The president of cash-strapped Maldives will take a 50-percent pay cut as part of an austerity drive that will see public sector salaries reduced to prevent a debt crisis in the tourist hotspot, his office said Thursday.

India and China started pulling back troops from a close standoff at two friction points -- Demchok and Depsang Plains in eastern Ladakh -- following a recent agreement on disengagement, Indian media reported today.

Residents of the northern Philippines used spades and rakes to clear their homes of mud and debris on Friday while others still awaited rescue as the death toll from Tropical Storm Trami rose to 66.

The US election takes a detour from the swing state circuit to decamp to Texas on Friday as Kamala Harris rallies with pop superstar Beyonce and Donald Trump sits down with the world's biggest podcaster.

Lebanese state media said Friday that separate Israeli air strikes killed three journalists in eastern Lebanon and flattened buildings in southern suburbs of Beirut

At least 17 Palestinians, including children, were killed yesterday in an Israeli strike on a school in Nuseirat camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, where people displaced by the fighting were sheltering, Nuseirat’s Al-Awda hospital said.

A former model has accused Donald Trump of groping her after the two were introduced by sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s, The Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The proportion of women killed in conflict in 2023 doubled compared to the previous year, according to a UN report that denounced “oppressive patriarchal” structures and called out an increase in sexual violence in war zones.

The United States does not want Israeli actions in Lebanon to lead to a protracted campaign, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday, more than a month since Israel began a major offensive against Hezbollah in the country.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said yesterday more than 770 people have been killed in the north of the territory since Israel launched an assault aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping there.

Israel conducted at least 17 raids overnight that levelled six buildings, according to Lebanon’s official National News Agency, sending a huge ball of fire enveloped in a tower of smoke soaring into the night sky.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told a BRICS summit on Thursday that the Middle East was on the verge of full-scale war.

A Paris conference on aid for conflict-stricken Lebanon raised around $1 billion yesterday but saw little diplomatic progress as fighting continues between Israel and Hezbollah.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said yesterday it can no longer provide first responder services in the north of the territory, accusing Israeli forces of threatening to “bomb and kill” its crews.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told BRICS leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that the world needed peace in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine and Sudan

The outbreak has sickened people across the US West and Midwest, with 10 hospitalized due to serious complications

Bibi was bailed on a separate pending case yesterday

Gaza's civil defence agency said Thursday it can no longer provide first responder services in the north of the territory, accusing Israeli forces of threatening to "bomb and kill" its crews

More than 150,000 to flee their homes in the Philippines

Pakistan's government denies being unfair in Khan's treatment and its election commission denies the elections were rigged