European countries yesterday pushed back against a US-backed peace plan for Ukraine that sources said would require Kyiv to give up more land and partially disarm, conditions long seen by Ukraine’s allies as tantamount to capitulation.

Dozens of Tunisians including journalists yesterday protested to denounce attacks on press freedom, with some describing the crackdown on media as “unprecedented” since the country’s 2011 revolution.

The International Atomic Energy Agency board yesterday passed a resolution demanding that Iran provide “full and prompt” cooperation including access to sensitive nuclear sites, but Tehran immediately rejected the measure.

US President Donald Trump said he will host New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani for a meeting today, after fiercely attacking the 34-year-old self-described Democratic Socialist during his recent campaign.

Qatar, a key mediator in the Hamas-Israel war, yesterday condemned fresh Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, saying they threatened to upend a fragile weeks-long truce.

Pakistan security forces killed 30 militants in two targeted operations near the Afghan frontier, the army said yesterday, a week after a suicide bombing killed 12 people in Islamabad.

Charges for unfair competition practices and infringing EU data protection regulation

Responds to suicide bombing killing 12 last week in Islamabad

At least 4 killed on Thursday, says Gaza health authorities

The scandal has been a thorn in Trump's side for months

The 46-year-old Democrat then allegedly laundered the ill-gotten gains into campaign

Guo, who served as mayor of a town north of Manila, was found guilty of overseeing a Chinese-operated online gambling centre

Australia will force social media platforms to remove users under the age of 16 or face hefty fines

The WHO and its partners already vaccinated over 10,000 children under the age of three in the first eight days of an initial phase of the campaign launched on November 9.

12,000 children were killed or injured in conflict last year worldwide

It will be Trump’s first meeting with the democratic socialist who won this month’s mayoral election

France’s environment minister said yesterday that governments remain far from reaching a deal at UN climate talks in Brazil, but she was nonetheless “more optimistic” than the day before.

The European Union wants to train up to 3,000 Palestinian police officers in the Gaza Strip under a scheme similar to one it already runs in the West Bank, an EU official said yesterday.

An Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on Tuesday night killed 14 people and wounded several others, the Lebanese Health Ministry said yesterday.

Russia pummelled Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least 25 people and throwing doubt over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s attempts to “reinvigorate” the peace process with talks in Ankara later yesterday.