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Last week's tick upward broke a six-week streak of falling jobless claims.

Pashinyan wants to extend his leadership, but after losing a war to Azerbaijan last year, he faces a tough challenge.

Sherpa villages in the lap of Mount Everest are reeling from COVID-19 as climbing season ends on world's highest peak.

Aid organisations are calling on the Biden administration to end Title 42 expulsions and restore asylum at border.

The policeman faces reckless manslaughter charges and if convicted could get up to 12 years in prison.

Families coping with miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss must often pay thousands of dollars in medical bills.

The US president has been telling Europe and the world that ‘America is back’ - but do they believe it?

The 20-time Grand Slam champion pulls out of Wimbledon and the Tokyo Olympics 'after listening to my body'.

COVID Women Help is an initiative that helps widowed women financially and professionally.

The deceased are thought to be illegal miners whose bodies were discovered near an abandoned mine in Orkney town.

Global conflicts declined over past year but uncertainty rose due to the pandemic, says a new report.

Israel bans more than 1,000 'dual-usage' construction materials leaving Palestinians to repurpose rubble for rebuilding.

Health ministry last month dropped several popular drugs from its clinical protocol, sparking debate and confusion.

Some analysts predict new leader will carry out his agenda of expanding illegal Israeli settlements more vigorously.

Message to Naftali Bennett from King Mohammed VI comes as the leader of Hamas visits Morocco for meetings.

A series of construction defects in the overpass caused the accident that left 26 people dead, a probe has found.

China has launched its first crewed space mission in five years, sending three astronauts to a new space station.

Protesters block roads, burn tyres and clash with police in Ettadhamen and Intilaka neighbourhoods of Tunis.

For five decades, the US government has wreaked havoc both at home and abroad with its violent 'war on drugs'.

Visa services say 'unprecedented surge' in people looking to immigrate to nations with better living conditions.

Different people with different experiences, united in dedication to democratic freedom and fear of going back 'home'.

Cheap renewables offer the key to universal electricity access in Africa.

Four Greenlanders deeply disagree on the direction for their country’s future, but all fight for a better Greenland.

More than 6,000 people have been detained since the coup, and journalists are one of many groups being targeted.

Construction has angered villagers who allege it is illegal, and dangerous to their health and prosperity.

The blaze at Kin Ma, a village of about 800 people, left an estimated 200 homes reduced into piles of ash and bricks.

Amnesty International and HRW say indefinite detention of immigrants in Canada causing widespread distress and trauma.

Ransomware hackers have become world's top cybersecurity threat.

In China's longest ever human spaceflight mission, crew to spend three months aboard Heavenly Harmony space station.

Hundreds of officers search building after five arrested under security law, accused of 'collusion with foreign forces'.

Congress sends bill to President Biden making June 19 a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the US.

Inmates must have choice of death by firing squad, court rules, as US states seek alternatives to lethal injection.

Trump-era curbs made it harder for asylum seekers fleeing domestic or gang violence to get protection in US.

Tim Cook criticised the proposed Digital Markets Act, saying it threatens the security and privacy of iPhones.

Observers accuse President Daniel Ortega of targeting opposition leaders and other figures before November elections.

Arjuna Capital has requested a report on the 'effectiveness of the company’s workplace sexual harassment policies'.

The US Fed's latest projections have inflation rising to 3.4 percent in 2021, a full point higher than March's estimate.

PM hopeful about June 21 vote held despite fighting in Tigray and instability elsewhere, as well as opposition boycotts.

Ramos has struggled with injuries this season and played in only five matches this year.

El Salvador's finance minister said that he had clarified with IMF that the country had no plans to abandon the dollar.

COVID-19 infections in China cause delivery delays and shortages around the world.

Human rights, nuclear weapons control, de-escalating conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and Ukraine top Biden agenda.

Medals will still be awarded, though Republican no votes draw criticism from across political aisle.

Here is what you need to know about the efficacy of coronavirus vaccines against the variant first identified in India.

Former president's return seen as test for country and population that still has 2011 bloody conflict fresh in memory.

The 1,098-carat diamond is the biggest stone of gem quality to be found in the history of the Debswana company.

High lumber prices and shortages of material and labour have builders struggling to boost the production of new homes.

Defence ministry says two men drove a Toyota truck onto military base in city of Cucuta, near border with Venezuela.

The former US president has laid low since leaving office but will resume travel - and rallies - later in June.