Iran executed seven men in two prisons outside Tehran on drugs and rape charges yesterday, a rights group said, accelerating what activists describe as a hanging spree over the past two weeks.

France’s top administrative court yesterday ordered the government for a second time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within a year, in a case brought by a town threatened by rising sea levels.

Fifteen children drowned and 25 others were missing when their overloaded boat capsized in a river in northwest Nigeria, a local official said yesterday.

The question of how and when people first came to the Americas has long intrigued scientists.

US President Joe Biden will host Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi for an official state visit on June 22, the White House said yesterday. “President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will host Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Republic of India for an

Israel and Gaza militants traded cross-border fire yesterday, renewing deadly violence a day after Israeli strikes killed 15 people in the Palestinian territory.

A New York jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing and defaming an American former magazine columnist and ordered the ex-president to pay her $5 million in damages.

A police officer shot dead two people participating in an annual pilgrimage to a renowned Tunisian synagogue as well as two members of the security services before he was killed on Tuesday, the interior ministry said

Donald Trump sexually abused magazine writer E Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her by branding her a liar, jurors decided on Tuesday, dealing the former US president a legal setback as he campaigns to retake office in 2024.

Southeast Asian nations are at a “crossroad”, a senior Indonesian minister warned yesterday, as escalating violence in junta-controlled Myanmar loomed over a regional summit.

President Vladimir Putin yesterday vowed Russia’s military would be victorious in Ukraine and blamed Western countries for the conflict, comparing the fighting to World War II during a military parade on Red Square.

Donald Trump sexually abused magazine writer E Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her by branding her a liar, jurors decided on Tuesday, dealing the former US president a legal setback as he campaigns to retake office in 2024.

The United States is girding for the arrival of thousands of migrants this week, with the expiry of pandemic-era rules that have made claiming asylum at the border all but impossible.

Residents of Sudan’s capital reported air strikes overnight and sporadic gun battles yesterday morning amid what they call a surge in looting, with no sign of progress in ceasefire talks taking place in Saudi Arabia.

The United States on Monday criticised the Arab League decision to readmit Syria, saying that President Bashar al-Assad does not deserve normalization after his country’s brutal civil war.

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary force fighting in eastern Ukraine said today he had been told he and his men would be regarded as traitors if they abandoned their positions in the city of Bakhmut

Heavy fighting in Sudan has displaced 700,000 people within the country since the middle of April, the United Nations said on Tuesday, adding the figure had doubled in a week.

'In the month of April alone, more than 600 people were killed in a new wave of extreme violence that hit several districts across the capital," said the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

The Associated Press won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the distinguished public service award, for its coverage of the war in Ukraine, while the New York Times earned the international reporting honour for its stories about the Russian invasion.

China expelled a diplomat from Canada's consulate in Shanghai on Tuesday in retaliation for Canada expelling a Chinese diplomat a day earlier.