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Plane catches fire after skidding off runway in South Korea; 179 dead

About 1,560 firefighters, police officers, soldiers and other officials were also sent to the site

North Korea's Kim targets US in new 'hardline strategy' announcement

Many experts however say a quick resumption of Kim-Trump summitry is unlikely as Trump would first focus on conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East

Netanyahu undergoes prostate removal amid crises on multiple fronts

Complications from prostate enlargement are common in men in their 70s and 80s, Dr. Shay Golan, head of the oncology urology service at Israel's Rabin Medical Center, told Israeli Army Radio

2024: A year of triumphs, setbacks for Putin, here's how it unfolded

Putin ran for a fifth term in office with his top opponents either jailed or exiled abroad. But in a rare show of defiance, thousands of Russians queued in the January cold to sign petitions

Charles Dolan, founder of US media firms HBO, Cablevision dies at 98

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of our beloved father and patriarch, Charles Dolan, the visionary founder of HBO and Cablevision, a statement said

15 hurt in Florida after train hits fire truck that drove onto tracks

Video of the collision shows the fire truck driving around cars stopped at the crossing with its lights flashing to cross the double tracks

Syria's embassy suspends services as Lebanon hands over its army officers

The embassy announced on its Facebook page that consular work was suspended until further notice at the order of the Syrian foreign ministry

Trump sides with Musk in debate over foreign workers roiling supporters

Trump, in an interview with the New York Post on Saturday, praised the use of visas to bring skilled foreign workers to the US. The topic has become a flashpoint within his conservative base

Israel detains director of one of Gaza's last functioning hospitals

Israel's military on Saturday confirmed it detained the hospital director and called him a suspected Hamas operative while providing no evidence

Putin apologises to Azerbaijani counterpart for tragic plane crash incident

The plane was flying on Wednesday from Azerbaijan's capital of Baku to Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, when it turned toward Kazakhstan and crashed

Days after Pak airstrike, Afghan Taliban targets several points in Pakistan

The statement, which was released by Taliban did not directly specify that Pakistan was hit, but said the attacks were conducted "beyond the "hypothetical line"

Another lottery jackpot surpasses $1 bn. Is this a new normal in US?

In October, Mega Millions said it hoped increased ticket revenue and less stratospheric odds would lead to more people winning, even as prizes grow extraordinarily high

Ukrainian troops face risk of losing more hard-won land in Kursk to Russia

Army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi has said that Ukraine launched the operation because officials thought Russia was about to launch a new attack on northeast Ukraine

9th telecom firm hit by massive Chinese espionage campaign: White House

Biden administration officials said this month that at least eight telecommunications companies, as well as dozens of nations, had been affected by the Chinese hacking blitz known as Salt Typhoon

Airstrike on insurgents mistakenly killed 10 civilians: Nigerian military

Since 2017, some 400 civilians have been killed by such accidental strikes by the military, according to the Lagos-based SBM Intelligence security firm

Israeli airstrikes hit Yemen airport as jet was landing: UN official

United Nations said the injured crew member was taken to a hospital in Jordan, and Tedros was heading back to Geneva, where WHO is based

Canadian ministers meet with Trump's nominee in bid to avoid tariffs

Trump has threatened to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian products if Canada does not stem what he calls a flow of migrants and fentanyl

US Treasury secy Janet Yellen says country could hit debt limit in mid-Jan

The department has in the past deployed what are known as extraordinary measures or accounting maneuvers to keep the government operating

Israeli army forcibly removes staff, patients from Gaza hospital: Officials

Kamal Adwan Hospital has been hit multiple times over the past three months by Israeli troops waging an offensive against Hamas fighters in surrounding neighbourhoods

Online debate over foreign workers in tech shows rift in Trump's coalition

The rift laid bare the tensions between the newest flank of Trump's movement wealthy members of the tech world including billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy