After Bangkok rejected what it called the "baseless accusation" it had used chemical weapons over Cambodia during the Southeast Asian neighbours' bloodiest military clashes in decades, a months-old ...

After Iran struck Israel with barrages of missiles on June 14 in retaliation for a massive onslaught against its nuclear and military facilities that killed top generals and nuclear scientists, ...

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A new law regulating property expropriation in South Africa came under immediate fire from US President Donald Trump last month when he accused the country’s government of illegally confiscating land ...

US President Donald Trump has sharply criticized his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in a rift between the two leaders as Kyiv remains locked in a three-year-old war started by a Russian ...

Elon Musk suggested Social Security data shows millions of improbably and impossibly old people collecting benefits, amounting to massive fraud in the retirement program. But the billionaire's claims ...

Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr and other prominent conservatives are sharing a video that claims to show E! News reporting that the US's humanitarian agency paid millions of dollars to celebrities ...

Crisis hotlines reported an uptick in calls after US President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 race for the White House, but social media posts sharing supposed World Health Organization (WHO) data ...

A video ricocheting across X appears to show Joe Biden cursing his critics after he announced he would not seek reelection and endorsed Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination. But a meme account ...

Amid fears of bird flu spreading to other species, social media posts and articles claim the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded University of Wisconsin research to make the virus transmissible to ...

Nearly a year after censorship claims first surfaced online over a pulled preprint study, social media posts allege the researchers were recently vindicated as a new version linking Covid-19 vaccines ...

Scientists predict recent bleaching at Australia's Great Barrier Reef will be the worst on record, but skeptics online dismiss the damage by claiming coral populations are at a record high. This is ...