Ten people were shot dead in Indonesia’s restive eastern province Papua yesterday in an ambush police attributed to rebels.

Russia has ordered its forces in Ukraine to step up operations, its defence ministry said yesterday, as rockets and missiles pounded the country in the latest of a series of bombardments that Kyiv says have killed dozens of people in recent days.

Israel yesterday hit the Gaza Strip before dawn in what it said was a retaliatory strike for rocket fire from the Palestinian territory controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas.

The United States believes that Russian officials visited an airfield in Iran recently to view attack-capable drones, US national security advisor Jake Sullivan said yesterday.

Wildfires raged in southwestern France and Spain on Saturday, forcing thousands of people to be evacuated from their homes as blistering summer temperatures put authorities on alert in parts of Europe.

Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman has told US President Joe Biden that Saudi Arabia has acted to prevent a repeat of mistakes such as the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and that the United States had also made mistakes, especially in Iraq, a Saudi official said.

US President Joe Biden said on Friday he told Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman he held him responsible for the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, shortly after exchanging a fist bump with the kingdom's de facto ruler.

Canadian police confirmed on Friday that a man shot dead in British Columbia on Thursday was Ripudaman Singh Malik, a Sikh businessman acquitted in connection with the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people.

The House has voted to restore abortion rights nationwide in Democrats’ first legislative response to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision overturning Roe v. Wade. 

Britain’s foreign office yesterday summoned Russian Ambassador Andrei Kelin to express “deep concern” over reports of the death of a British aid worker. “I am

The United States yesterday said it would resume flights to the International Space Station with Russia, despite its attempts to isolate Moscow over the

Hundreds more people were evacuated from their homes as wildfires blistered land in France, Spain and Portugal yesterday, while officials in Europe issued health warnings for the heatwave in the coming days.

The five remaining contenders to be Britain’s next prime minister were set to go head to head in the first of three televised debates yesterday, hoping a good performance will boost their chances in a battle that so far has no clear frontrunner.

US President Joe Biden yesterday promised not to give up efforts to end the decades-long Israeli Palestinian conflict, though he offered no new proposals to restart the stalled political dialogue between the two sides.

Conflict and climate change in West Africa’s Sahel region have prompted nearly five million to flee their homes, the UN’s refugee agency says.

Western finance chiefs condemned Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine at G20 talks in Indonesia Friday, accusing Russia of sending a “shockwave” through the world economy and its technocrats of complicity in the war’s alleged atrocities.

Joe Biden began a visit to Saudi Arabia on Friday by giving Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a fist bump and shaking hands with King Salman as Washington looks to reset its relationship with a country that the U.S. president once pledged to make a "pariah" on the global stage.

The US State Department’s latest human rights report has validated my long-held position – that regardless of all its posturing, Washington’s principal allies in Muslim-majority countries are the foot soldiers of fundamentalist outfits.

Saudi Arabia announced Friday it was lifting restrictions on "all carriers" using its airspace, an apparent gesture of openness towards Israel ahead of US President Joe Biden's arrival.

US President Joe Biden says the death of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was an “enormous loss to the essential work of sharing with the world the story of the Palestinian people.”