ATHENS - Greek police have arrested a Polish man on charges of spying on the military base used by US forces in Crete, according to the ANA news agency.
COLOMBO - Sri Lanka is repatriating on Friday the remains of 84 Iranian sailors killed when their frigate was sunk nine days ago by a US submarine, the Foreign Ministry said.
RUSSIA - The US has loosened sanctions on other countries buying Russian oil and petroleum already loaded on vessels at sea to curb the economic impact of the US-Israel war with Iran.
IRAN - The United States and Israel have struck more than 15,000 targets since the start of the Iran war late last month,...
IRAN - The bodies of 84 Iranian sailors killed in a torpedo attack by a US submarine last week in the Indian Ocean are due to be flown...
VS - All six members of a US military refuelling aircraft's crew have now been confirmed dead after it crashed in western Iraq, US Central Command (Centcom) has said.
PARAMARIBO - Health, Welfare and Labor Minister André Misiekaba recently pointed out that he does not know anything about an illegal trade...
PARAMARIBO – Social Affairs and Housing (Sozavo) Minister Diana Pokie recently made it clear that the government has not issued an official call to citizens to get registered for a house.
NEW YORK - A red fox that sneaked onto a cargo ship off the coast of Southampton has successfully made it thousands of miles across the Atlantic and is now in the care of the Bronx Zoo in New York.
VENEZUELA - Venezuela's interim president Delcy Rodriguez on Wednesday appointed a new minister of hydrocarbons, a key position in the oil-rich nation that she previously held under ousted leader Nicolas Maduro.
TEHRAN - Iran's new supreme leader ordered the vital Strait of Hormuz oil shipping lane to remain closed on Thursday, while US President Donald Trump said stopping the Islamic republic's "evil...
CHINA - China has approved a sweeping new law which claims to help promote "ethnic unity" - but critics say it will further erode the rights of minority groups.
IRAN - At least 25 Iranian attacks have targeted US sites or locations housing US military personnel in the Middle East since the start of the war, according to an AFP analysis.
WELLINGTON - New Zealand's national airline said Thursday it would cancel 1,100 flights over the next two months, pointing to the impact of the war in the Middle East.
BANGKOK - Three crew members were "believed to be trapped" aboard a Thai bulk carrier that was hit by two projectiles on...
INDIA - The shockwaves of a war being fought nearly 3,000 km away are now reaching India's kitchens. As the US-Israeli strikes on Iran disrupt energy shipments through the Strait of Hormuz,...
US - One in three Americans said they made some sacrifice last year -- like skipping a meal or rationing medicine -- to cover health care costs, according to a survey released Thursday.
ERITREA - A well-known Eritrean satirical cartoonist has been freed from prison after spending 15 years in detention without charge, his family and friends have told the BBC.
PARAMARIBO – The Ministry of Transportation, Communications and Tourism (TCT) had summoned bus owners for a reregistration so...
PARAMARIBO – The chairman of parliament, Ashwin Adhin, does not rule out that multiple people will be stripped of their immunity...
WASHINGTON – Here are the latest events in the Middle East war:
UKRAINE - Ukrainian forces have struck one of Russia's "most important military factories", President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
SEOUL - North Korea respects Iran's choice of a new supreme leader, state media said Wednesday, accusing the US and Israel of undermining regional peace.
BEIRUT - An Israeli air strike killed seven people and wounded 18 others in an east Lebanon town on Wednesday, the Lebanese health ministry said,...
TEHRAN - Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is "safe and sound" despite reports of an injury during the war with Israel and the United States, said the son of the Iranian president on Wednesday.
UNITED KINGDOM - The European Union and United Kingdom have demanded that Israel halt a surge in violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that has taken...
DUBAI - An unknown projectile hit a cargo ship in the strategic Strait of Hormuz abutting Iran, causing a fire and forcing the crew to...
SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi Arabia said Wednesday it had intercepted seven ballistic missiles in separate attacks targeting an air base and its eastern region,...
CONGO - A French national working for the UN in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed, the French president has said, following reports of drone strikes on the eastern city of Goma.
ETHIOPIA - At least 30 people have been killed in floods and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall in the Gamo Zone of southern...
PARAMARIBO - The Ministry of Public Works and Spatial Planning (OWRO) has already started preparing for the next rainy season.
PARAMARIBO - The registration of state employees who believe that their promotion, anniversary pay out or permanent designation is unjutaly...
CARACAS - The National Assembly of Venezuela on Monday moved forward with mining reforms pushed by the United States, which is anxious to secure access to the country's critical minerals.
BEIJING - Passenger train service between China and North Korea is set to resume on Thursday, six years after it was suspended in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, travel operators told AFP.
US - The family of a girl critically injured during a mass shooting at a Canadian school is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, claiming it had been aware the suspect had been planning an attack but failed to alert the...
TEHRAN - Iran vowed on Tuesday that not one litre of oil would be exported from the Gulf while its war with the United States and Israel continues, in a stark rebuke to President Donald Trump's boast that the...
HONG KONG - Journalists covering the war in the Middle East are facing increasing restrictions and censorship imposed by governments...
LEBANON - Lebanon's president has called for direct negotiations with Israel as part of a proposal to end the escalating conflict with...
GENEVA - The United Nations said Tuesday that more than 100,000 people had been newly displaced within Lebanon in just 24 hours amid...
UKRAINE - Russian strikes killed two people and wounded more than a dozen others in the embattled eastern Ukrainian town of Sloviansk, regional authorities announced Tuesday.
INDIA - India ordered tighter controls over natural and cooking gas on Tuesday following import disruptions caused by the Middle East war, with restaurants warning it could spark widespread closures.
