The tiny Caribbean nation of Curacao became the smallest country ever to qualify for the World Cup on Tuesday after a 0-0 draw against Jamaica in Kingston, with their coach Dick Advocaat, at 78, set to become the oldest coach at the showpiece event.

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents, offering a fierce defense of the visiting Saudi crown prince that contradicted a US intelligence assessment.

China will suspend Japanese seafood imports, media in Tokyo reported yesterday as a row sparked by comments about Taiwan deepens, although neither government confirmed the move.

Myanmar’s military said yesterday it raided an internet scam hub on the Thai border, arresting nearly 350 people, part of a highly publicised crackdown against the booming black market compounds.

Gunmen on Tuesday killed two people in an attack on a church in western Nigeria, according to a video of the incident and a police statement.

Nato members Romania and Poland yesterday scrambled fighter jets after Russian attacks in neighbouring Ukraine, with Bucharest saying a drone breached the country’s airspace.

Eleven survivors of a deadly boat capsize two weeks ago appeared in a Malaysian court yesterday, charged with illegally being in the Southeast Asian country, officials said.

Germany unveiled the country’s first national space security strategy yesterday, with Defence Minister Boris Pistorius vowing to expand military and civilian capabilities in orbit.

Humanitarian workers in Sudan’s Darfur are being forced to “choose who to save” due to insufficient resources, aid group Handicap International’s logistics chief Jerome Bertrand told AFP.

A UN-led assessment says Afghanistan requires $128.8 million to restore housing, schools and key services in its quake-hit eastern provinces, warning that reconstruction faces “significant shortfalls” as donor support for the country falls sharply.

Poland said yesterday it would close the Russian consulate in the northern port city of Gdansk, after accusing Moscow of orchestrating the sabotage of a train line earlier this week.

The Republican-controlled US Congress voted almost unanimously on Tuesday to force the release of Justice Department files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an outcome President Donald Trump had fought for months before ending his opposition.

Resolution previously received 13 votes in favour, none against

316 million women were victims of such violence in the past year alone

4 manga publishing firms previously filed a lawsuit in Tokyo in 2022

After the 2011 tsunami and meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Japan shut down all of its nuclear reactors

Sprawling fraud factories have ballooned in war-torn Myanmar's border regions

Before that ban, China accounted for more than a fifth of all Japan's seafood exports, according to official data.

For many EU states, the concern is that the focus on regulation has come at the expense of innovation

In addition, President Donald Trump approved a "major defense sale package," which includes future deliveries of F-35 advanced American fighter jets.