Riyadh paused tentative talks on the matter early in the Gaza conflict

He was the founder and president of the Aga Khan Development Network

Five people were shot and wounded at a school in the central Swedish city of Orebro yesterday, police said, urging the public to stay away from the area as a large operation was underway.

Sri Lanka’s leftist president marked the anniversary of independence from Britain yesterday with a pledge to change the impoverished island nation’s image as a “corrupt” country.

Myanmar’s embattled junta has banned anyone eligible for military conscription from leaving the country without permission, as it seeks to shore up its forces fighting rebel groups opposed to its rule.

People in the Indian capital, New Delhi, will head to polling booths today to elect a new government after weeks of aggressive campaigning by the principal players Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), BJP and Congress who are hoping to rewrite the capital’s electoral history.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Kyiv yesterday and inspected an electricity distribution substation, warning that attacks on Ukraine’s power grid could pose a risk of nuclear accident by disrupting supply.

Mexico yesterday began the 10,000-strong border troop deployment it had promised US President Donald Trump in exchange for delaying a 25-percent tariff on exported goods, President Claudia Sheinbaum said.

Elon Musk and his aides have taken control of the US Treasury Department’s payments system, triggering a lawsuit charging he is illegally getting access to private data of millions of Americans.

The Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank is heading in a “catastrophic direction”, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said yesterday, after a new Israeli military operation levelled several buildings.

Researchers in Cyprus have discovered a hidden portrait that lay undetected for centuries beneath a 1570 oil painting by Renaissance master Titian, a rendering of which is now on display in the city of Limassol.

A Russian missile attack Tuesday on the Ukrainian city of Izyum, briefly occupied by Russia in 2022, killed five people and wounded more than four dozen others, officials said

Israel said it was sending a team to negotiate the next phase in its fragile ceasefire with Hamas, signalling possible progress ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with US President Donald Trump

Thousands of people were leaving the Greek island of Santorini by sea and air for a third day on Tuesday, as an unprecedented series of earthquakes shook the top travel destination...Some 6,000 people have already left the island, known for its spectacular cliffside views and a dorma

Blanket stop-work orders that were issued by the State Department have thrown the aid industry into panic

Lung cancer is the commonest form of the disease, with 2.5 million people diagnosed in 2022

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday he had been put in charge of the US aid agency, saying he would stop its "insubordination" to President Donald Trump's agenda

India is keen to enhance trade relations with the US and make it easier for its citizens to get skilled worker visas

Netanyahu will discuss the truce's future and efforts to end the Gaza war.

Kakao owns an online bank, South Korea's largest taxi-hailing app and KakaoTalk