News24 | UN warns Afghanistan earthquake casualties could rise ‘exponentially’ affecting multitudes

04/09/2025 03:48 News 24

The UN on Tuesday said the earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that has killed more than 1 400 people could impact “hundreds of thousands”, and warned of an “exponential” rise in casualties.

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News24 | France joins other Western allies in recognising Palestinian state

France has recognised a Palestinian state at a world summit in New York on Monday, nearly two years into the war in Gaza, joining Western allies such as Britain and Canada, who made the same historic move on Sunday and were rebuked by Israel....

23/09/2025 03:56 News 24

News24 | Trump to return to the UN as Gaza, Ukraine conflicts rage

World leaders gather in New York this coming week for a UN General Assembly dominated by US President Donald Trump’s return to the rostrum, war in Gaza and Ukraine, rising Western recognition of Palestinian statehood and nuclear tensions with Iran....

23/09/2025 03:54 News 24

News24 | Putin grants Russian citizenship to US woman who accused Biden of sexual assault

Tara Reade, an American woman who claimed US ex-President Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, was granted Russian citizenship on Monday, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin....

22/09/2025 19:05 News 24

News24 | Hong Kong evacuates 6 000 residents after discovery of ‘fully functional’ WWII bomb

Hong Kong planned to evacuate thousands of residents on Friday as a bomb left over from World War II was discovered at a construction site....

19/09/2025 16:33 News 24

News24 | Israel orders mass evacuation of Gaza City, warns of ‘unprecedented force’

The Israeli military warned on Friday it would operate with “unprecedented force” in Gaza City, telling residents to flee southwards as it presses its ground offensive on the territory’s largest urban centre....

19/09/2025 15:33 News 24

News24 | No evidence Putin wants a Ukraine peace deal but he’s ‘bitten off more than he can chew’ - MI6 chief

MI6 chief Richard Moore said that he sees “no evidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin has any interest in a negotiated peace short of Ukrainian capitulation....

19/09/2025 12:21 News 24

News24 | Furious French expected to shut down country over anger at Macron

France was bracing for a day of nationwide disruption in a show of anger over President Emmanuel Macron’s budget policies, with unions vowing mass protests, public transport set to be paralysed in places due to strikes and officials warning of possible disturbances by extremist elements....

18/09/2025 09:10 News 24

News24 | US adversaries Russia, Iran, China exploiting Charlie Kirk killing to ‘encourage violence’ - report

Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state media are exploiting conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination to advance thousands of false claims aimed at undermining the US and other adversaries, a research group warned on Wednesday....

18/09/2025 07:20 News 24

News24 | Russia opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, claims widow Yulia Navalnaya

Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said two foreign laboratories had carried out tests on biological samples obtained from her husband that showed he was poisoned....

17/09/2025 11:30 News 24

News24 | ‘Famine can never be a weapon of war’: EU announces sanctions on Israel, new measures for Russia

The European Union will implement new measures against Israel and further raise support for Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said....

17/09/2025 05:01 News 24

News24 | UK says fighter jets to join NATO missions over Poland

UK fighter jets will join a NATO operation over Poland to help defend the alliance’s eastern flank after Russian drones entered Polish airspace last week, the defence ministry said on Monday....

16/09/2025 20:34 News 24

News24 | Israel bombs Gaza ‘with an iron fist’ as US warns Hamas has just days to accept ceasefire

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Gaza was “on fire”, warning his country “will not relent” after witnesses told AFP of massive strikes in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory....

16/09/2025 05:01 News 24

News24 | China’s ‘false legal narratives’ on WWII are an attempt to put pressure on Taiwan, says US

China is intentionally mischaracterising World War Two-era documents to put pressure on and isolate Taiwan given those agreements made no determination of the island’s ultimate political status, the de facto US embassy in Taipei said....

15/09/2025 12:50 News 24

News24 | Trump says his patience with Putin is running out

US President Donald Trump on Friday said his patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin was running out but stopped short of threatening new sanctions over the Ukraine war....

12/09/2025 19:05 News 24

News24 | South Korea workers detained in the US head home after ‘bewildering’ immigration raid

Hundreds of South Korean workers were headed back to Seoul after their detention in a US immigration raid that Hyundai warned will delay completion of its battery factory....

