India is preparing to evacuate thousands of people from low-lying areas along its western coast as a powerful cyclone is expected to make landfall

With fears growing of a “full-scale war” between Israel and the Palestinians, here is a look at the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The two territories

It took just days for decades-old tensions between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas to spiral out of control, causing deaths and chaos not just in Gaza but across the Jewish state.

India is preparing to evacuate thousands of people from low-lying areas along its western coast as a powerful cyclone is expected to make landfall on Tuesday morning in the state of Gujarat.

Pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets of Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta and other US cities on Saturday to demand an end to Israeli airstrikes over the Gaza Strip.

US President Joe Biden urged calm between Israel and Gaza on Saturday and affirmed his support for a two-state solution in his first phone call with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas since taking office, the official Palestinian news agency said.

Britain said it planned to treble tree planting rates over the next three years to help reach its target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, as part of efforts to fight climate change.

India will have 51.6 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine procured by the end of July this year, including the 18 crore doses already administered among people, the country’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said.

Myanmar's army battled local militia fighters in the northwestern town of Mindat on Saturday, residents said, to try to quell a rebellion that has sprung up to oppose the junta which seized power in the Southeast Asian country in February.

An Israeli air raid on a densely populated refugee camp in Gaza City killed at least 10 Palestinians from an extended family, mostly children, early Saturday in the deadliest single strike of the current battle with Gaza’s Hamas rulers.

Ongoing Israeli airstrikes have so far killed 126 Palestinians in Gaza, including 31 children and 20 women, 950 people have been injured, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported on Friday, according Al Arabiya.

Ireland's High Court on Friday rejected a Facebook bid to block an inquiry by the Irish data regulator that could halt Facebook's data flows from the European Union to the United States.

China says its Mars probe and accompanying rover are expected to land on the red planet sometime between May 15 and May 19 Beijing time.

At least 12 people were killed in an explosion inside a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul during Friday prayers as worshippers gathered for the second day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said.

Israeli forces have launched air strikes and deployed troops on the ground on the Gaza Strip, according to a brief message from the Israeli army, while the Gaza Strip’s feeble health system has been struggling to provide treatment to the injured in the Israeli attack amid a runaway surge of coronavirus cases.

Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG) has said it is going to consult the Rohingya leaders across the world and engage them in its next courses of action as it seeks to regain power from the military junta that took control of the country through a coup in February this year.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck off the northwest coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) has said.

These are unprecedented times and this is the second Eid-ul-Fitr Muslims around the world are celebrating during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Former Uttarakhand state Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Trivendra Singh Rawat has termed coronavirus as a "living organism which has a right to live", sparking troll on social media.

The Indian government has sought another time extension from the parliament for framing the rules to implement the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Home Ministry sources said today.