United States Congressional lawmakers on Saturday passed a last-gasp budget measure to avoid a shutdown of the federal government within hours of a midnight deadline

Opposition candidate Mohamed Muiz won the Maldives presidential runoff on Saturday

The flood of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh dwindled to a trickle yesterday as Armenia said nearly the entire population of the breakaway territory had already fled after Azerbaijan seized back control.

Hundreds of forest fires in Indonesia have caused haze that has worsened air quality in parts of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur’s top environment official has said, a claim Jakarta denied yesterday.

The Maldives voted yesterday to decide its next president in an election seen as a referendum on whether to hitch its fortunes to China or India, both vying for influence in the tropical paradise.

Russia’s former leader Dmitry Medvedev suggested yesterday that Moscow may annex more regions of Ukraine, as he marked one year since the Kremlin claimed four Ukrainian territories as its own.

Heavy rains overnight in the northeastern United States left parts of New York under water on Friday, partially paralysing subways and airports in America’s financial capital.

Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has accused Canada of giving “operating space” to terrorists and extremists, as he rejected claims by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the Indian government may have played a role in the assassination of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil.

A huge fire has erupted at an oil pipeline in the western Ukrainian region of Ivano-Frankivsk, injuring three people, emergency services said yesterday.

A quarter of a century after Tupac Shakur was gunned down in a gang feud in Las Vegas, a man was charged Friday with his murder, a killing that came to symbolise the violence of gangsta rap as it surged into the mainstream.

Four miners were killed and five more feared buried after a shaft in a Zimbabwean gold mine collapsed, the miners federation said yesterday.

A man was killed and another injured after a whale struck a boat off the coast of eastern Australia yesterday, police said.

Over 100 passengers, including migrants, were rescued from a ferry sailing from Italy’s Lampedusa to Sicily early yesterday, after a fire broke out in the engine room, authorities said.

The United States is imposing visa restrictions on dozens of Nicaraguan municipal officials for their role in alleged attacks on human rights, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement

Russia is celebrating the first anniversary of the annexation of Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regionson September 30. The Kremlin is flaunting its land grab using entirely different language, referring to it as the "accession of new regions"

Heavy rains overnight in the northeastern United States left parts of New York under water on Friday, partially paralysing subways and airports in America's financial capital

Glaciers in Central Europe have been melting faster than ever before, reaching their highest rates of disappearance since records began, according to a report published by the Swiss Commission for Cryospheric Observation (SCC) of the Swiss Academy of Sciences on Thursday

A Palestinian activist and member of the Islamist Hamas movement was killed on Friday evening during a clash with Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, according to multiple sources

Russia hosted Taliban leaders for talks on regional security yesterday as it seeks to forge ties with Afghanistan’s new rulers and assert itself as a major power in the region.

The number of Europe-bound migrants who died or went missing in the Mediterranean this summer has tripled since last year, the UN said yesterday, adding it had become a “cemetery” for children.