Armed conflict is the top risk in 2025, a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey released yesterday showed, a reminder of the deepening global fragmentation.

China and Sri Lanka have agreed on more investment and economic cooperation, after China’s President Xi Jinping met recently elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Beijing yesterday.

Negotiators in Qatar appeared close to sealing a deal yesterday for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas after 15 months of death and destruction.

Firefighters on Tuesday held the line against two massive wildfires that have ravaged parts of Los Angeles for the past week, even as desert winds and a parched landscape presented extremely hazardous conditions.

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested and questioned by authorities yesterday in relation to a criminal insurrection investigation, saying he was only cooperating with what he called an illegal probe to avoid violence.

Russia launched a new barrage of missiles and drones at Ukraine yesterday, targeting gas infrastructure and other energy facilities in western regions in the latest strike on the country’s hobbled power system as it approaches mid-winter.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday faced a grilling from Conservative Party chief and Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch over former UK treasury minister Tulip Siddiq’s resignation and the economy as the two leaders clashed at Prime Minister’s Questions.

Qatar’s prime minister announced that Israel and Hamas had agreed yesterday to a ceasefire and the release of hostages held in Gaza, adding he hoped the deal would pave the way for a permanent end to the fighting.

Crowds of Gazans chanted and embraced as news spread that a ceasefire and hostage release deal had been reached

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Six India army personnel were injured in a landmine explosion in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district yesterday.

The Nato military alliance said yesterday it was launching a Baltic Sea monitoring mission following the suspected sabotage of undersea cables in recent months.

US President-elect Donald Trump would have been convicted for his alleged effort to overturn the result of the 2020 election if he hadn’t been elected four years later, said a report by then special counsel Jack Smith published by US media early yesterday.

Sudanese volunteer rescuers said shelling in the greater Khartoum area has killed at least 120 people, as fighting between the army and paramilitaries has escalated nationwide.

Joe Biden said Monday that America was stronger on the global stage than it had been for decades, in a swansong foreign policy speech one week before Donald Trump’s White House comeback.

Ukraine struck Russian regions with a major drone and missile attack overnight, damaging factories in at least three cities, officials and media said yesterday.

Britain’s competition watchdog yesterday launched an investigation into Google’s dominant position in the search engine market and its impacts on consumers and businesses.

The United States yesterday finalised a rule effectively barring Chinese technology from cars in the American market, taking aim at software and hardware from the world’s second-biggest economy over national security risks.