UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is set Wednesday to host a climate meeting marred at its outset by the absence of speakers from the world's top two emitters, China and the United States

Canada's Sikh community is hoping Ottawa's shock accusations against India -- that New Delhi may have been involved in the assassination of one of their leaders on Canadian soil -- will be just the first dramatic step taken against alleged "Indian interference"

A strong earthquake shook New Zealand's South Island on Wednesday, startling people but resulting in no reports of injury or damage

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will visit China from tomorrow, his office said, his first trip to the allied country since before the Syrian civil war broke out more than 12 years ago.

France was accused of an “unacceptable” attack on press freedom yesterday after a journalist was arrested for reporting on leaked documents that claimed French intelligence was used to target civilians in Egypt.

Officials in eastern Libya ordered journalists out of Derna yesterday, the morning after demonstrators staged a rally and torched the home of the ousted mayor in fury over the authorities’ failure to protect the city from floods.

Dozens of Chinese warplanes were detected around Taiwan in a day, the self-ruled island’s defence ministry said yesterday, as it called on Beijing to stop its “provocative actions”.

A boat carrying around a hundred passengers sank on a river in northern Myanmar yesterday morning, local media reported, with dozens feared missing.

Joe Biden, America’s oldest ever president, said Monday he understood a focus on his age but that he was running for re-election because Donald Trump wanted to “destroy” US democracy.

US President Joe Biden yesterday appealed to world leaders at the UN General Assembly to stand with Ukraine against Russian invaders, hoping Republicans in Congress will also take notice.

President Vladimir Putin will meet China’s Xi Jinping for talks in Beijing in October, Russia said yesterday, Putin’s first known trip abroad since an arrest warrant was issued against him over the deportation of children from Ukraine.

Ukraine told the UN’s highest court in The Hague yesterday that Russia justified waging war against Ukraine by invoking “a terrible lie”, namely that Moscow’s invasion was to stop an alleged genocide.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a wartime trip to the United Nations yesterday urged the world to stand firm against Russia’s “genocide,” as he told skeptical developing nations they had a stake in Kyiv’s victory.

Azerbaijan today launched a military operation against the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region and demanded the total withdrawal of Armenian forces from the disputed mountainous territory as a precondition for peace..Fears of a fresh war have been growing in recent months, with Armenia accus

US President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders at the UN General Assembly today to stand with Ukraine against Russian invaders, hoping Republicans in Congress will also take notice

Online platform X could introduce a monthly fee for all users, its owner Elon Musk said Monday, citing the need to cut down on bots.

Dozens of crocodiles that escaped a flooded Chinese farm have all been recaptured, state media reported on Tuesday, a week after the reptilian runaways wriggled free.

A senior Canadian diplomat was ordered to leave India on Tuesday, New Delhi's foreign ministry said, hours after Ottawa expelled an Indian diplomat over the killing of a Sikh separatist near Vancouver

Canada on Monday accused India's government of involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh leader near Vancouver last June, and expelled New Delhi's intelligence chief in Ottawa in retaliation

A bus plummeted from the edge of a narrow mountain road in southeastern Peru on Monday, killing 25 people including two children, according to authorities