International from Thursday, January 16th, 2025

A student killed a female teacher and classmate with a knife and injured another classmate at a high school in northern Slovakia on Thursday.

Blue Origin's giant New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida early Thursday morning on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth's orbit for Jeff Bezos' space company as it aims to rival SpaceX in the satellite launch business.

India on Thursday became the fourth nation in the world to achieve space docking, a technological milestone that underscores its ambitions to expand its share in the rapidly growing $400 billion global space market.

President Joe Biden capped a half-century political career on Wednesday with a final Oval Office speech as he hopes to seal a legacy overshadowed by Democrats' failure to stop Donald Trump from returning to the White House.

Israel intensified strikes on Gaza, with at least 70 people killed overnight, hours after a ceasefire and hostage release deal was announced, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accusing Hamas, on Thursday, of reneging on some of the agreements.

Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani announced that the joint mediation efforts of Qatar, Egypt and the United States secured a Gaza ceasefire and prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel.