New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he had a productive meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, discussing issues including housing and student detentions by federal immigration authorities.

The United States authorised the departure of non-emergency embassy staff and their families from Israel yesterday, as it threatened strikes on Iran and pressed its biggest military build-up in the Middle East in decades.

The UN rights chief yesterday voiced alarm at the normalisation of the use of force to resolve disputes, saying armed conflicts had almost doubled since 2010.

Pakistan bombed government targets in the Afghan capital Kabul and in Kandahar, where its Taliban leadership is based, officials from both countries said yesterday, with Pakistan’s defence minister calling the conflict “open war”.

Ukrainian missiles struck the Russian town of Belgorod near the border, inflicting serious damage on energy installations and disrupting power, water and heating, the regional governor said early yesterday.

Airstrikes, retaliation and the TTP factor expose the collapse of a once-calculated relationship between Islamabad and the Taliban

Kejriwal accuses Narendra Modi and Amit Shah of using a “political conspiracy”

WB shareholders previously scheduled to vote on Netflix agreement on March 20, which is now essentially moot

Washington had given them until Friday to agree to unconditional military use of its technology

Technical talks at UN's nuclear agency to begin in Vienna on Monday, says Iran Foreign Minister

Oman said yesterday that Iran and the United States expressed openness to new solutions as indirect talks between the two foes began in Geneva.

Islamabad denies claims

The FBI has fired at least half a dozen agents linked to a 2022 probe into President Donald Trump retaining documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence, US media reported on Wednesday, drawing anger from the association representing bureau personnel.

At least 7,667 people died or went missing last year on migration routes around the world, but the true death toll is likely higher, the UN’s migration agency reported yesterday.

The US and China have reached “stability” in their long-fractious relationship, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to the Asian power.

Cuban forces killed four exiles and wounded six others who sailed into Cuban waters aboard a Florida-registered speedboat on Wednesday and opened fire on a Cuban patrol, the Cuban government said at a time of heightened tensions with the United States.

The United Nations yesterday announced the approval of the first carbon credits under a global market aimed at reducing emissions, a mechanism that has faced scrutiny over greenwashing concerns.

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet said on Wednesday Phnom Penh wanted de-escalation and a peaceful resolution to its border conflict with Thailand, after Bangkok this week accused its neighbour of violating a December truce.

Moscow is in no hurry to reach a deal to end the war in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested in comments to state media yesterday.

Nigeria battling 16-year insurgency