Billionaires have seen their combined wealth shoot up 121 percent over the past decade to $14 trillion, Swiss bank UBS said Thursday.

South Korea’s ruling party leader said President Yoon Suk Yeol needs to be removed from power for trying to impose martial law, as the government denied reports yesterday it was preparing to issue another martial law declaration.

Rebel forces pressing a lightning offensive in Syria aim to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, their Islamist leader said in an interview published yesterday.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said 29 people were killed by Israeli strikes around a major hospital in the northern city of Beit Lahia yesterday.

Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has called on his supporters to hold a rally next week and threatened to start a civil disobedience movement days after his party led a deadly protest march in Islamabad.

He delivered the speech at a rally while protesting against the alleged atrocities against minorities in Bangladesh, police said

Amnesty International yesterday accused Israel of “committing genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza since the start of the war last year, saying its new report was a “wake-up call” for the world.

Russia’s top diplomat Sergei Lavrov yesterday accused the West of destabilising the “entire Eurasian continent” and warned that the Cold War that the west is waging can turn “hot”.

Scientists said that electrically stimulating a particular region in the brain could help people with injured spinal cords walk more easily, with one patient describing how the technique allowed him to conquer his fear of stairs.

In a year set to be declared the hottest on record, natural disasters caused $310 billion in economic losses globally in 2024, as climate change increasingly takes its toll, Swiss Re said Thursday.

A landmark defence pact between North Korea and Russia, signed by its leaders in June, has gone into effect after the two sides exchanged ratification documents, North Korea’s official KCNA news agency said yesterday.

President Emmanuel Macron yesterday sought a new prime minister to prevent France from sliding deeper into political turmoil after Michel Barnier’s government was ousted in a historic no-confidence vote in parliament.

Islamist-led rebels captured the central Syrian city of Hama yesterday, days after seizing the country’s commercial hub Aleppo in a lightning offensive against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

Says Amnesty Int'l, accuses Israel of 'committing genocide' in Gaza

Warns Lavrov, accuses West of destabilising the ‘entire Eurasian continent’

Mohammadi is serving multiple sentences in Tehran's notorious Evin prison on charges including spreading propaganda against the Islamic RepubliC

Last year, the agency appealed for $9.3 billion in its fundraising call

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has accepted the resignation of Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun

The new technique is intended for people with spinal cord injuries where the connection between their brain and spinal cord has not been totally severed, and who still have some movement in their legs.

A local epidemiologist said women and children were the most seriously affected by the disease