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.
Saudi Arabia’s air defences have intercepted and destroyed a hostile drone over the Riyadh region, according to the Saudi-led coalition fight...
Police were deployed across Paris on Saturday, as a curfew was set to take effect in the Republique and Chât...
A drone strike hit a power station in northern Sudan early Sunday (1 November), sparking a fire and triggering loud explosions, witnesses said....
The U.S. has approved the sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine in a deal worth an estimated $2.1 billion, but Kyiv could face years of delays before receiving the weapons it urgently needs to defend against intensifying Russian attacks.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has ordered Iran's armed forces to respond to any threat immediately and without geographical limits in statements posted to social media platforms on Saturday (31 October).
Demonstrators carrying Iranian flags and placards supporting the hijab gathered outside the Azerbaijani Embassy in London.
A Chinese-made AI chip has matched Nvidia’s H200 in tests conducted by its developer, marking a potential breakthrough in China’s efforts to reduce its dependence on foreign technology.
A hacking group linked to North Korea is widely believed to be behind the theft of $6.3 billion from cryptocurrency giant Binance, a cyberattack that experts describe as the largest cryptocurrency heist on record.
Police were deployed across Paris on Saturday, as a curfew was set to take effect in the Republique and Châtelet-Les Halles areas from 11pm Saturday until 6am Sunday (1 November).
A drone strike hit a power station in northern Sudan early Sunday (1 November), sparking a fire and triggering loud explosions, witnesses said.
Gen Z protests swept 34 German cities on Saturday (31 October) over education and living costs. Violence erupted in Frankfurt, where shops were looted and police reported Molotov cocktail attacks.
Iran designated Britain's Royal Navy and Royal Air Force as terrorist organisations on Sunday, (1 November), and classified the country's foreign intelligence agency, MI6, as a hostile group, according to a statement from the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
Thousands protested in Albania's capital, Tirana, on Saturday (31 October), demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation over perceived corruption allegations and dissatisfaction with the government over a lack of jobs and poor education standards.
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