Start your day informed with the AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top stories for the 23rd May, covering the latest developments you need to know.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a NATO foreign ministers’ summit in Sweden that peace negotiations between Washington and Tehran were making “progress.” However, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, quoted by state media, said differences between the two sides remained “deep and significant.” The conflicting messages came as mediators from Pakistan and Qatar arrived in Tehran, with talks expected to continue this weekend.
The World Health Organisation has warned that the risk of a widening Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has escalated to “very high” at the national level. Health authorities are racing to contain transmission of the Bundibugyo strain, which currently has no approved vaccine or specific treatment.
At least 90 miners have died in a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China. Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered authorities to launch an investigation into the incident.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the military to prepare a retaliatory response after Moscow said six people, including children, were killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on a student dormitory. Kyiv denied targeting a dormitory and dismissed the accusation as “manipulation.”
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has carried out a largely successful test flight of its upgraded Starship rocket. The uncrewed rocket lifted off from Texas on Friday at 17:30 local time, 22:30 GMT, before splashing down in the Indian Ocean around an hour later. The mission came just days after reports that the company was planning a record-breaking $1.75 trillion stock market listing.
Peace is Armenia’s only reliable guarantee of security, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said in comments in Dublin, where he also...
Hungarian authorities have recovered nearly $20 million in cash hidden in buildings and buried in forests as part of a bribery investigation into M...
U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold a historic trilateral meeting in She...
Iran’s Assembly of Experts has backed withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and overhauling the country’s defence doctrine, calling both steps essential to national security and deterrence.
President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday to let European representatives join the next round of Ukraine peace talks while the United States continues to work towards what could become the largest prisoner exchange of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Microsoft struggled to restore its services on Friday after a major outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot across the United States and Asia-Pacific region.
Here's your AnewZ Technology Daily Brief for the 13th of November. This week, a Microsoft outage hit Australian agencies, Google restricted mapping data in South Korea, a lawsuit targeted advanced AI development, and Nvidia faced a leadership crisis after Jensen Huang's resignation.
Kazakhstan-linked hackers stole thousands of national security documents from Tajikistan, a cybersecurity company has said.
Hungarian authorities have recovered nearly $20 million in cash hidden in buildings and buried in forests as part of a bribery investigation into Miklós Seszták, a former minister under ex-Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold a historic trilateral meeting in Shenzhen on 19 November. The White House says the talks will focus on nuclear arms reductions, with Iran also on the agenda.
U.S. negotiators floated the idea of Ukraine withdrawing from the eastern Donbas region in exchange for NATO membership, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
China is taking its space technology ambitions beyond its borders, with a major deal to build a network of 20 artificial intelligence-powered satellites for Oman.
Europe will send a team of diplomats to Ukraine peace talks rather than a single envoy, EU leaders agreed on Friday at the end of a summit in Dublin.
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