Walz, a 60-year-old US Army National Guard veteran and former teacher, was elected to a Republican-leaning district in the US House of Representatives in 2006 and served 12 years before being elected governor of Minnesota in 2018.

Shan State in eastern Myanmar has been rocked by fighting since late June when the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) renewed an offensive against the military along a major trade highway to China.

Days after the 1945 Hiroshima attack, a second US nuclear bomb hit Nagasaki in southwest Japan, killing around 74,000 people.

Boeing's quality control practices will be placed under a microscope this week

The US vice president's campaign has come out of the blocks at a lightning pace since she replaced Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket, smashing fundraising records and wiping out the leads built up by Republican rival Donald Trump.

It is also a green light to aggressive US antitrust enforcers prosecuting Big Tech, a sector that has been under fire from across the political spectrum.

The United States called yesterday for calm in Bangladesh after long-ruling leader Sheikh Hasina fled, and saluted the military for forming an interim government instead of cracking down further on protesters

The Indian Cabinet Committee on Security met at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official residence yesterday evening amid the turmoil in Bangladesh

India’s Border Security Force has issued a “high alert” along the 4,096 km-long India-Bangladesh border considering the current law-and-order situation in Bangladesh

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday urged calm in Bangladesh after the resignation and departure of Sheikh Hasina, and highlighted the need for a "peaceful, orderly and democratic transition"

Australia yesterday raised its terrorism threat level from “possible” to “probable”, with the country’s top intelligence official citing a homegrown rise in “extreme ideologies”.

Kamala Harris will name her running mate as she prepares for a tour of US battleground states aimed at turning excitement over her presidential bid into durable support that can power her to victory.

Hurricane Debby made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast early yesterday, knocking power out for hundreds of thousands of people as the US southeast braced for potentially historic levels of rain and major flooding.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said violent protesters who had targeted Muslim communities would swiftly face the “full force of the law” as he sought to quell days of anti-immigration rioting.

Israel returned the bodies of more than 80 Palestinians killed in its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli airstrikes killed at least 18 more people yesterday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

Iran said yesterday it has the “legal right” to respond to the assassination in Tehran last week of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, an attack blamed on Israel amid the Gaza offensive.

Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister, Imran Khan, who blames the military for his ouster and 12-month-old imprisonment on what he calls trumped-up charges, said on Sunday it would be “foolish” not to have an excellent relationship with the army.

A court in Algiers said yesterday that three rejected presidential candidates were placed under “judicial supervision” while another 68 people, including elected officials, were temporarily detained as part of an investigation into electoral fraud.

Hasina's 15-year rule ended today as she fled weeks of deadly protests and the military announced it would form an interim government

Russia said yesterday its armed forces seized the village of Novoselivka Persha in eastern Ukraine, the latest in a string of frontline advances Moscow has claimed in recent weeks.