International

GBNEWS24DESK// Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and bereaved families yesterday led calls for "top to bottom" reform of London's Metropolitan Police, after a review found the UK's largest crime-fighting force to be institutionally racist,…

GBNEWS24DESK// Workers erected barricades around a Manhattan courthouse on Monday as New York City braced for a possible indictment of Donald Trump over an alleged hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign.…

GBNEWS24DESK// Moscow is ready to help Chinese businesses replace Western firms that have left Russia over the Ukraine conflict, President Vladimir Putin told Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday during talks at the Kremlin. Speaking…

GBNEWS24DESK// UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday called on wealthy countries to move up their goals of achieving carbon neutrality as close as possible to 2040, mostly from 2050 now, in order to "defuse the climate time…

GBNEWS24DESK// Chinese President Xi Jinping met his "dear friend" Vladimir Putin in Moscow yesterday, seeking both to deepen economic ties with an ally he sees as a useful counterweight to the West and to promote Beijing's role as a…

GBNEWS24DESK// Kuwait's constitutional court on Sunday nullified last year's legislative elections and ruled in favour of reinstating the previous parliament disbanded in June, state media said. "The Kuwaiti Constitutional Court…

GBNEWS24DESK// The Iranian government has proposed to Saudi Arabia three locations for a meeting at foreign minister level, Iran's foreign minister said yesterday, citing the latest messages with Riyadh since the countries agreed to…

GBNEWS24DESK// At least 14 people were killed in a strong earthquake that shook a coastal region of Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, causing structural damage to multiple homes, schools and medical centers. The quake, which…

GBNEWS24DESK// US drone flights over the Baltic Sea are a sign of direct US involvement in conflict with Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying yesterday. Last week, a US drone crashed into the sea after being…

GBNEWS24DESK// Logging, wildfires and farming are causing mountain forests, habitat to 85 percent of the world's birds, mammals and amphibians, to vanish at an alarming rate, according to a study published on Friday. Mountain forests…