At least 158 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza in 24 hours, the enclave’s health ministry said yesterday, as Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi accused Israel of placing ‘big impediments’ to aid for Palestinians.

At least 1.4 million lives have been saved in Europe thanks to Covid vaccines, the World Health Organization said yesterday, recalling that the virus was “here to stay”.

Births in France fell last year to their lowest annual number since World War II, the national statistics bureau said yesterday. Around 678,000 babies were born in 2023, INSEE said, a drop of 6.6 percent from the previous year and the lowest number for any year since 1946.

North Korean hackers are sharing money-laundering and underground banking networks with fraudsters and drug traffickers in Southeast Asia, according to a United Nations report published yesterday, with casinos and crypto exchanges emerging as key venues for organised crime

Global tobacco use has tumbled in a generation with one in five people smoking versus one in three in 2000, the World Health Organization said today

Kim Jong Un threatened South Korea with war if "even 0.001 mm" of the North's territory is violated, as Pyongyang abolished agencies that oversaw cooperation and reunification, state media said Tuesday

Donald Trump's victory Monday in the Iowa caucuses surprised no one, confirming his grip on the Republican Party and offering clues about the campaign ahead

"Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He's the clear front runner on the other side at this point," Biden said on X, formerly Twitter.

The lower import duty structure on crude palm oil, crude sunflower oil and crude soyoil was set to expire in March 2024

As many as 128 flights from the international airport in New Delhi, the capital, were delayed, with 33 cancelled, aviation site Flightradar24 showed, an effect that cascaded through flight schedules nationwide.

Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old born in Ohio to immigrant parents from southern India, was one of the surprises of the 2024 Republican race dominated by former President Trump.

The Revolutionary Court sentenced Mohammadi to 15 months in prison after a trial that she boycotted, her family added in their statement.

Israel on Monday said the "intensive" phase of its war on Hamas in devastated southern Gaza would end "soon" as the UN chief pleaded for an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire"

Donald Trump swept to victory Monday in Iowa's caucuses -- the first vote in the US presidential race -- cementing his status as the presumptive Republican standard-bearer to challenge President Joe Biden in November's election

Three United Nations agencies yesterday called on Israel to allow access to the port of Ashdod, north of Gaza, for the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid.

The world’s wealthiest five men have more than doubled their fortune since 2020, the charity Oxfam said yesterday, calling on nations to resist the ultra-rich’s influence over tax policy.

The death toll from the Israeli offensive in Gaza has topped 24,000, the enclave’s health ministry said yesterday, as the occupying force kept pounding the Palestinian territory for the 101th day.

The US military said Sunday its forces shot down a cruise missile fired at an American destroyer warship from Houthi controlled areas of Yemen.

Flight and train services were disrupted in India’s capital New Delhi for the second day running yesterday as dense fog and cold enveloped large swathes of the northern part of the country.

An ethnic armed group in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine said it has taken control of a town bordering India and Bangladesh, marking the latest loss for the military government as it battles rebellion in several parts of the country.