Gaza’s civil defence agency said yesterday that a series of Israeli air strikes killed at least 40 people, most of them in encampments for displaced civilians, as Israel pressed its unrelenting military offensive in the Palestinian territory.

The interim government yesterday strongly protested India’s attempts to link Bangladesh to communal violence in Murshidabad, West Bengal, and urged the neighbouring nation to take steps to protect its minority Muslim population there.

The tens of thousands of US troops stationed in South Korea and Japan appear set to be part of President Donald Trump’s tariff negotiations, despite efforts by both countries to separate security talks from trade.

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet's atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.

Two Myanmar towns on a lucrative trade route to Thailand have been besieged by fighting despite a truce declared after last month’s massive earthquake, residents told AFP yesterday.

Russia’s Supreme Court yesterday removed the Taliban’s designation as a “terrorist organisation”, a symbolic gesture aimed at building friendly ties with Afghanistan’s de facto rulers.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday put a hold on several provisions of the recently enacted Waqf Act for seven days and directed the central government to maintain the status quo till the next hearing.

US President Donald Trump scuppered an Israeli plan to strike Iranian nuclear sites, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, as Washington attempts to reach a deal to curb Tehran’s weapons program.

More than 130 international students across the United States have joined a federal lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully canceling their visas, jeopardising their legal status in the country, court documents show.

China’s leader Xi Jinping urged Cambodia to “resist protectionism,” as he arrived in Phnom Penh yesterday at the end of a three-nation tour of Southeast Asia, as US tariffs threatened the economies of both countries.

The victim alleged that he was physically assaulted and abused

The government would not de-notify "waqf by deed" and "waqf by user" properties till the next hearing

2,589 arrived in Italy in the first two months of this year, up from 1,206 in the same period last year

Poultry genetics research was shut down, fruit and vegetable test plots went unwatered,

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said its treatment will be part of the conversation about resetting US-Russia relations.

"Israel had sought Washington's assistance to carry out an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in May"

The mosquito-borne virus, which typically causes fever, muscle pains, nausea and headaches, is endemic to multiple countries in South America

Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said an overnight strike targeted several tents in the Al-Mawasi area of the southern city of Khan Yunis, resulting in 16 deaths.

The ICC said it has at least 421 documents, nine photos and nearly 16 hours of audio and video files that it would use as evidence against Duterte

Western countries including the United States have long accused Iran of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons