Israel’s occupation and discrimination against Palestinians are the main causes of the endless cycles of violence, UN investigators said yesterday, prompting angry Israeli protests.

Heavy fighting in Sudan’s west and south has killed at least 27 people and left dozens wounded, residents said yesterday, with the United Nations envoy saying he was “deeply concerned.

Indonesia and Malaysia have both summoned India’s envoys in their countries over “derogatory” remarks made about the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) by two officials with the South Asian nation’s ruling party, their foreign ministries said yesterday.

Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani almost certainly did not flee Kabul as it fell to the Taliban with millions of dollars in stolen cash, a US government watchdog’s report said Monday.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday lauded the loyalty of his cabinet and vowed to “get on with the job” after surviving a confidence vote of his Conservative MPs that has still left him severely weakened.

The World Bank on Tuesday (June 7) slashed its global growth forecast by nearly a third to 2.9 per cent for 2022, warning that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has compounded the damage from the Covid-19 pandemic, and many countries now faced recession.

The end of end of the war and restoration of peace in Ukraine can only take place at the negotiation table, and not by focusing on the military gains, said international relations analysts and diplomats today.

The Russian parliament has passed a set of laws allowing Moscow not to comply with the top European human rights court’s rulings.

New York's governor raised the age for buying a semiautomatic rifle from 18 to 21 Monday as she tightened gun laws following the racist massacre at a supermarket in Buffalo.

The Dominican Republic's environment minister, Orlando Jorge Mera, was shot dead in his office on Monday, authorities said.

A British journalist and an Indigenous affairs expert are missing in a remote part of Brazil’s Amazon region, a local Indigenous association said Monday. The area has been marked by violent conflicts between fishermen, poachers and government agents.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has survived a no-confidence vote, securing enough support in his party to remain in office despite a rebellion that will likely weaken him as a leader and casts a shadow over his future.

The BBC reported on Monday that sources close to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson believed that he had won a vote of confidence among elected members of his Conservative Party.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a confidence vote yesterday but a rebellion by 148 of his 359 Conservative Party lawmakers dealt a serious blow to his authority.

Ukrainian and Russian troops fought street-by-street to win control of the industrial city of Severodonetsk yesterday in the pivotal battle of the Kremlin’s eastern Ukraine offensive.

At least 20 people have been killed in a new massacre in DR Congo’s eastern province of Ituri, a respected monitor said yesterday, adding that the notorious ADF militia were suspected.

Negotiators from almost 200 countries yesterday met in Germany for climate talks tasked with reigniting momentum on tackling global warming, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine overshadows the threat from rising emissions.

At least 160 British lawmakers from Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party had publicly indicated support for him ahead of a confidence vote over his leadership on Monday, a Reuters tally showed.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a no-confidence vote Monday that could oust him from power, as discontent with his rule finally threatens to topple a politician who has often seemed invincible despite many scandals.

Gunmen attacked a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria during mass on Sunday, killing at least 50 people including women and children, according to a hospital doctor and media reports.