Deep differences exist between Hamas and Israel in negotiations for a Gaza truce, an official from the Palestinian group with knowledge of the talks said.

A Chinese-owned oil tanker was attacked off Yemen Saturday by ballistic missiles fired by Houthi rebels, who have intensified strikes on Red Sea shipping, the US military said.

Amid confusion over who carried out the attack on the Crocus City concert hall outside Moscow, Islamic State yesterday released new videos of the attack claiming responsibility

The more than 250 school students seized by gunmen in a mass kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria earlier this month have been released, the local governor said today

World leaders denounced a deadly attack by gunmen on a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 130 people and wounded dozens more

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit northern Papua New Guinea on Sunday morning, the United States Geological Survey said

Astronomers have identified two ancient streams of stars - named after the Hindu deities Shakti and Shiva - that appear to be among the Milky Way’s earliest building blocks, offering new insight into how our galaxy came together long ago.

US forces conducted self-defense strikes against three Houthi underground weapons storage facilities in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, US Central Command (Centcom) said on Friday.

Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini, a virtuoso of Chopin and Beethoven who enjoyed a decades-long collaboration with La Scala, died yesterday age 82, the Milan opera house announced.

The US Congress early yesterday overwhelmingly passed a USD1.2 trillion budget bill, keeping the government funded through a fiscal year that began six months ago and sending it to President Joe Biden to sign into law and avert a partial shutdown.

A long line of blocked relief trucks on Egypt’s side of the border with the Gaza Strip where people face starvation is a moral outrage, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said during a visit to the Rafah crossing yesterday.

Indonesian authorities recovered two bodies from the shores of West Aceh yesterday and said local fishermen reported several other drowning victims washed up after a vessel carrying Rohingya migrants capsized off the coast earlier this week.

Taiwan called yesterday for the swift return of one of its military officers who was rescued by Chinese authorities after losing contact during a fishing vacation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday vowed to punish those behind a “barbaric terrorist attack” on a Moscow concert hall that killed 133, saying Russia had arrested four gunmen who were trying to flee to Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to punish those behind a "barbaric terrorist attack" on a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 130, saying Russia had arrested four gunmen who were trying to flee to Ukraine

UN chief Antonio Guterres, on a visit to the doorstep of war-ravaged Gaza, today said the world has seen enough of its horrors and appealed for a ceasefire to allow in more aid

Russia on Saturday said it had arrested 11 people -- including four gunmen -- over the attack on a Moscow concert hall claimed by the Islamic State, as the death toll rose to 115.

Russia has arrested 11 people -- including all four assailants -- over Friday's deadly attack on a concert hall, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday

A vote at the UN Security Council on a new text calling for an "immediate" ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war was postponed to Monday, diplomatic sources told AFP, after a separate, US-lead draft resolution was vetoed

Gunmen who opened fire at a Moscow concert hall killed more than 60 people and wounded over 100 while sparking an inferno, authorities said Saturday, with the Islamic State group claiming responsibility