The UN rights chief yesterday voiced deep concern over the United States’ “fundamental shift” in direction since Donald Trump returned to power, and decried the “unchecked power” of “unelected tech oligarchs”.

The International Court of Justice yesterday appointed Yuji Iwasawa as its new president, replacing Nawaf Salam, the new prime minister of Lebanon.

A woman suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Pakistani paramilitary troops in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan yesterday, killing at least one soldier and injuring four others, officials said.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has told British media that a ceasefire without security guarantees for his country would not bring a lasting end to Russia’s invasion after allies called for a truce.

The United States is drawing up a plan to potentially give Russia sanctions relief as President Donald Trump seeks to restore ties with Moscow and stop the war in Ukraine, a US official and another person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Pakistani and Afghan security forces yesterday clashed at the recently shuttered main border crossing between the two countries, killing at least one combatant and injuring several, officials said.

A car driven into a crowd in the German city of Mannheim yesterday killed two persons and injured several, police said, adding that one person had been arrested.

Myanmar’s junta chief yesterday departed for talks with President Vladimir Putin in Russia, a key ally and arms supplier for the isolated state struggling to quell violent opposition to military rule.

Piles of documents seen by AFP expose a vast economic empire that Maher al-Assad and his network of profiteers built by pillaging a country already impoverished by nearly 14 years of civil war.

Volodymyr Zelensky told British media Sunday it would not be easy to replace him as Ukraine's president, but repeated his offer to step down in exchange for NATO membership for his war-torn country

Britain's Ministry of Defence said Thales will manufacture the lightweight-multirole missiles for Ukraine.

Trump's growing closeness with Putin has rung alarm bells across Europe as well as among the US Democratic Party, who have raised national security concerns.

One person died last week in the blaze in the northern region of Iwate

Iran's parliament sacked the country's finance minister on Sunday after impeaching him over soaring inflation and a plunging currency, state television reported

"The National Armed Forces, international partners, and vigilant locals are still continuing operations"

Zelenskiy reiterated that Ukraine would not concede any territory to Russia as part of a peace deal.

Says host UK PM as Ukraine summit begins in London after Trump snub

A US company successfully landed its spacecraft on the Moon yesterday, marking only the second private mission to achieve the milestone -- and the first to do so upright.

Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza yesterday as a standoff over the truce that has halted fighting for the past six weeks escalated, with Hamas calling on Egyptian and Qatari mediators to intervene.

Rescuers recovered the eighth and final body from the site of an avalanche in a remote area of northern India, the army said yesterday, marking the end of a marathon operation in sub-zero temperatures.