Ukraine yesterday battled Russian troops trying to pierce its lines in the east and northeast before Kyiv takes delivery of tanks from its Western allies, saying the fighting showed it needed more weapons to repel the invaders.

The global chemical weapons watchdog yesterday blamed Syria for a 2018 chlorine attack that killed 43 people, in a long-awaited report on a case that sparked tensions between Damascus and the West.

Recently deceased ex-pope Benedict described years of persistent sleeping troubles as the “main reason” behind his shock decision to step down in 2013, according to a German media report yesterday.

A gunman stormed Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran yesterday, killing the mission’s head of security in an attack Iran said was

Azerbaijan on Friday said it was evacuating staff from its embassy in Tehran, blaming Iran for a "terrorist" attack in which the head of security was killed and two guards wounded.

Israeli jets struck Gaza overnight on Friday in retaliation for two rockets fired by Palestinian, further escalating tensions after one of the worst days of violence in the occupied West Bank in years.

Teacher Oleksandr Pogoryelov occasionally strolls up the sloping road to the school in his village in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine where he taught for more than two decades.

US authorities have charged five former police officers with murder over the fatal beating of a Black man in Memphis, as the southern city braced for possible civil unrest and President Joe Biden urged demonstrators to protest peacefully.

Egypt and India yesterday announced a "strategic partnership" to increase trade by billions of dollars and strengthen diplomatic ties, as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi concluded a visit to New Delhi.

More than 200 people protested outside Lebanon’s justice palace yesterday over efforts to derail an investigation into the deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion, as top judges cancelled a meeting to discuss the fate of the inquiry.

Social networking giant Meta announced Tuesday that it would soon reinstate former US president Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram with “new guardrails,” two years after he was banned over the 2021 assault on the Capitol.

Ukraine will now push for Western fourth generation fighter jets such as the US F-16 after securing supplies of main battle tanks, an adviser to Ukraine’s defence minister said.

Egypt yesterday unveiled a gold-laced mummy and four tombs, including of an ancient king’s “secret keeper”, discovered in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo.

European Union migration ministers were set to meet yesterday to discuss visa restrictions and better coordination inside the bloc to be able to send more people with no right to asylum in Europe back to their home countries.

A blistering wave of Russian strikes targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure killed 11 people yesterday, a day after Germany and the United States pledged heavy tanks for Kyiv.

Thousands of Australians yesterday marked the country’s national day celebrations with rallies in support of Indigenous people, many of whom describe the anniversary of the day a British fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour as “Invasion Day”.

Israeli commandos killed seven gunmen and two civilians in a raid on a flashpoint town in the occupied West Bank yesterday, Palestinian officials said, stirring fear of further flare-ups after the largest single death toll in years of fighting.

Black boxes recovered from a fatal Nepal plane crash will be analysed in Singapore at the request of the investigation authorities in Nepal, said Singapore’s Transport Ministry in a statement on Thursday.

The United States on Wednesday said it is restricting entry to people "believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining democracy in Nigeria" and their family members ahead of that country's elections this year.

An Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank's Jenin refugee camp Thursday killed nine Palestinians including an elderly woman, Palestinian officials said, also accusing the forces of using tear gas inside a hospital children's ward.