SEOUL - North Korea's powerful sister Kim Yo Jong on Wednesday accused Japan of "transformation into a war state" as Tokyo strengthens...
IRAN - US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Iran would be "hit very hard" unless the strategic Strait of Hormuz is reopened "very soon",...
US - It's been a humbling few days for Donald Trump, even if the American president is reluctant to acknowledge it. In a series of setbacks,...
INDONESIA - CCTV footage released on Monday showed the moment a pilot was caught at Jakarta airport trying to smuggle 70,000 ecstasy pills in his suitcase.
MADRID - Spain has returned to Morocco 70,000 of 72,000 migrants who entered its north African territory of Ceuta last week, the interior minister said on Tuesday.
FRANCE - More than 150 migrants have been rescued after the boat they were using to cross the Channel caught fire on Tuesday morning, French authorities have said.
PARAMARIBO - The administration of President Jennifer Simons is currently busy putting a tight grip on the import of chemical substances for the gold mining sector.
PARAMARIBO - The BID team reportedly intercepted and arrested a drug trafficker at the Johan Adolf Pengel (JAP)...
ETHIOPIA - Funerals have been held for some of the 14 people killed in a landslide that hit a mountain monastery hosting an overnight prayer session in Ethiopia's northern Amhara...
DUBAI - An unknown projectile hit a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, a key point of tension in the US-Iran conflict, on Tuesday as President Donald Trump insisted the waterway could reopen within hours.
US - Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche has formally withdrawn President Donald Trump's plan for a fund that could have been used...
US - Ariana Grande is to take a "much-deserved break" from public appearances and will no longer star in an upcoming musical production in London when she ends her Eternal Sunshine tour next month.
UK - Reform UK says it would use the military to forcibly return small boat migrants to France.
MOROCCO - A letter from Morocco's King Mohammed VI has confirmed that the country has named a major highway after US President Donald Trump.
NICKERIE - A joint team of the western division of the Police Force Suriname raided a private residence located in the Krappahoeklaan on Wednesday.
PARAMARIBO – Bus drivers who transport passengers from Albina to Paramaribo and vice versa recently expressed grave concern over the fact that the police have beefed up surveillance and vehicle inspections at the checkpoint located at Stolkertsijver.
IRAN - Iran on Monday executed two men convicted of spying for Israel, the judiciary said, the latest in a wave of hangings over alleged espionage.
IRAN - Iran has denied Donald Trump's claim that new talks on ending the conflict would begin on Monday, after the US president called...
CHILE - A violent storm battered central and southern Chile, causing flooding and at least killing two people, authorities said on Saturday.
INDONESIA - Five people have been found dead and 41 are missing after an Indonesian ferry carrying at least 250 people caught fire while at sea, officials say.
SPAIN - At least 72 people died during last week's mass influx of migrants into Spain's Ceuta enclave, when tens of thousands of people — mostly swimming around...
PERU - A small plane carrying foreign tourists to view Peru's famous Nazca Lines crashed on Saturday, killing all 13 people on board, police said.
PAKISTAN - The body of renowned British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja has been recovered on Broad Peak in Pakistan,...
MOSCOW - At least three people have been killed and 21 injured after a homemade explosive device was detonated at an Italian restaurant in Moscow,...
US - Donald Trump says he has cancelled strikes against Iran, provided a deal is struck "rapidly" with the country.
COLOMBIA - A truck bomb exploded near a Colombian police station in Cucuta, a city close to the Venezuelan border, wounding 14 people just days before President-elect...
CARACAS - Venezuela and the tiny Dutch island of Aruba are set to resume flight connections for the first time since 2019, Aruban authorities said Friday.
IRAN - Donald Trump has achieved a Middle East diplomatic breakthrough with an agreement for Hamas to disarm, but remains trapped in the escalating conflict with Iran...
PAKISTAN - Renowned mountaineer and former British Army soldier Nirmal Purja is among those killed in an avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan,....
CHINA - China said it conducted military and coast guard drills on Saturday near the Scarborough Shoal, a contested reef in the South China Sea, in a show of force after recent clashes with the Philippines in the disputed waters.
PARAMARIBO – The Office of the President recently started providing food parcels to the communities that have been hit hard by the pollution of the Saramacca River.
PARAMARIBO - The controversial statement made by MP Cedric van Samson (VHP) has led to an uproar in The National Assembly.
SPAIN - Spain has condemned the "selfish, polarising and unlawful" reaction of some EU countries to the influx of about 60,000 migrants from Morocco to Ceuta.
MOSCOW - Ukrainian drones sank a Russian container ship in the Black Sea on Saturday, forcing its 17-member crew to abandon the vessel,...
JAPAN - Japan's National Intelligence Bureau held its first meeting Friday, a body aimed at centralising information-gathering following claims that security weaknesses...
CHILE - Chile said Thursday it was restoring diplomatic relations with Venezuela after severing ties with then-president Nicolas Maduro's administration in 2024.
WEST YORKSHIRE - A disgraced funeral director who failed to bury or cremate people and gave bereaved relatives the ashes of strangers has been jailed for 20 years.
BRAZIL - A justice of Brazil's Supreme Court has authorized a police investigation of a son of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a judicial source told AFP on Thursday.
CORONIE – Residents from the Coronie District recently made it clear that they want to receive clean tap water and that they are fed up with getting brown and dirty water out of their faucets even though they pay their water Bill every month.
PARAMARIBO - The Ministry of Home Affairs (BIZA) has reportedly blocked payment of salaries to 1,448 civil servants who are considered to be ghost employees because they did not show up at the reregistration.
SPAIN - About 60,000 migrants have crossed into Spain's North African territory of Ceuta from Morocco in the last 24 hours, Ceuta's president said,...
