it will happen to someone else”. Jaysen Carr...
A British-Israeli woman who was held hostage by Hamas for more than a year has said Sir Keir Starmer is “not standing on the right side...
A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake has struck off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, causing a tsunami. A tsunami of up to four metres (13 feet) was recorded...
“Children are eating out of piles of garbage” – that was the answer from UNICEF’s Salim Oweis when I asked if aid was now getting to...
We are on our way to Gaza with the Jordanian military. The aircraft is hot and noisy and as we get closer, the atmosphere gets more...
Two Israeli human rights organisations have said the country is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. In reports published on Monday, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human...
The United Nations has condemned airdrops on Gaza, warning they risk killing the starving Palestinians they are intended to help. Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and...
Israel has agreed to support a “one-week scale-up of aid” in Gaza – but the United Nations has warned more action is needed to “stave off...
Israel has begun a pause in fighting in three areas of Gaza to address the worsening humanitarian situation. The IDF said it would halt fighting in three...
Bob Geldof has accused the Israeli authorities of “lying” about starvation in Gaza – after Israel’s government spokesperson claimed there was “no famine caused by Israel”....
Yehuda searches through a downstairs room looking for a plastic bag containing the most precious of objects. It’s a small, blackened Rubik’s Cube that belongs to...
At least five people have been killed after Russia and Ukraine traded aerial bombardments overnight, officials have said. In Ukraine, the southern region of Dnipro and...
A US passenger plane made a dramatic plunge minutes after take-off to dodge another aircraft – injuring two cabin crew and causing passengers to shoot out...
At least 33 people have been killed and more than 168,000 forced to flee their homes in Thailand and Cambodia – as Donald Trump says both...
Disaster zones have been declared in two provinces of Turkey as new wildfires broke out on the Mediterranean coast. Smoke billowed across the sky in the...
A fierce tropical storm has torn through the Philippines’ mountainous north, in a week which has already seen floods and landslides claim at least 25 lives....
Riverdance star Michael Flatley is hoping to become Ireland’s next president, a court has heard. The revelation came out in a legal case over work done...