More than 1,000 other Palestinians taken into Israeli custody since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack

As residents fled for their lives, the army deployed some 5,000 troops to the cocaine-growing Catatumbo region at the center of a fast-escalating territorial war

Trump promised to issue an executive order delaying the ban to allow time to "make a deal."

Bushra al-Tawil, a Palestinian journalist jailed in Israel in March 2024, was among the first batch of prisoners to be released in the truce

"I will act with historic speed and strength and fix every single crisis facing our country," he said

TikTok stopped working for its 170 million American users late on Saturday before a law shutting it down on national security grounds took effect yesterday, but a day before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump said “SAVE TIKTOK!” in a Truth Social post.

Thousands of displaced, war-weary Gazans set off across the devastated Palestinian territory to return to their home areas yesterday after a long-awaited truce between Israel and Hamas took effect following an initial delay.

Nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in early December, the UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said Saturday ahead of a visit to the region.

At least 86 people were killed and more injured in northern Nigeria on Saturday when a petrol tanker truck overturned, spilling fuel that exploded, the country’s national emergency agency said.

Supporters of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol stormed a Seoul court yesterday after a judge extended the impeached leader’s detention over his ill-fated attempt to impose martial law.

President-elect Donald Trump was due to take a victory lap yesterday with a campaign-style rally in Washington, DC, a day before he is sworn in for a second term four years after losing the White House to Joe Biden.

Here are the main elements of a Gaza ceasefire deal that went into effect yesterday after 15 months of conflict that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and inflamed the Middle East.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed an attack on an American aircraft carrier yesterday and warned of “consequences” for any retaliation during the Gaza ceasefire.

Ukrainian air defences shot down 43 out of 61 drones launched by Russia in an overnight attack yesterday that targeted nine regions across Ukraine, the air force said.

A Myanmar junta air strike killed 28 people, including children, and wounded 25 at a temporary detention area in western Rakhine state, an ethnic minority armed group said yesterday.

Thousands of displaced, war-weary Gazans set off across the devastated Palestinian territory to return to their home areas yesterday after a long-awaited truce between Israel and Hamas took effect following an initial delay

Nine children were among those dead, including a two-year-old boy

US President-elect Donald Trump has launched his own cryptocurrency, appropriately called $TRUMP, sparking feverish buying that sent its market capitalization soaring on Saturday to several billion dollars

A sweeping deportation program, ending "transgender lunacy," "drill, baby, drill," and peace for Ukraine: President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to move big and fast when he returns to the White House on Monday...Here is a look at his sensational but frequently vague promises for a s

Southeast Asian foreign ministers told Myanmar's junta to prioritise a ceasefire in its civil war over fresh elections during a meeting in Malaysia on Sunday