Winds fuel Bronx apartment fire, leaving 7 hurt and more than 200 out in the cold
A five-alarm fire broke out early Friday morning in the Bronx, leaving seven people hurt and more than 200 others displaced. Officials said the col ...
Oscar nominations postponed because of LA fires
The announcement of this year's Oscar nominations has been delayed by two days because of the deadly wildfires raging in the Los Angeles area. ...
US airlines cancel over 1,300 flights after winter storm
Airlines in the United States canceled more than 1,300 flights on Monday after a winter storm brought snow, ice and freezing temperatures to a broa ...
Israeli soldier flees Brazil amid investigation into Gaza war crimes: Report
An Israeli soldier accused of committing war crimes during the Gaza war has fled Brazil where authorities were pressing for an investigation, local ...
Arrest of Aws Salloum: What We Know About the ‘Azrael of Sednaya’
The name Aws Salloum, nicknamed the “Azrael of Sednaya,” has dominated social media over the past few hours. Syrian activists widely sh ...
Malaysia grants WeChat, TikTok licenses to operate under new law
Malaysia’s communications regulator said it granted Tencent’s WeChat and ByteDance’s TikTok licenses to operate in the country un ...
Instagram might release its own new AI editing tool in 2025
Instagram has been on a roll lately, dishing out updates left and right to make things easier for creators to connect and create with their followe ...
Iran lifts ban on WhatsApp and Google Play, state media says
Iranian authorities have lifted a ban on Meta’s instant messaging platform WhatsApp and Google Play as a first step to scale back Internet re ...
WhatsApp ends support for older Android phones this new year
WhatsApp holds a significant 31.8 percent share in the e-commerce market, following Meta’s Facebook pages at 61.7 percent, according to a Mar ...
Kremlin dismisses reports of Bashar al-Assad’s wife, Asma, seeking divorce
The Kremlin on Monday rejected Turkish media reports which suggested that Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of former Syrian president Bashar al ...
Albania bans TikTok for a year after killing of teenager
Albania on Saturday announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month that raised fea ...
Malaysia to resume hunt for Flight MH370, 10 years after it vanished
Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, its transport minister said on Friday, more th ...
Sacks of chemicals, plastic fruit … and millions of pills: inside a Damascus Captagon factory
On the outskirts of Damascus, just a 20-minute drive away from the centre of the Syrian capital, lay a sprawling industrial complex. Professed to b ...
Veteran Egyptian Actor Nabil El-Halafawy Passes Away at 77
Veteran Egyptian actor Nabil El-Halafawy has passed away at the age of 77.  El-Halafawi leaves behind a legacy of many Egyptian films ...
Inside Bashar al-Assad's 'human slaughterhouse', the notorious Syrian prison of horrors
Syrian prison authorities at the infamous Saydnaya Military Prison near Damascus called it "the party", a sick euphemism for an alleged crime again ...
Iron body presses and torture rope: horrors of Syria’s ‘slaughterhouse’ prison emerge
Footage emerging from the liberation of Bashar al-Assad’s most notorious prisons has revealed that the Syrian dictator used underground cells ...
Deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's car collection exposed
The Presidential Palace of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was stormed over the weekend, with rebel forces uncovering – among other things &nda ...
US judge orders Google to open app store to rivals
A US federal judge has ruled that Google must allow Android apps made by rival technology firms onto its Google Play app store for three years star ...
Five convicts escape from Portuguese high-security penitentiary in 'well-planned' prison break
Five convicts escaped from a high-security penitentiary in Portugal, in what the authorities said was a well-planned prison break. The inma ...
Four-storey building collapses in Cairo's Heliopolis; no deaths reported
Five people were successfully rescued from the debris of a four-storey building that collapsed in Cairo's upscale district of Heliopolis Tuesday, w ...