The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said one of its warehouses in war-ravaged Gaza was hit yesterday, amid mounting efforts to bring food to the besieged Palestinian territory.

The EU is set to better protect journalists from political pressure and surveillance under an unprecedented media freedom law approved by the European Parliament yesterday.

The European Parliament yesterday gave final approval to the world’s most far-reaching rules to govern artificial intelligence, including powerful systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday that would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner or get banned from the United States.

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Wednesday that at least 31,272 people have been killed in the territory during more than five months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants

President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the US sent troops to Ukraine it would be considered a significant escalation of the war

The number of children worldwide who died before age five reached a record low in 2022, the United Nations said in a report published Tuesday, as for the first time fewer than five million died

Leonid Volkov, a close ally of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was assaulted outside his home in Vilnius on Tuesday, an incident that sparked an uproar from the Lithuanian government

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both clinched their parties' nomination on Tuesday, kicking off the first US presidential election rematch in nearly 70 years.

Japan's Space One's small, solid-fuelled Kairos rocket exploded shortly after its inaugural launch on Wednesday as the firm tried to become the first Japanese company to put a satellite in orbit

A deepening rift between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza red lines has set up a potential showdown between the two leaders and raised questions about whether the US might restrict military aid if Israel goes ahead with a ground offensive in the south of the enclave

Locals in a city in western Japan have been told not to approach or touch a missing cat that fell into a vat of dangerous chemicals and then scampered off into the night. 

Covid-19 caused the average life expectancy of people worldwide to fall by 1.6 years during the first two years of the pandemic, a major study said yesterday. 

US intelligence agencies said on Monday the country faces an “increasingly fragile world order,” strained by great power competition, transnational challenges and regional conflicts, in a report released as agency leaders testified in Congress.   

Donald Trump on Monday pledged to free people jailed for taking part in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol as one of his first actions if reelected, calling them “hostages.” 

India has begun withdrawing military personnel operating surveillance aircraft in the Maldives after the new pro-China president ordered them to leave, defence authorities said Tuesday.

A Spanish charity ship taking food aid to Gaza left the Mediterranean island of Cyprus yesterday in hopes of opening a maritime corridor to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. 

Opposition parties in India have flayed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government for enforcing the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 paving the way for citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan while BJP has welcomed it

Russia, China and Iran began joint navy drills in the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday, Russia's defence ministry said, adding that the exercise focused on protection of maritime economic activity

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to resign and make way for a transitional authority, the president of Guyana and a US official said Monday after a regional meeting on a gang uprising that has plunged Haiti into violent chaos