12/09/2025 18:28 News 24

News24 | Charlie Kirk a ‘casualty of war’, will spur action from MAGA, says Steve Bannon

US President Donald Trump led prominent voices in the MAGA movement on Wednesday to describe right-wing activist Charlie Kirk as a “martyr” and “casualty of war” for conservative values after he was shot dead at a Utah university....

11/09/2025 08:17 News 24

News24 | ICC starts hearing on charges against Uganda's fugitive warlord Joseph Kony

International Criminal Court judges on Tuesday began hearings to finalise charges against fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony....

10/09/2025 19:06 News 24

News24 | Poland shoots down Russia drones which entered airspace in ‘act of war’

Poland said it scrambled its own and NATO air defences to shoot down drones after a Russian air attack on western Ukraine, the first time in the Ukraine war that Warsaw has engaged assets in its airspace....

10/09/2025 05:01 News 24

News24 | Minority of Israel soldiers ‘refuse to take part’ in Gaza war over Netanyahu’s ‘political survival’

Since completing nearly three months of deployment in Lebanon during Israel’s war with Hezbollah, Israeli reservist Natan Ruchansky has refused a fresh call-up order for Gaza, declaring himself a conscientious objector....

09/09/2025 08:50 News 24

News24 | Palestinian gunmen shoot dead six people in east Jerusalem attack: foreign minister

Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in east Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people and wounding several others, according to Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, in one of the deadliest anti-Israeli attacks since the outbreak of the Gaza war....

08/09/2025 18:11 News 24

News24 | ‘To go to war with an American city’: Anger over Trump threat to send troops to Chicago

US President Donald Trump has threatened to unleash his newly rebranded “Department of War” on Chicago, as thousands of protesters marched in the city as well as in Washington, DC, to denounce the deployment of National Guard troops and immigration agents to Democratic-led cities....

07/09/2025 07:01 News 24

News24 | Israel flattens Gaza City high-rise as it tells residents to flee

An Israeli strike flattened a high-rise in Gaza City on Saturday - the second in as many days - after the military warned people to flee south to a “humanitarian zone” ahead of a planned offensive to capture the area....

06/09/2025 12:39 News 24

News24 | Israel destroys high-rise after 30-minute evacuation warning, intensifies Gaza City offensive

The Israeli military destroyed a high-rise in Gaza City on Friday, shortly after announcing it would target tall buildings identified as being used by Hamas ahead of Israeli forces’ planned conquest of the urban hub....

05/09/2025 14:50 News 24

News24 | Ex-Labour leader Corbyn launches UK event to examine ‘government’s complicity’ in Gaza war

Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour Party leader, is set to host a two-day event examining the United Kingdom’s role in Israel’s war on Gaza, casting the “tribunal” as an attempt to bring about justice for the Palestinian people....

05/09/2025 07:00 News 24

News24 | European leaders brief Trump after summit on Ukraine security guarantees

European leaders on Thursday spoke to US President Donald Trump after holding a summit with President Volodymyr Zelensky on security guarantees for Kyiv in the event of a peace accord to end Russia’s three-and-a-half-year war against Ukraine....

04/09/2025 15:49 News 24

News24 | Anti-corruption justice minister gets 3 years forced labour for $20m embezzlement in DRC

Firebrand former Democratic Republic of Congo justice minister Constant Mutamba was sentenced on Tuesday to three years of forced labour for embezzling public funds, including reparations for war victims, an AFP journalist saw....

04/09/2025 03:47 News 24

News24 | Russia hits Ukraine with sweeping attack causing Poland to scramble aircraft

Russia launched a sweeping overnight air attack on Ukraine, injuring at least four railway workers and prompting Poland to scramble defence aircraft, Ukrainian and Polish authorities said....

03/09/2025 16:10 News 24

News24 | US court blocks Trump administration’s wartime law Venezuela deportations

A US federal appeals court ruled against US President Donald Trump’s use of a wartime law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members and blocked its use in some southern states....

03/09/2025 12:51 News 24

News24 | Xi Jinping declares China rise as ‘unstoppable’, but Trump slams plotting against the US

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia’s Vladimir Putin flanked Xi Jinping at a massive parade in Beijing, capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding by the Chinese president and his allies against the West....

03/09/2025 05:01 News 24

News24 | Ethiopia tightens grip on media ahead of 2026 vote

Ethiopia’s record of detaining journalists and attempts to control the media has caused concern as the country prepares for high-stakes election in 2026. Rights groups warn of a growing crackdown....

02/09/2025 19:17 News 24

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