WORLD

Today the River Jordan lacks its biblical proportions, but some 200,000 visitors still flock to the traditional spot for Christian baptisms in Jordan in a typical year. I watch as groups from the US and Europe take turns to dip…
Read More...

China has reported 60,000 Covid-related deaths in just over a month, the first major death toll released since the country stopped its zero-Covid policy. China has been widely accused of underreporting coronavirus deaths, despite…
Read More...

Around 25 million people in California are under a flood watch this weekend as the latest in a parade of deadly storms drenches the state. Several waterways have flooded, at least 19 people have died and thousands have been told to…
Read More...

The US justice department is reviewing documents marked classified found in President Joe Biden's former office at a think tank, the White House says. About 10 of the files were discovered in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center in…
Read More...

Less than a week into 2023, America reckoned with yet another school shooting. This time, a six-year-old student allegedly shot his teacher with a handgun at a Virginia elementary school, in what police described as an "intentional"…
Read More...

A five-year-old has been swept away by floodwaters in California as the state's death toll from a series of storms rises to 14. The boy and his mother were reportedly in a truck taking him to school when the vehicle was overcome by…
Read More...

It's an order that girls and women across Afghanistan had been dreading ever since the Taliban returned. On Wednesday, girls in their hijabs turned up to their university campuses to be blocked and turned away by Taliban guards. Footage…
Read More...

Vladimir Putin believes Russia is not to blame for the war in Ukraine, adding both countries are "sharing a tragedy". During a televised address with senior military officials, the Russian president said he continued to see Ukraine as a…
Read More...

US federal drug agents say they seized enough fentanyl in 2022 to kill every American. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says they intercepted 379m potentially deadly fentanyl doses, which is just two milligrams. The DEA…
Read More...

Little Haftom is nearly five years old. His name means "wealthy" in the Tigriyna language but he weighs just half what he should. As the doctor pulls up his jumper and tracksuit bottoms to show his spindly arms and legs, his mother…
Read More...