India and Japan will work more closely on critical minerals to boost “resilience” in their supply chains, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday, as the two huge Asian economies look to cut dependence on top exporter China.

Public institutions in European Union countries are signing profitable contracts with Israeli companies despite Israel’s long track record of war crimes in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, data collected by Statewatch and revealed by Al Jazeera shows.

Mediators, Qatar and Pakistan, concluded separate meetings with US and Iranian negotiators in Doha, Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) said yesterday, adding that “positive progress” was made on issues related to the MoU and the Lake Lucerne Summit.

Two people were arrested Wednesday after they climbed up an antenna on the top of the Empire State Building in New York -- and possibly got engaged at the same time.

Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in the early hours yesterday, killing at least 21 people and damaging around 130 buildings in one of the biggest attacks of the war.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday formally apologised for the forced adoption of an estimated 185,000 babies born to unmarried mothers in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976, calling it “a stain on our history”.

The Trump administration will intensify its fight against so-called birth tourism, the US attorney general said Wednesday, a day after a Supreme Court ruling upholding birthright citizenship.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused more than two million military casualties, with Moscow’s forces bearing the brunt of the losses, according to a study published Wednesday by a US think tank.

President Donald Trump wants a peace deal to end the "senseless killing" in Ukraine, a US official said Thursday after a massive Russian barrage on Kyiv killed at least 21 people

The World Health Organization on Thursday declared an end to the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship which sparked international alarm, after the last person left quarantine

Latin America accounted for 67 percent of the submissions, with Colombia alone representing 25.9 percent of the total

Syrian state TV says a bomb had been planted at the cafe

The group of 35 monks and five lay followers were walking along a roadside in the northeastern Mukdahan province during a pilgrimage when the incident occurred

Myanmar's deposed leader is under house arrest in the capital Naypyidaw, according to her captors, but exactly where is hard to say in a city experts describe as purpose-built to guard its closed-ranks rulers' secrets

The quake was at a depth of 216.7 km (134.65 miles), USGS said.

Thousands more were injured and left homeless by the temblors, Rodriguez said in an address on state television.

Sources familiar with the discussions said negotiators for the two countries spent two days in Doha

A senior Justice Department official, Colin McDonald, told employees in a memo that people who come to the United States under "false pretenses" to give birth and secure citizenship for their child could be criminally charged under laws barring visa fraud, money laundering, identity theft and wire fraud.

A new ethnic unity law came into effect in China yesterday, despite warnings from Taiwan, the United Nations and rights groups that it could threaten freedoms, especially for minorities.

UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday of the “increasingly precarious” situation of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees known as UNRWA, saying that millions of people’s livelihoods were at risk.