Russian forces staged their largest ever drone attack on Ukraine overnight, cutting power to much of the western region of Ternopil and damaging residential buildings in Kyiv region, Ukraine’s officials said yesterday.

Beijing said yesterday it deployed air and naval forces to monitor a US military plane as it flew over politically sensitive waters separating China and Taiwan.

Uncontrolled social media networks and artificial intelligence amplify the worst human impulses, allowing hate speech to spread like wildfire and ignite violence, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said yesterday.

More than 300 Afghan journalists have suffered rights breaches since the Taliban surged back to power in 2021, a United Nations report said yesterday, documenting dozens of cases of torture and arbitrary arrest.

Israel's security cabinet is expected to convene later on Tuesday to likely approve a text at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a senior Israeli official said.

In a series of posts to his Truth Social social media account, Trump vowed to hit some of the United States' largest trading partners with sweeping tariffs on all goods entering the country

Joe Biden will attend Donald Trump's inauguration in January, the White House said Monday

In Washington, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said, "We're close" but "nothing is done until everything is done".

The order from US District Judge Tanya Chutkan puts an end to the federal effort to hold Trump criminally responsible for his attempts to hold onto power after losing the 2020 election, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by a mob of his supporters.

UN’s Palestinian refugee agency has said half a million people are threatened by sewage flood amid Gaza’s rainy season, and cold temperatures will take a toll on thousands of malnourished people.

Israel’s security cabinet was preparing to decide whether to accept a proposed ceasefire in its war with Hezbollah, an official said yesterday, as the White House announced it believed a deal to end the fighting in Lebanon was “close”.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has reaffirmed Bangladesh’s steadfast support for Palestine.

At least one policeman was killed and dozens on both sides wounded as supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan clashed with security forces outside Pakistan’s capital Islamabad yesterday, a government minister and Khan’s party said.

One woman was killed by a partner or relative every 10 minutes worldwide in 2023, the United Nations warned yesterday, stressing that femicides remained at “alarmingly high levels”.

A pro-Russia far-right candidate took a surprise lead yesterday in Romania’s presidential election, as the EU-leaning premier was knocked out of the race that will be decided in a December run off.

Taiwan’s defence ministry yesterday reported that a Chinese balloon had been detected over the sea to Taiwan’s north, the first time since April it has reported such an incident in what Taipei views as part of a pattern of harassment by Beijing.

Thirty-nine foreigners have fled an online scam centre in Myanmar across the border to Thailand, where officials are working to identify potential trafficking victims, police told AFP yesterday.

Russian missiles damaged residential buildings in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv and Odesa in the south, and a blizzard of drones caused temporary power cuts in Mykolaiv region and targeted the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said yesterday.

India’s parliament was suspended yesterday after opposition lawmakers disrupted it demanding a discussion over bribery allegations against the Adani Group and Adani dollar bond prices fell to almost one-year lows as investors and lenders weighed the case.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the emerging ceasefire deal with Hezbollah "in principle" during a security consultation with Israeli officials on Sunday night, a source familiar with the matter said