An explosion near the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Saturday hit a two-storey dwelling, injuring 20 people including five children, and rescuers pulled residents out from under the rubble, the regional governor said

The UN Security Council on Friday called on warring factions in Sudan to cease hostilities, as fighting continued in the capital Khartoum after the collapse of talks to maintain a ceasefire and ease a humanitarian crisis.

Tunisian President Kais Saied yesterday suggested raising taxes on richer people could be an alternative to socially painful reforms as a means to secure an international financial rescue package.

Ukraine is ready to launch its long-awaited counteroffensive to recapture Russian-occupied territory, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview published Friday.

Heavy rain across parts of Japan has killed one person, left three missing and injured dozens more, authorities said yesterday, with thousands of residents issued evacuation warnings.

Prominent Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer Jibran Nasir returned home on Friday, a day after his abduction by unidentified armed men in the southern city of Karachi, which prompted widespread outcry in the country.

Russia warned the United States yesterday it should stop brandishing ultimatums over the collapse of arms control agreements, saying Moscow would only return to a nuclear arms reduction treaty if Washington abandons its hostile stance.

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in yesterday for a third term as president, promising to serve “impartially” after winning a historic runoff election to extend his two-decade rule.

After a rocky start to a week of negotiations, around 170 countries agreed to develop a first draft by November of what could become the first global treaty to curb plastic pollution by the end of next year.

CIA director William Burns visited China last month for talks with Chinese counterparts, two US officials said on Friday as Washington seeks to boost communications with Beijing.

A war over Taiwan would be “devastating” and affect the global economy “in ways we cannot imagine,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has warned, as he underlined US support for the island democracy.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited the site of the horrific triple train accident site in Odisha state, met the injured in hospitals and assured that those responsible for the incident will be punished severely

It was a lucky escape for three Bangladeshis, including a couple from Gopalganj, who came out unscathed from the deadly train accident in India’s Odisha state

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin rebuked China on Saturday for refusing to hold military talks, leaving the superpowers deadlocked over Taiwan and territorial disputes in the South China Sea

OPEC and its allies are discussing deepening oil production cuts, possibly by as much as 1 million barrels per day, three sources told Reuters on Friday as oil prices fell towards $70 per barrel and market analysts spoke of a new supply glut.

At least 288 people have died in India's worst rail accident in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in the east of the country

With hundreds killed and more injured in a three-train collision in India, AFP looks back on some of the worst rail disasters of the last 10 years

A mass of mangled train coaches piled atop one another and profusely-bleeding passengers writhing in pain and shrieking for help — the site of the triple train accident site near Balasore in the eastern Indian state of Odisha painted a grisly picture

Iranian security forces opened fire on a protest sparked by the death of a student recently released from custody, rights groups and monitors said yesterday, with several people reported wounded.

US congressional leaders yesterday invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address a joint meeting of the House of Representatives and Senate on June 22, one of the highest honors Washington affords to foreign dignitaries.