Unionised journalists at the Los Angeles Times walked off the job Friday for the first time in the paper’s 142-year history, after management said it planned significant job cuts to help plug a gaping financial hole.

Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan’s West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report seen by Reuters on Friday.

Unrelenting storms have pummelled the United States over the past week, leading to at least 50 weather-related deaths, officials and US media reported Friday, as large swathes of the country brace for new winter wallops

Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud today assured of continued Dhaka's diplomatic and further humanitarian support for the people of Palestine

The assets seized in Singapore's largest money laundering case that saw 10 foreigners arrested are now worth more than $3 billion

Thirteen people have died in a school dormitory fire in central China's Henan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported Saturday

Israel will let shipments of flour for Palestinians through the Israeli port of Ashdod, north of Gaza, the White House said Friday after President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke.

A UN human rights official yesterday accused Israel of mistreating Palestinian detainees in Gaza, saying he had met men who had described being held for weeks, beaten and blindfolded, with some released in diapers.

Police in Canada are investigating a series of extortions and related crimes that they believe are orchestrated by a suspect in India and involve criminals in Edmonton, Alberta, targeting the region’s affluent South Asian people.

The United Nations said yesterday that thousands of babies had been born in conditions “beyond belief” in Gaza since the Israeli offensive began more than three months ago.

Japan became yesterday the fifth nation to achieve a “soft landing” on the Moon, but its space agency said that the craft’s solar cells were not generating power.

Israel bombarded southern Gaza yesterday after it publicly sparred with its main ally the United States over the creation of a Palestinian state, a step which Washington sees as the only pathway to a lasting peace.

Fresh ethnic violence has killed five civilians in two districts of the north eastern Indian state of Manipur, senior police officials said.

Pakistan expressed its willingness to work with Iran on “all issues” in a call between their foreign ministers yesterday after both countries exchanged drone and missile strikes on militant bases on each other’s territory.

Nearly 300 Myanmar soldiers crossed the border into India to flee an advance by armed insurgents fighting the country’s junta, an Indian paramilitary officer told AFP yesterday.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed another attack on a US ship early yesterday, after the United States launched fresh strikes on rebel targets over their aggression towards vessels in and around the Red Sea.

North Korea has conducted a test of its underwater nuclear weapons system in a protest against this week’s joint military drills by South Korea, the United States and Japan, state media KCNA said yesterday.

Ukraine said it was behind a drone strike that sparked a huge inferno at an oil depot in western Russia yesterday, the latest in a series of escalating cross-border attacks.

The United Nations said Friday that thousands of babies had been born in conditions "beyond belief" in Gaza since the war there erupted more than three months ago

Pak FM talks to his Iranian counterpart, says Islamabad wants to build trust; Pakistan’s civil, military leaders meet to review security