Sudan’s army chief is not ready to meet the enemy general he’s been at war with for eight weeks, a government official said yesterday after a regional bloc proposed a face-to-face encounter between the two.

Alarm over advancements in artificial intelligence must not obscure the “grave” harm already being done by digital platforms rife with misinformation, UN chief Antonio Guterres said Monday, as he proposed an international code of conduct.

More than 6,000 civilians were killed in Myanmar in the first 20 months after the February 2021 military coup, a report published today by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo said.."Our data shows that the human toll of the conflict is higher than previously reported, and while the junta

A Russian missile strike killed three people and wounded 32 in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, authorities said, as air attacks were reported in Kyiv and other cities

Former President Donald Trump arrived in Miami on Monday to face federal criminal charges, while a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found a vast majority of his fellow Republicans believe the case to be politically motivated

Scotland’s leader Humza Yousaf said yesterday he will not suspend the party membership of his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon, following her arrest as part of a police probe into the ruling party’s finances.

Iran yesterday said it has continued indirect negotiations with the Unites States through the Sultanate of Oman over its nuclear deal and a possible prisoner swap.

A British man was arrested in South Korea yesterday after he attempted to climb the country’s tallest skyscraper -- the fifth highest in the world -- without equipment, police said.

A bus carrying wedding guests overturned and killed 10 people in an “unimaginable” night-time crash as it travelled through a wine-growing area north of Sydney, police said yesterday, announcing a string of charges against the driver.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday lashed out at his predecessor Boris Johnson in a row over political honours for allies of the former premier.

Militants have attacked a camp for displaced persons in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 41 people, a local official said yesterday.

The injured mother of four Huitoto Indigenous children who survived a May 1 plane crash in Colombia told her kids to “get out of here” before she died four days after the crash.

Thailand’s prime ministerial frontrunner Pita Limjareonrat will be investigated over whether he was qualified to run in last month’s election, a top official said yesterday, in another setback as he battles to win backing for his premiership.

The number of operational nuclear weapons rose slightly in 2022 as countries implemented long-term force modernisation and expansion plans, a leading conflict think-tank said yesterday, warning that the world was entering a dangerous phase.

Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul and former Italian prime minister who transformed the nation’s politics with polarising policies and often alarmed his allies with his brazen remarks, died yesterday aged 86.

Ukraine said yesterday its troops had recaptured a fourth village from Russian forces in a cluster of settlements in the southeast, where its forces have at last claimed gains in its long-anticipated counteroffensive.

Canada and the Netherlands have taken Damascus to the International Court of Justice over allegations of torture, the tribunal said yesterday, in the first case at the UN’s top court over Syria’s brutal civil war.

The United States plans to rejoin Unesco from July this year, ending a lengthy dispute that saw Washington end its membership in 2018, the UN cultural agency announced yesterday.

Gender inequality has remained stagnant for a decade, according to research by the United Nations released yesterday, as cultural biases and pressures continue to hinder women’s empowerment and leave the world unlikely to meet the UN’s goal of gender parity by 2030.

King Charles III will become the first reigning British monarch in more than 30 years to take the salute from troops on horseback at the annual Trooping the Colour, Buckingham Palace announced yesterday.