On Friday, Liverpool’s majority owners Fenway Sports Group announced the sale of a minority stake in the club a consortium including Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Savarin. Former Queens Park Rangers owner Amit Bhatia is expected to become the…
In the five years since the Taliban seized back power in Afghanistan, the country’s worsening human rights record has drawn sanctions and aid cuts. But despite refusing to officially recognise the fundamentalist movement’s government, some countries are concluding that engaging with…
Five years after seizing Kabul and returning to power, the Taliban is celebrating what it calls a more secure and “free” Afghanistan. But its anniversary comes amid mounting criticism over sweeping restrictions on women and girls, economic hardship and continued…
Palestinian residents of three houses in Qusra near Nablus in the occupied West Bank say they have been effectively cut off from food and other supplies since the siege by Israeli settlers began on Sunday. But the Israeli military has…
Seven people were killed and at least three injured in an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon on Saturday, Lebanon’s state news agency said. It is the worst toll since deals in June saw a lull in hostilities between Israel…
In tonight’s edition: The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading, with the virus now confirmed in a sixth province, raising fresh concerns about new infections and the challenges facing health teams. Meanwhile, the migration crisis between…
US President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed concerns about the toll on sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, who have endured a record deployment of almost nine months, saying that the deployment had been “not nearly long enough”. The…
19-year-old British cyclist Finlay Tarling died following a “serious accident” during the eighth stage of the Tour of Portugal race, tour organisers and his team said on Friday.
In Kenya, since the end of June, at least 19 elephants, mostly females or young animals, have died after displaying the same symptoms, notably partial paralysis preventing them from standing.
Rescue workers rushed to free a survivor Friday in Colombia amid the rubble left by a powerful earthquake nearly four days earlier that killed at least 285 people and injured 4,000. Some 400 people were still missing and tens of thousands…