Tracking Syrian rebels' lightning offensive as they approach key city

Supplied Afghans wait to attempt to cross into Turkey, in a still from a video sent to the BBC by a people smuggler The first time Azaan made the jump across the wall, he broke his arm. Braving the 20ft (6m) drop into a wide trench below is, for many Afghans, the only way to…

Six people were killed as supporters of imprisoned former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan clashed with security forces in Islamabad on Tuesday. Thousands of security personnel have been deployed to central Islamabad to control the protests. More than 4,000 Khan supporters have been arrested, with the government also suspending mobile and internet services, blocking major…

Getty Images India has nearly a billion eligible voters India, the world’s largest democracy, is almost always in election mode. With 28 states, eight union territories and nearly a billion eligible voters, polls are a constant feature of the nation’s political landscape. For years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has championed the…

This photograph shows a logo of American multinational corporation McKinsey & Company on the first day of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 26, 2024.  Pau Barrena | Afp | Getty Images A subsidiary of top global consulting firm McKinsey & Company agreed to pay nearly…

A 26-year-old man has been arrested in connection with last week’s fatal shooting in New York City of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Luigi Mangione, 26, was taken into custody at a McDonald’s in the town of Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 280 miles (450km) west of New York City on Monday after a customer at the fast-food…

WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of wealthy Americans are not complying with recently revamped Internal Revenue Service efforts to get them to file tax returns, according to data obtained exclusively by CNBC. A quirk in federal tax law may be incentivizing wealthy people who want to avoid paying taxes to simply not file their returns….