Fighting raged in Sudan yesterday, despite rival forces agreeing to extend a truce aimed to stem nearly two weeks of warfare that has killed hundreds and caused widespread destruction.

A US-bound oil tanker seized by Iran off the coast of Oman was carrying 24 Indian crew, the vessel’s operator said yesterday, adding it was working to secure their release.

Coastguards have retrieved 41 bodies from Tunisian waters, a national guard official said yesterday, raising the number of victims of migrant shipwrecks off the country’s coast to 210 in 10 days.

India and Russia agreed to strengthen their defence partnership in talks between their defence ministers on Friday, the Indian government said, amid worries in New Delhi that the war in Ukraine was hurting its own military supplies from Moscow..Rajnath Singh and Sergei Shoigu held talks on

BBC chairman Richard Sharp on Friday announced his resignation after an inquiry found he had breached rules for failing to declare his involvement in arranging a loan for then prime minister Boris Johnson.

One of the world's oldest newspapers still in print, Austria's Wiener Zeitung, will primarily move online, after a decision Thursday by the country's parliament.

The early-morning attacks were carried out as Kyiv prepares to launch a counteroffensive to try to retake Russian-occupied territory

Two soldiers were declared dead at the scene of the crash near Healy, Alaska, while a third died en route to the hospital, the 11th Airborne Division said in a statement

The United States added new sanctions on Russia's FSB intelligence agency and Iran's Revolutionary Guard yesterday for taking "hostage" Americans like a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia last month

Stranded Bangladeshis in conflict-ridden Sudan have been requested to contact the hotline numbers of Bangladesh embassy in Sudan for evacuation

The United States added new sanctions on Russia’s FSB intelligence agency and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard yesterday for taking “hostage” Americans like a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia last month.

A Russian court yesterday fined the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, two million roubles ($24,510) for not deleting what it said was “banned content” related to the Russian military, Interfax reported.

Joe Biden has addressed the elephant in the room of his 2024 re-election bid: the fact that he is already the oldest ever president and would be 86 when he stepped down if he wins.

US President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk Yeol warned North Korea it would face a nuclear response and the “end” of the leadership there if Pyongyang uses its own arsenal.

The Kremlin yesterday said it welcomed any attempt to end the Ukrainian conflict, on Moscow’s terms, a day after the leaders of China and Ukraine had their first call since the offensive.

A devastating drought that has struck the Horn of Africa could not have occurred without global warming, according to a new report released yesterday from an international team of climate scientists.

Five more world leaders, including US President Joseph R Biden, today congratulated President Mohammed Shahabuddin on his assumption of the exalted office as the President of the Republic of Bangladesh

Defence Ministers of India and China today held talks in New Delhi as the two leaders had “frank” discussions about the lingering border row in eastern Ladakh

Longtime US talk show host Jerry Springer, whose program became a symbol of low brow television with its on-air fights, swearing and infidelity revelations, has died at the age of 79, US media reported Thursday.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif secured a vote of confidence from the National Assembly on Thursday, with 180 lawmakers reposing "full confidence" in his leadership as the premier