Russia’s forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators said yesterday, also warning of possible crimes against humanity.

Armenia said yesterday it would appeal to the international community to help prevent “genocide” in Nagorno-Karabakh after criticising the role of Russian peacekeepers in the breakaway region in Azerbaijan.

An explosion at a coal mine in central Colombia has left 21 miners dead after 10 more bodies were found in the pit, President Gustavo Petro said yesterday.

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in a raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he will only meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan if Turkey withdraws troops from northern Syria, according to a Russian media interview published yesterday.

Nasa and the private aerospace company Axiom Space unveiled a prototype on Wednesday of the next-generation spacesuit that astronauts will wear on the next walk on the Moon.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday arrived in Niger for a rare visit to a country seen as a bastion of support for Western military operations in a jihadist-torn region where Russia is making inroads.

Skytrax, a UK-based airline and airport review and ranking site, polls travellers from all over the world about their experiences at airports, including check-in, departures, and everything in between

The move is the most dramatic in a series of recent steps by US officials and legislators who have raised fears that TikTok's US user data could be passed on to China's government. ByteDance-owned TikTok has more than 100 million US users

The doctor who exposed China's cover-up of the SARS epidemic in 2003 has died aged 91, his family confirmed on Wednesday.

"Five departure flights were delayed for around less than 30 minutes during the period"

North Korea fired a "long-range ballistic missile" Thursday, Seoul said, as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol headed to Tokyo for a summit to boost ties in the face of Pyongyang's growing aggression.

Swiss regulators said Credit Suisse can access liquidity from the central bank if needed, racing to assuage fears around the lender after it led a rout in European bank shares on Wednesday

Saudi Arabia could start making investments in Iran “very quickly” after they agreed to restore diplomatic ties, the Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan said yesterday, despite sweeping US sanctions against the Islamic republic.

The company behind the ChatGPT app that churns out essays, poems or computing code on command released Tuesday a long-awaited update of its artificial intelligence (AI) technology that it said would be safer and more accurate than its predecessor.

Flash floods killed at least 13 people living in tents and container housing set up across Turkey’s quake-hit region yesterday, piling more pressure on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of crunch elections.

Kyiv yesterday accused Russian leader Vladimir Putin of trying to widen the conflict in Ukraine after Washington said Russian fighter jets intercepted a US drone over the Black Sea, causing it to crash.

Hunger and malnutrition are rising sharply in Syria and more than half its population is short of food after 12 years of war, economic pressures and last month’s earthquake, the World Food Program said yesterday.

Malawi and Mozambique were racing to rescue survivors from Tropical Cyclone Freddy yesterday as the death toll rose above 270 from one of the most powerful storms recorded in the southern hemisphere.

Russian ambassador to the United States on Wednesday called on Washington to stop "hostile" flights near his country's border, after an American drone was intercepted by Russian fighters over the Black Sea