Global air pollution is worsening, with the United States and Canada experiencing the sharpest increases due to record-breaking, climate-supercharged wildfires that are undoing decades of progress, a study said yesterday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un will attend a military parade in Beijing, marking the first public appearance of the two leaders alongside President Xi Jinping in a show of collective defiance amid Western pressure.

All United Nations Security Council members, except the United States, on Wednesday said the famine in Gaza was a “manmade crisis” and warned that the use of starvation as a weapon of war is banned under international humanitarian law.

Russia pounded Ukraine with deadly missiles and drone strikes early yesterday in a sweeping attack that President Volodymyr Zelensky said was Moscow’s answer to diplomatic efforts to end its war.

Israel’s military said it intercepted a drone launched from Yemen yesterday, after sirens sounded in communities near the Gaza Strip.

Nato yesterday said all its members were finally set this year to hit the alliance’s previous defence spending target of two percent of GDP -- as they gear up for a far more ambitious goal.

Hundreds of UN staff at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk have asked him to explicitly describe the Gaza war as an unfolding genocide, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

Afghan officials said Pakistani drones struck homes in Nangarhar and Khost provinces late on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding seven, prompting the Taliban government to summon Pakistan's ambassador in Kabul on Thursday in protest

US corporate profits rebounded in the second quarter, but tariffs on imports are raising costs for businesses, which could limit further gains and hamper economic growth

‘Using food as a tool to conduct targeted and mass disappearances needs to end now’

The shooting ended when the lone suspect, identified as Robin Westman, 23, "took his own life" at the rear of the church

Malaysia has been seeking to develop its capabilities in rare earths mining and processing

Anna Hattle and Riki Fameli received voicemails informing them that they were fired

South Korea has recently cited concerns over smartphone addiction among students.

Now, children do not have the strength to speak or even cry out in agony, says Inger Ashing

Monarez was not "aligned with the President's agenda of Making America Healthy Again"

Three transboundary rivers in the east of the country have swollen to exceptionally high levels as a result of heavy rains across the border in India.

Attending the parade will be 26 foreign heads of state and government, Assistant Foreign Minister Hong Lei said at a news conference.

The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog has said a team of its inspectors are “back in Iran,” the first to enter since Israeli and US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities this year.

Minneapolis police responded to a shooting at a Catholic church and school in the south end of the US city yesterday, and authorities said the shooter had been “contained.”