No casualties were reported in the blast and an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the explosion

Two dozen world leaders will meet in Russia next week for a summit of the BRICS group, an alliance of emerging economies that the Kremlin hopes will challenge Western "hegemony"

Two Israeli air strikes targeted south Beirut on Sunday after the Israeli army warned civilians to evacuate the stronghold of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement

India's government and civil aviation authorities have warned that "very strict action" will be taken.

Netanyahu's office said a drone was launched towards his residence in the central town of Caesarea but he and his wife were not home and there were no injuries.

The money is the latest example of Musk using his extraordinary wealth to influence the tightly-contested presidential race between Trump and his Democratic rival Kamala Harris.

The Hamas media office said at least 73 people had been killed in the strike. No official casualty figures were immediately available from the health ministry however Medway Abbas, a senior health ministry official, said the figures were accurate.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will roll out starkly contrasting celebrity back-ups this weekend in Pennsylvania and Michigan -among the most prized battleground states set to decide the tightest of US presidential races.

Israel said a drone targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence yesterday, as Hezbollah launched a barrage of projectiles into Israel from its northern neighbour Lebanon.

A boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya refugees was spotted off Indonesia’s westernmost province with at least one dead body seen on board, local officials said yesterday.

Naval drills hosted by Iran with the participation of Russia and Oman and observed by nine other countries began in the Indian Ocean yesterday, Iran’s state TV said.

Cuban Tania Ramirez walks alone along Havana’s famous Malecon promenade to relieve the stress wrought by the massive blackout that has plunged the entire island into darkness.

Twelve Bangladeshi and Egyptian men left Albania for Italy yesterday after judges ruled against their detention in the non-EU nation under a controversial deal between Rome and Tirana.

The one million children in Gaza are living a “hell on Earth”, the UN said Friday, with around 40 children having been killed there every day over the past year.

The United States on Friday reported a budget deficit of $1.8 trillion for the past year, widening from 2023’s level on greater spending, including for interest on the public debt.

Gold surged above the historic threshold of $2,700-per-ounce on Friday, powered by escalating tensions in the Middle East, uncertainties around the US elections and relaxed monetary policy expectations that pushed the metal into uncharted territory.

Striking machinists at Boeing BA.N will vote Wednesday on a new contract proposal that includes a 35% pay hike over four years that could end a costly five-week-old strike, the company and union said yesterday.

There are no more oral cholera vaccines left in the global stockpile, the World Health Organization said Friday, with the shortage jeopardising work to stop the disease's spread

Gaza's civil defence agency said an Israeli strike on Friday night near Jabalia in the territory's north killed 33 people at a refugee camp

The Israeli military announced the death of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar after a group of soldiers killed him in a chance encounter in southern Gaza’s Rafah.