International News from Friday, November 15th, 2024

US President-elect Donald Trump has selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental activist who has spread misinformation on vaccines, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the United States' top health agency.

Fire ripped through a retirement home in the town of Villafranca del Ebro in northern Spain early on Friday, killing at least 10 people, the regional government of Aragon said.

Billionaire Elon Musk, who is an adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump, met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two Iranian officials.

Twelve members of Lebanon's Civil Defense were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting their centre in Douris, Baalbek on Thursday evening, the governor of Baalbek-Hermel, Bachir Khodr, said. 

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's coalition, the National People's Power (NPP), was set to win a majority in a snap general election, results from the Indian Ocean island's poll body showed on Friday.

The city of Lahore in Pakistan ranked the world's most polluted in winter's annual scourge across the region, while India's New Delhi reached the "severe" category, causing flight delays and cancellations. 

The US ambassador to Lebanon submitted a draft truce proposal to Lebanon's speaker of parliament Nabih Berri on Thursday to halt fighting between armed group Hezbollah and Israel, two political sources told Reuters, without revealing details.

China said on Friday the Philippines had sent supplies to a beached warship on Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed atoll in the South China Sea that has been a key point of heightened tensions between the countries.