Pakistan and Afghan officials were due to meet in Qatar yesterday, a day after Islamabad launched air strikes that killed at least 10 people in Afghanistan and broke a ceasefire that had brought two days of calm to the border.

The United Nations’ aid chief took stock of the monumental task of restoring basic necessities in the devastated Gaza Strip yesterday, as Israel and Hamas exchanged more human remains.

On Friday, a suicide attack near the border killed seven Pakistani soldiers, security officials say

He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ceasefire between Israeli forces and Hamas now in its second week

The 48-hour truce paused nearly a week of bloody border clashes

Beijing last week announced sweeping controls on the critical rare earths industry

US officials said Friday they granted approval to Boeing to increase production on 737 MAX aircraft in the latest sign of the aviation giant's improving standing with safety regulators

US President Donald Trump has refiled a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, court documents show, weeks after it was thrown out by a federal judge.

Nearly 80 percent of the world’s poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a “double and deeply unequal burden,” the United Nations warned yesterday.

Hamas yesterday called on mediators to push for the next steps under the ceasefire in Gaza, including reopening the border, letting in aid, beginning reconstruction, setting up an administration and completing Israel’s withdrawal.

Israeli forces shot dead an 11-year-old boy in the occupied West Bank, his family and health officials said yesterday, while the army said its troops opened fire at rock throwers.

The European Union will not send observers to Myanmar’s upcoming election, its top human rights official said yesterday, dismissing the vote as neither free nor fair and urging Southeast Asian nations to “push for change”.

John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, was indicted on Thursday -- the third foe of Trump to be hit with criminal charges in recent weeks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets Donald Trump at the White House yesterday, seeking US-made Tomahawk missiles even as the US president readies for a fresh summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Said White House official describing trade talks between two countries 'productive'

Peru's new government said Thursday that a state of emergency will be declared in the capital Lima, after weeks of anti-government protests over corruption and organized crime

Murayama, in office from 1994-1996, issued the 1995 statement on the 50th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II

Cambodia will deport on Friday 59 South Koreans who worked in cyberscam schemes, police said, after Seoul sent a team to investigate the fate of dozens of its nationals.

Madagascar’s new military ruler, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, said he will be sworn in as president on Friday and was open to talks with the African Union, after it suspended the country’s membership following a coup to oust President Andry Rajoelina.