Washington, United States—President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Florida Senator Marco Rubio as secretary of state, The New York Times reported Monday night. It quoted three people as saying that the decision is not final, but that Trump...

Dozens of world leaders convene in Azerbaijan on Tuesday for COP29 but many big names are skipping the UN climate talks where the impact of Donald Trump’s election victory is keenly felt. More than 75 leaders are expected in Baku over two days bu...

Turkish passport holders await registration yesterday at a hotel in the BIEL area of Beirut’s waterfront, ahead of their evacuation from war-torn Lebanon on Turkish Navy ships at the Beirut port.
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Author Han Kang became on Thursday the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for work characterized by the correspondence between mental and physical torment as well as historical events. Han is best known for her book “The Vegetarian...

The incursion of a Chinese military aircraft into Japanese airspace is a “serious violation of sovereignty”, Japan’s chief government spokesman said Tuesday, a day after the incident over the East China Sea. “The violation of ou...

US President Joe Biden denounced an “outrageous” Russian assault on Ukraine’s power grid Monday, vowing Moscow would “never succeed” in its ongoing war and pledging continued support to Kyiv. Russia fired hundreds of drone...

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday denied any political link to the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov as the tech tycoon spent a second day in French custody following his surprise arrest at a Paris airport. Numerous questions have been raised ab...