North Korea said its second attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit failed on Thursday, three months after the first one crashed into the ocean shortly after launch

President Vladimir Putin yesterday used a speech to a summit of BRICS leaders to defend Russia’s war in Ukraine and praise the grouping as a counterbalance to US global dominance.

Leaders of the BRICS bloc of leading developing countries have agreed mechanisms for considering new members, South Africa said yesterday, paving the way for dozens of interested nations to join the group which has pledged to champion the “Global South”.

India yesterday became the first nation to land a craft near the Moon’s south pole, a historic triumph for the world’s most populous nation and its ambitious, cut-price space programme.

Russian drones struck Ukrainian grain facilities at the Danube River port of Izmail overnight in what a senior official said yesterday was a systematic attempt by Moscow to prevent Kyiv exporting grain to the world.

A railway bridge being built in India collapsed yesterday killing at least 26 workers and injuring two, police said, as the state-run railway authority opened an investigation.

A Hong Kong court yesterday granted the government permission to lodge another attempt to ban an anthem that emerged from 2019 pro-democracy protests, after rejecting the bid last month.

Sudanese paramilitaries fought the regular army in Khartoum yesterday as they targeted a key military base in the south of the capital for the fourth consecutive day, witnesses said.

At least 1,100 people are still missing two weeks after deadly wildfires ravaged the Hawaiian island of Maui, authorities said Tuesday, with the FBI seeking family members’ help in identifying the remains of the dead.

Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed as a passenger on a private jet which crashed yesterday evening north of Moscow with no survivors, the Russian authorities said.

The German cabinet yesterday approved plans to shorten the path to citizenship for immigrants and allow more people to have dual nationality.

The German cabinet yesterday approved plans to shorten the path to citizenship for immigrants and allow more people to have dual nationality.

Greek firefighters yesterday struggled to contain uncontrolled fires throughout the country for a fifth day, several of them bordering an acrid, smoke-filled Athens.

Thailand’s new prime minister vowed to bring four years of change to the kingdom as he took office yesterday.

Some Western media reported Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia's Wagner Group mercenary force, died in the plane crash near Moscow

China on Tuesday threw its weight behind plans to expand the loosely-defined BRICS club of large emerging economies, which is seeking to assert its political and economic clout on the global stage

At least 1,100 people are still missing two weeks after deadly wildfires ravaged the Hawaiian island of Maui, authorities said Tuesday, with the FBI seeking family members' help in identifying the remains of the dead

The UAE's Ministry of Economy hasimposed administrative penalties on 225 companies with value of about 76.9 million dirhams (Tk 229.57 crore) this year to combat money laundering and terror financing, reports the UAE-based Khaleej Times

Thailand's former premier Thaksin Shinawatra was moved from prison to a police hospital on Wednesday, officials said, a day after he was jailed on his return from 15 years in exile

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