Former Guinean dictator Moussa Dadis Camara was yesterday taken from prison by a heavily armed commando during an operation that sparked heavy gunfire in the capital Conakry, a minister and lawyers say.

President Volodymyr Zelensky denied yesterday that Ukraine’s war with Russia had reached a “stalemate”, pushing back at suggestions Western leaders were lobbying for peace talks.

The death toll from Storm Ciaran rose to at least 16 across Western Europe on Friday, as heavy downpours and record winds brought travel chaos.

The United Nations said yesterday that 4.4 million people worldwide were known to be stateless, though the true figure would be significantly higher due to their relative “invisibility”.

The US secretary of state reaffirmed US support for 'humanitarian pauses'

Blinken meets Arab leaders demanding ceasefire

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said at least 15 people were killed Saturday when Israel struck a United Nations school where thousands of displaced Palestinians were sheltering

The UN human rights chief Saturday strongly denounced the "sharp rise in hatred globally" since the war between Hamas and Israel began on October 7

The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said Saturday at least 9,488 people were killed in the Palestinian territory since war with Israel erupted last month

An Israeli air strike on an ambulance being used to evacuate the wounded from besieged northern Gaza killed 15 people and injured 60 others on Friday, the Hamas-controlled enclave's health ministry said

India’s capital New Delhi was wrapped in a thick layer of toxic haze yesterday and some schools were ordered closed as the air quality index (AQI) plummeted to the “severe” category. 

An alliance of Myanmar ethnic minority groups said it made more gains in its offensive against the ruling junta yesterday, with the regime vowing it would hit back at the biggest military challenge it has faced since it seized power.

A group of UN-mandated human rights experts, including the special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, said Thursday “time is running out to prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza”, which Israel called Hamas “propaganda”.

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah yesterday warned the United States that if Israel did not stop its assault on Gaza then fighting on the Lebanese front could turn into a wider war.

Russia launched a massive drone attack early yesterday, hitting critical infrastructure in the west and south of Ukraine and destroying private houses and commercial buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, officials said.

Italian police yesterday said they had arrested a Bangladesh citizen suspected of belonging to a Pakistani Al-Qaeda-linked group who was studying military tactics and publishing incendiary videos online.

A bomb blast targeting a Pakistan police van in northwestern Pakistan yesterday killed five civilians and wounded 21 people, officials said.

Workers crossing into the Palestinian enclave said they have been detained and ill-treated by Israeli authorities after the Oct 7 Hamas attack

The death toll from a fire at a drug rehabilitation centre in northern Iran rose to 32, local media reported today, up from an earlier count of 27

Myanmar's junta chief today vowed to strike back after an alliance of ethnic minority groups seized towns and blocked trade routes to China in the biggest coordinated offensive against the military since it seized power in a coup