Europe’s top rights body yesterday blasted the “inhuman” treatment of migrants who were brutally turned away at its borders, especially the EU’s external frontier.

Three months after leaving for the United States in the final hours of his term, Brazil’s ex-president Jair Bolsonaro returned home yesterday to re-enter politics -- complicating life for his successor and nemesis, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen yesterday warned Beijing that its stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine would determine Chinese-EU ties but said Europe was not looking to “decouple” from China.

Russia on Thursday charged an American correspondent for the Wall Street Journal with spying, in a case certain to escalate Moscow's diplomatic feud with Washington over the war in Ukraine and likely to further isolate Russia

According to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, eleven bodies have been retrieved so far

Four policemen were killed by a roadside bomb as they scrambled to protect a police station under siege by Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday

At least 31 people died and 230 were rescued after a fire engulfed a ferry in the southern Philippines, authorities said Thursday.

In the cellar of a Kyiv kindergarten decorated with bunting and wall paintings of doughnuts and cats, dozens of children are taking shelter during an air raid.

Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society and humanity.

The Kremlin said yesterday that Russia’s confrontation with hostile states and what it called a “hybrid war” being waged against it by the West would last a long time.

President Joe Biden yesterday urged unity among democracies in the face of Russia and China as he committed nearly $700 million to halt global democratic backsliding and forged an alliance against surveillance technology.

Saudi Arabia has agreed to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as a “dialogue partner”, state media reported yesterday, the latest indication of closer political ties with China.

The UN General Assembly yesterday adopted by consensus and to cheers a landmark resolution calling for the world body’s top court to lay out nations’ legal obligations in combatting climate change.

Twitter has temporarily restricted Marjorie Taylor Greene's congressional account after the US lawmaker tweeted a graphic that referred to a "Trans Day of Vengeance" following the school shooting in Nashville.

A fire believed to have been started by migrants protesting against their deportation killed at least 38 people at a Mexican immigration detention center near the US border, authorities said Tuesday, prompting demands for justice.

Scientists have discovered water inside tiny beads of glass scattered across the Moon, suggesting that one day it could be extracted and used by the “explorers of tomorrow”.

Ukraine yesterday said it had shot down a dozen Russian drones over the capital Kyiv, adding that there had been no casualties as a result of Moscow’s latest aerial barrage.

Two people died yesterday following a knife attack at an Islamic centre in the Portuguese capital Lisbon that wounded several others, police said.

Cancer-causing chemical compounds called nitrosamines have been detected in a range of everyday foods and could pose a health risk to consumers, the European Food Safety Agency warned yesterday.

At least eight Bangladeshi umrah pilgrims died while 18 others were injured in a bus crash in Saudi Arabia, according to a press release issued by the foreign ministry