Extreme weather killed at least 60 people in northern China over the past week, with 31 deaths in an elderly care home in Beijing’s hilly Miyun district in one of the deadliest floods to have hit the Chinese capital in years.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday told US President Donald Trump to remember that Moscow possessed Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities of last resort after Trump told Medvedev to “watch his words”.
Countries across Pacific rim lifted tsunami warnings earlier yesterday, allowing millions of evacuees to return home.
President Donald Trump ordered massive tariffs on Brazil Wednesday and sanctions against the judge overseeing a trial of his far-right ally Jair Bolsonaro, who is accused of attempting a coup in Latin America’s biggest economy.
Palestinians in the village of Susiya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank thought life could not get worse as Jewish settlers were attacking them repeatedly and ripping apart their precious olive groves.
The opposition leader in Pakistan’s parliament was among more than 100 people convicted yesterday over nationwide protests in support of Imran Khan in 2023, his party said.
An Indian court yesterday acquitted a firebrand Hindu nationalist nun and former lawmaker, and six others accused of participating in a deadly bombing near a mosque in 2008.
Cambodia yesterday accused Thailand of detaining 20 of its soldiers and killing another in post-ceasefire incidents, as a fragile peace held for a third day along their disputed border.
Indian opposition parties yesterday criticised the government, describing US President Donald Trump’s threat of a 25 percent tariff as a diplomatic failure for New Delhi, while the rupee currency tumbled and equity indexes slid in response to the news.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday urged his allies to bring about “regime change” in Russia, hours after a Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv killed eight people including a six-year-old boy.
The United States said Thursday it would deny visas to Palestinian Authority officials, accusing the body which governs parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank of seeking to "internationalize" the situation
The UN hailed Wednesday a “decisive shift” in the approach to helping surging numbers of displaced people, after a summit ended with
Israeli warplanes attacked an arms plant in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip early yesterday, after Palestinian militants in the enclave
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said “nobody knows” what causes climate change, seeming to cast doubt over whether global
A state of emergency was declared in Australia’s most populated region yesterday as an unprecedented heatwave fanned out-of-control bushfires, destroying homes and smothering huge areas with a toxic smoke.
A top Chinese university has removed references to “freedom of thought” from its charter, triggering a rare act of student defiance, while two other institutions added language stressing fealty to President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday put Britain’s departure from the EU at the top of the agenda, as Queen Elizabeth II read out his plans for government in a parliamentary ceremony following a sweeping election win.
Three small explosions went off in a southern Rakhine town in Myanmar yesterday just before civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi landed there in a rare visit to the conflict-ridden state, a local official said.
A Philippine court yesterday found the bosses of an influential political clan guilty of masterminding a 2009 massacre of 57 people, a ruling cheered as a partial victory for justice and a challenge to the country’s notorious culture of impunity.
India leads the world in pollution-linked deaths followed by China and Nigeria, according to a report published Wednesday that estimated the global impact of contaminants in the air, water and workplace.
Former prime minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune was sworn in as the new president of protest-hit Algeria yesterday, a week after winning a
