Start your day informed with the AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top stories for 25th May, covering the latest developments you need to know.
Rescuers are battling against the clock to retrieve survivors from under rubble after a hotel under construction collapsed in the Philippines. Officials said the death toll had now risen to three, while 17 others remained missing. The building in the city of Angeles, north of the capital, Manila, was intended to be a nine-storey hotel.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned that Washington will explore “alternatives,” to handle Iran in the event it fails to reach a good peace deal with the country’s government. Rubio made the veiled threat while speaking to reporters in the Indian capital New Delhi.
U.S. President Donald Trump has appeared to u-turn on a statement made on Saturday, where he suggested an agreement between Iran and the U.S. was almost complete. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday that a deal with Tehran wasn't yet negotiated, in apparent contradiction to earlier comments saying that an agreement was “largely negotiated.”
More than 900 suspected cases of Ebola have now been identified, including 101 confirmed cases, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said. The reported rise came after the WHO raised its risk assessment for the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to “very high.”
Australian activists who returned home after being detained by Israel while trying to bring aid to Gaza have claimed they were subject to abuse while in Israeli custody. The allegations of mistreatment follow similar reports from European activists involved in the flotilla who returned home last week. Israel’s prison service denies the allegations.
The U.S. military said it completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran, a two-hour operation that hit dozens of targets. Washington described the stri...
AnewZ travelled across northeastern Syria, where the scars of more than a decade of war remain visible but many believe the country has entered a new ...
Georgian Post is no longer focused solely on delivering letters and parcels across Georgia. The state postal operator is transforming into a regional ...
French DJ and electropop musician Kavinsky, whose atmospheric sound shaped a generation of electronic music fans, has died at the age of 50, French authorities said on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia said its overnight strikes on Iran-backed group targets in Iraq were carried out in self-defence and warned it would take further military action if the groups launched new attacks against the kingdom.
Yemen warned the Houthis were seeking to replicate Iran's Strait of Hormuz strategy in the Red Sea, as U.S. President Donald Trump said there was a "good chance" of a deal with Tehran but warned strikes could resume if talks failed.
The U.S. military said it completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran, a two-hour operation that hit dozens of targets. Washington described the strikes as a "powerful response" to Iranian missile attacks targeting U.S. forces in the Middle East a day earlier.
A fire involving two gas vessels at Egypt's Damietta port has prompted conflicting reports over whether the incident was caused by a drone strike or an onboard technical fault. Egyptian authorities said there were no casualties.
Thousands of migrants have crossed into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta from Morocco, overwhelming border security and prompting local authorities to call for a national emergency and military deployment.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said a missile that crashed in eastern Poland overnight was most likely Russian, after the incident prompted the country to scramble fighter jets and place its air defences on high alert.
Tehran and Moscow have discussed a deadly Ukrainian drone strike on an Iranian commercial vessel in Russia’s territorial waters in the Caspian Sea, while also reviewing broader cooperation in the region.
The European Union has released €3.47 billion ($4 billion) to Ukraine to help finance the purchase of drones, missiles, air defence systems and Swedish-made Gripen fighter jets, the European Commission has announced.
Iran is expected to receive its first shipment of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air-defence missile launchers within weeks, according to three sources familiar with the agreement, in an exclusive interview with Reuters.
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