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Authorities did not immediately release whether there were injuries or deaths; video from the scene showed the much larger Atlantic Asphalt tanker hit the paddlewheel cruise boat while it appeared to be docked as metal and glass crashed and crunched
Climate action has slipped down the political agenda for Western governments as U.S. President Donald Trump has withdrawn international funding, while wars in Ukraine and West Asia have added to inflationary pressures and the need to spend on security
Microsoft services are beginning to come back online after a massive global outage left millions of users without access for nearly 18 hours
The big ticket question confronting the Quad, however, is how Donald Trump engages with the group and the broader Indo-Pacific geography
Turkiye and Qatar were working to develop and diversify their energy partnership, and that their cooperation in the defence industry would continue to grow, a statement from the Turkish presidency quoted President Erdogan as saying
Kyiv's forces are using drones and ground robots to help defend against Russia's army along the about 1,200-km front line snaking down eastern and southeastern Ukraine
Ruled by a military junta since a 2023 coup, Niger is battling violence by jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group. Thousands have been killed in the violence over the last decade
The current Syrian government, in place since Islamist-led fighters overthrew Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, has allowed Westerners to obtain entry visas at Damascus airport or border crossings
Two Arab-majority parties, Raam and the Joint List, secured a combined 19 seats in last month's election, winning nearly a sixth of the 120-seat parliament and potentially emerging as kingmakers in efforts by Eisenkot to form a government
UN Security Council renewed targeted sanctions under its Yemen sanctions regime for another year
The IRGC says the strait is closed, while the U.S. Navy claims that it has opened a southern route for commercial vessels to exit and enter the critical waterway, while maintaining its “ironclad blockade” of Iranian ports
How Megaspeed, a little-known firm started by Alice Huang, became a linchpin in the chips trade
The hawkish former Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas said it was not up to Russia to decide who would represent Europe
Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to being unfaithful to his wife but did not disclose details about the alleged relationship with Chinese executive Alice Huang.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has not had access to key nuclear facilities in Iran since Israel and the U.S. launched a 12-day conflict in June 2025 that included strikes on nuclear sites
Alice Huang, mainly known as a former top executive at Megaspeed International, also founded Shanghai Longteng Intelligent Computing, a company based in the eastern Chinese economic hub
Responding to a question during an ‘Ask Me’ session on Instagram, Rahul Gandhi said, “It is a great book, they are all reading it. They can’t resist reading it and then they have got to comment on it”
The attack came a day after intense shuttle diplomacy in U.S.-led talks to end the war approaching its fifth year
Tankers are still facing attacks across the strait, despite a rebound in traffic and expectations of a de-escalation in the US-Israeli war on Iran, that have been reflected in falling oil prices
Russian media reported the car belonged to Sergei Zavorotniy, a onetime spokesman for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov