Mexico is launching a $43 billion energy infrastructure push aimed at expanding electricity generation and attracting more private investment.

In a landmark ruling against Meta, a New Mexico judge likened the company’s social media platforms to factories. The psychological harm to children who use Facebook and Instagram, he said, can be seen as their pollution.

A student opened fire at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday, killing at least five people and wounding more than 20, according to authorities, who said he also appeared to have killed his two grandparents at the family home earlier in the morning.

Spain's government said on Friday it would establish border controls for flights and ships from Italy from midnight on Saturday until September 7 in a dispute with the neighboring country over irregular migration.

The number of H5N1 bird flu cases in Australia on Saturday surpassed 200 as the southeastern state of Victoria introduced new measures to stop the deadly strain from spreading to poultry.

The death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture on July 28 has risen to 39, while more than 6,500 people remain in evacuation shelters, the prefectural government said Saturday.

Japanese residents have recently taken to the streets to protest what they see as the Takaichi administration's moves toward militarization, calling on the government to confront its wartime history and avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.

The US Senate on Friday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would impose sanctions on buyers of Russian oil, a measure that had long been championed by the late senator Lindsey Graham before his death last month, CNBC reported.

A US federal judge on Friday temporarily "barred the Pentagon from including Chinese biotechnology group WuXi AppTec on a list of companies believed to support Beijing's military," according to Reuters. Chinese experts said the ruling sends a positive signal for Chinese companies operating in the

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Central Alaska at 0450 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.

The US Senate passed a sweeping sanctions bill targeting Russia's energy sector by a vote of 86-11, and sent the legislation to the House of Representatives for consideration.

Scholars and experts across the Taiwan Strait on Friday called for deeper cross-Strait exchanges to advance China's complete reunification and national rejuvenation.The 12th cross-Strait think tank academic forum, held in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, attracted more than 50 scholars

Iran and Oman had finalized the general framework of their agreement, Hassan Ghashghavi, the spokesperson of Iranian parliament's National Security Commission, said on Friday, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.

Türkiye on Friday rejected claims circulated on social media that its newly signed trilateral defense agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan conflicts with NATO's Article 5.

An international police operation led by Spanish authorities dismantled a major criminal network involved in trafficking migrants, drugs and weapons across the Western Mediterranean, the European Union police agency Europol and Spain's Civil Guard announced Friday.

Seven Moroccan taxi drivers were sentenced to up to six months in prison and fined $1,070 each for aiding irregular migration by driving people to the Spanish border in Ceuta. It marked the first ruling in Morocco tied to the surge of more than 70,000 people crossing into the tiny Spanish North