International flights resumed at Syria’s main airport in Damascus yesterday for the first time since rebels toppled President Bashar al-Assad last month, AFP journalists said.

Ukraine launched an overnight strike deep inside Russia that set fire to an oil depot in the city of Engels that serves an air base for Russian nuclear bomber planes, the Ukrainian military said yesterday.

Three soldiers and 19 militants were killed in the latest clashes in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region, the military said Tuesday.

The patient, aged over 65, had been hospitalized in the southern state since at least mid-December

HMPV has likely been around for centuries, and it has likely infected most people once in their lifetime.

BRICS was created in 2009 by founding members Brazil, Russia, India and China. South Africa joined the following year.

A dozen firearms were seized along with several stolen vehicles and ballistic vests

The mercury could sink tens of degrees below seasonal norms on the US Gulf Coast.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said a new hypersonic missile system tested this week would help deter the country's Pacific rivals, state media reported Tuesday, as Washington's top diplomat visited the region

Today's quake was the most powerful recorded within a 200-kilometre radius in the last five years

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation yesterday, saying he will leave office as soon as the ruling Liberal party chooses a new leader after months of slumping polls and internal division.

Israel and Hamas have wrangled over the details of a deal to halt fighting in the Gaza Strip and return hostages home, as Palestinian officials said intensified Israeli bombardments had killed more than 100 people over the weekend.

Iran in 2024 executed at least 31 women, an NGO said yesterday, warning that female prisoners were increasingly being caught in a surge in the use of capital punishment in the Islamic republic.

Turkey said yesterday that it was “only a matter of time” before Syrian Kurdish fighters -- seen by the West as essential in the fight against Islamic State jihadists -- will be wiped out.

Dangerous wintry conditions descended Sunday on a large swath of the central United States as a severe storm system tracked eastward, prompting travel and work disruptions from Kansas City to Washington.

More than 30 million people, over half of them children, are in need of aid in Sudan after twenty months of war, the United Nations said yesterday.

Jailed former Malaysian leader Najib Razak yesterday moved closer to serving the rest of his sentence at home after an appeal court ruled he could use a royal decree supporting his claim.

 At least eight policemen and a driver were killed in a bomb blast set off by Maoist rebels in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police said yesterday.

The United States is finalising steps to clear hurdles for civil nuclear partnership with Indian firms, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said yesterday, seeking to give fresh momentum to a landmark deal between the two countries.

Chinese hackers were involved in most of the cyberattacks against Taiwan last year, which doubled to a daily average of 2.4 million, Taiwanese security officials said.