US Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in a packed arena in Arizona on Friday, hoping to put Republican candidate Donald Trump on the back foot in the West, while Trump held his own rally in Montana to support a Republican candidate for Senate.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in a phone call on Friday that the escalation of tensions in the Middle East was “in no party’s interest” while also stressing the need for a Gaza ceasefire, the State Department said.

The Biden administration has decided to lift a ban on US sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, the State Department said on Friday, reversing a three-year-old policy to pressure the kingdom to wind down the Yemen war

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has congratulated Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus for taking charge of the interim government in Bangladesh

More than 100 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a Gaza school sheltering displaced people, the official Palestinian news agency said on Saturday, while the Israeli army said it had hit a Hamas command centre

A plane with 62 people on board crashed in Vinhedo, Brazil, on Friday, local TV station GloboNews reported

A series of attempted attacks using missiles and a sea drone targeted a merchant vessel off areas of Yemen held by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, a British maritime security agency said yesterday.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned yesterday that UK authorities must “stay on high alert” in the coming hours and days, amid fears of further far-right riots in English towns and cities.

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic opponent Kamala Harris will debate on September 10 on ABC, setting up the first face-to-face match-up between the rivals in what polls show is a close race.

Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa’s news website Rappler won an appeal to restore its corporate licence after a court overturned a regulator’s decision to shutter the media company.

Ukraine pressed on with a major cross-border incursion into Russia yesterday, also launching a significant air attack on a Russian airfield hundreds of kilometres behind the front lines.

Israeli troops yesterday launched a new assault into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, as American, Qatari and Egyptian mediators renewed their push for Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire deal.

India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar yesterday began a three-day visit to the Maldives since Male expelled dozens of Indian soldiers and shifted towards China.

Bombardment by pro-Iranian groups supporting the Syrian government killed 13 civilians in an eastern village under the control of Kurdish-led forces, a war monitor said yesterday.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro suspended access to the social media site X on Thursday, as he faced renewed pressure from a trio of friendly Latin American nations to release data proving his claimed reelection was valid.

Donald Trump proposed three September debates against Kamala Harris Thursday as he sought to wrest back some of the attention lavished on his rival since her blockbuster entry into the US presidential election

A fire broke out at a Russian military airfield hundreds of kilometres from the Ukrainian border, state media reported early Friday, with authorities ordering evacuations in the area due to a "massive" drone attack

Israel said yesterday it was revoking the diplomatic status of Norway’s envoys to the Palestinian Authority accusing Oslo of “anti-Israel behaviour” during the Gaza war and drawing a formal protest.

Afghan government employees must attend mosque five times a day or face punishment, Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada said yesterday in his latest edict.

The United Nations yesterday said the dissolution of Thailand’s main opposition Move Forward Party was “deeply troubling” and seriously impacted fundamental freedoms.