US President Joe Biden will address the nation on Thursday at 11:00 a.m. (1600 GMT), the White House said on Wednesday. This comes after Biden’s Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election to former President Donald Trump. Harris rose to the top of the Democratic ticket in...

Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed 40 people around the eastern city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley on Wednesday, according to the country’s health ministry, and at dusk more strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs. Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have exchanged fire for over a year in...

Donald Trump will be the first president to take office while several criminal cases against him are pending. His ascent to the highest office in the US while facing dozens of criminal charges has left the country in uncharted territory. Many of his legal problems will go away when he steps...

The leader of the far-right Freedom Party in the Dutch parliament has called on the government to seek to strengthen diplomatic relations with the Bashar al-Assad regime in order to facilitate the return of Syrian refugees to areas it considers "safe" in Syria, according to the website of...