The embattled short-video app TikTok on Friday suggested it might seek justice in US courts after President Donald Trump signed an order banning US citizens from carrying out transactions with TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance. “We will pursue all remedies available to us in order to ensure that the rule of law is not discarded […]

The death toll from Tuesday’s port explosion in Beirut has risen to 154, a Lebanese Health Ministry official said, as rescue workers struggled to remove chunks of debris in the search for survivors and victims. “Due to the massive damage we are seeing, we have doubts there are survivors, but we still have hope,” one rescue […]

At least 17 people were killed Friday when a passenger jet was ripped in two after it overshot and skidded off the runway upon landing in southern India, officials said.

Thousands of South Korean trainee doctors went on strike on Friday, protesting outside parliament against a government plan to boost the number of medical students in the country, arguing it would be a poor use of additional funding for the sector. The government said its goal to increase the number of medical students by 4,000 […]

Almost 150 people were extrajudicially killed by Malian and Burkinabe security forces in Mali between April and June, the UN said Thursday. A 2012 revolt in northern Mali has since spread to the centre of the poor Sahel country, as well as to Burkina Faso and Niger despite the presence of thousands of French and […]