At least 74 people were killed in Nigeria's Benue state in two separate attacks by gunmen this week, local officials and police said on Saturday, the latest clashes in an area where violence between pastoralists and farmers is common.

Russian Federal Security Service investigators have formally charged Evan Gershkovich with espionage but the Wall Street Journal reporter denied the charges and said he was working as a journalist, domestic news agencies said on Friday..Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on March

In a further attempt to rein in increasing numbers of women defying the compulsory dress code, Iranian authorities are installing cameras in public places and thoroughfares to identify and penalise unveiled women, the police announced on Saturday

Eighteen countries, including Bangladesh and India, have agreed on a regional strategy on accelerating rail digital transformation in a bid to boost train connectivity among them under the framework of Trans-Asian Rail Network spanning Asia and Europe

An Italian tourist was killed and five other tourists were wounded in a Tel Aviv car ramming attack on Friday, Israeli and Italian officials said

China launched military drills around Taiwan on Saturday, in what it called a "stern warning" to the self-ruled island's government following a meeting between its president and the US House speaker

"A national defence science research institute in the DPRK carried out a test of underwater strategic weapon system from April 4 to 7"

Israel’s military hit sites in Lebanon and Gaza early yesterday, in retaliation for rocket attacks it blamed on the Islamist group Hamas, as tensions following police raids this week on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem threatened to spiral out of control.

A Falcon 9 rocket successfully blasted off from Florida into space yesterday, carrying a new Nasa device that can track air pollution over North America down to the neighbourhood level.

An Iranian court has ordered the execution of a man accused of killing seven people during nationwide protests last year, the judiciary said yesterday.

Russian forces have very likely seized the centre of the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and are threatening a key supply route for Ukrainian forces to the west, British intelligence said yesterday.

More than 30 people were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province earlier this week in attacks attributed to a rebel group affiliated with the Islamic State jihadist group, the United Nations said Thursday.

Tunisia’s coastguard said yesterday it had intercepted over 14,000 migrants trying to reach Europe from January to March, more than five times the number of those who attempted the trip in the first quarter of 2022.

A court in junta-ruled Myanmar jailed a high-profile Christian pastor for six years yesterday on charges of terrorism and illegal assembly, his lawyer said.

The White House on Thursday released a long-awaited review of the US exit from Afghanistan, laying blame on Donald Trump and a huge intelligence failure, but defending overall US conduct of the traumatic operation.

The US state department yesterday said it hopes that the Bangladesh government will examine the allegations against Rab contained in an article and video published by German news organisation Deutsche Welle (DW). .Vedant Patel, principal deputy spokesperson at the US Department of State, w

The White House has released a long-awaited review of the US exit from Afghanistan, laying blame on Donald Trump and a huge intelligence failure, but defending overall US conduct of the traumatic operation..The classified review was sent to Congress, where the Republican majority in the Ho

Top diplomats from Middle East rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia met in Beijing yesterday, pledging to work together to bring “security and stability” to their turbulent region following a surprise China-brokered deal.

The sarcophagus of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II was unveiled to reporters in Paris yesterday following its rare journey outside of Egypt.

Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have handed over four women and 10 children to a Canadian delegation in readiness for their repatriation, a Kurdish official said.