Mexican authorities found 129 migrants packed into the back of a cargo truck, the National Institute of Migration said on Saturday

At least 11 people have been killed in Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul after an extra-tropical cyclone struck the region on Friday, according to the state's authorities

Three people, including two members of the military, were killed Saturday when their light aircraft crashed in a hilly region in the south of France, the army and regional prosecutor said

Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in China on Sunday on the highest-level trip by a US official in nearly five years, with the rival powers looking to lower the temperature after soaring tensions

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan arrived in Iran yesterday amid a rapprochement between the two Middle East arch-foes, Iranian state TV said.

Spanish charity Open Arms said it rescued 117 migrants yesterday crowded onto a precarious wooden boat from Libya in the latest such perilous crossing over the Mediterranean sea.

Mali’s interim military authorities on Friday asked for a United Nations peacekeeping force to leave “without delay”, citing a “crisis of confidence” between Malian authorities and the decade-long UN mission known as MINUSMA.

There has been no sign of improvement in the political situation in Myanmar since the 2021 coup, Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said on Friday following a meeting in Washington with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said he shared his counterpart’s pessimism.

Air strikes killed civilians and pummeled multiple parts of the Sudanese capital yesterday, residents said, as mediators pushed the warring factions towards a new ceasefire.

Militants linked to the Islamic State group massacred at least 37 people and abducted six others in western Uganda, the army said yesterday, in the country’s worst such attack in years.

Eight people have died in the third heatwave to hit Mexico since mid-April, the country’s health ministry said on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned there is a “serious danger” of NATO being drawn further into the Ukraine war if members of the alliance continue to supply military weaponry to Kyiv.

Air strikes killed civilians and pummeled multiple parts of the Sudanese capital today, residents said, as mediators pushed the warring factions towards a new ceasefire.

Militants linked to Islamic State killed 37 people and abducted six others in an attack on a school in western Uganda near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the military said today.

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that his deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, something he confirmed for the first time had already happened, was a reminder to the West that it could not inflict a strategic defeat on Russia

Seven soldiers were killed on Friday after their vehicle hit a landmine in Niger's southeast Diffa region, where jihadist groups are active, according to an army statement broadcast on state radio

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said Ukraine’s counteroffensive would fail as Kyiv’s troops sought to advance in several directions, including the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia.

The US Senate on Thursday narrowly confirmed civil rights lawyer Nusrat Choudhury to the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, making her the first Bangladeshi-American and female Muslim federal judge in the United States.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday the world is racing toward a climate change disaster, dismissing the current global response as woefully inadequate.

The number of migrant crossings through the central Mediterranean to the European Union “more than doubled” in 2023 compared with the same period last year, the EU’s Frontex agency said yesterday.