Thirty people drowned when an overloaded boat capsized in central Nigeria’s Niger state, an emergency official told AFP yesterday.

A 28-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday at the Vancouver International Airport in what Canadian authorities said was a gang-related slaying. Police were later fired on while pursuing the suspects.

Israeli police firing tear gas, stun grenades and rubber-coated bullets clashed with Palestinian stone-throwers at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site on Monday, the latest in a series of confrontations that is pushing the contested city to the brink of eruption.

A 43-member ministerial council, led by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was sworn in today -- eight days after Trinamool Congress stormed back to power for a third consecutive time in state assembly elections.

The outgoing prosecutor of the International Criminal Court met with a high-level Afghan delegation to discuss allegations of war crimes in the

Himanta Biswa Sarma will succeed Sarbananda Sonowal as the chief minister of Assam. At the legislature party meeting held in Guwahati yesterday,

Labour politician Sadiq Khan won re-election as London mayor on Saturday in a narrower than expected victory over Conservative rival Shaun Bailey.

President Vladimir Putin yesterday vowed Russia will “firmly” defend national interests and denounced the return of “Russophobia”, as the country marked the 76th anniversary of victory in World War II.

The Scottish National Party has won a fourth term in power in the devolved parliament just short of an outright majority, with its leader Nicola Sturgeon reiterating her demand for a fresh referendum on independence.

Israel “firmly rejects” pressure not to build in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday following days of unrest and spreading

The death toll from an explosion outside a school in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul has risen to 68, Afghan officials said yesterday, with doctors struggling to provide medical care to 165 injured and officials trying to identify bodies.

A large segment of a Chinese rocket re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean yesterday, the Chinese space agency said, following fevered speculation over where the 18-tonne object would come down.

India “squandered” its early successes in controlling Covid-19 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government could preside over “a self-inflicted national catastrophe”, international medical journal The Lancet said in an editorial on Saturday.

Clashes erupted between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police outside the Old City of Jerusalem on Saturday as tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers prayed at the nearby Al-Aqsa Mosque on Islam’s holy night of Laylat al-Qadr.

Pakistan on Satur­day expressed serious concern over illegal possession of a large quantity of uranium by two unauthorised persons in India and pointed to gaps in state control mechanisms there.

Sadiq Khan was re-elected London Mayor on Saturday as had been widely expected, providing some joy to the opposition Labour Party which has suffered a series of disappointing results in other local elections.

Some have claimed she’s indulging a forbidden romance. More likely, loneliness compels her to seek company at Rio de Janeiro’s zoo.

The death toll from an explosion outside a school in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul has risen to 58, Afghan officials said on Sunday, with doctors struggling to provide medical care to at least 150 injured.

Three people including a four-year-old girl were shot in New York City's Times Square after gunfire broke out in a dispute that they were apparently not involved in, the city's top police official said Saturday.

Remnants of China's biggest rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, with the bulk of its components destroyed upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, according to Chinese state media, ending days of speculation over where the debris would hit.