Russian forces have destroyed Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow and its Black Sea Fleet, officials said, the latest in a surge of attacks on the capital and the flashpoint waterway.

More than four million Yemenis will receive less food assistance as a result of funding shortages, compounding one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, the UN’s food agency warned yesterday.

Fighting between two rival generals has spread to cities in war-ravaged Sudan’s south, witnesses said yesterday, raising concerns for hundreds of thousands who have fled violence in the Darfur region.

US President Joe Biden was set to announce new security cooperation with Japan and South Korea yesterday, including joint exercises at a first-of-a-kind three-way summit with their leaders that has already rattled China.

North Korea was accused at the UN Security Council Thursday of spending heavily on its nuclear arms program while its people go hungry and lack basic necessities.

A light plane crashed into a four-lane road near Malaysia's capital on Thursday, killing eight people on board and two motorists on the ground, the local police chief said

A strong earthquake followed by dozens of aftershocks rattled central Colombia and the capital Bogota on Thursday, setting off sirens and sparking brief panic, including in one woman who died after jumping from a building, authorities said.

A man was arrested in Paris yesterday after jumping off the Eiffel Tower with a parachute, police and the monument’s operator said

The Ukrainian military yesterday claimed more success in its counter-offensive against Russian forces on the southeastern front, a day after announcing the liberation of a village that had served as a Russian strongpoint.

More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying mostly Senegalese migrants capsized off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean.

Germany’s biggest airport was scrambling to book passengers on new flights yesterday after a massive storm caused dozens of cancellations, and also triggered flooding that deluged streets and toppled trees.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian preached unity and dialogue during a visit to Saudi Arabia yesterday, his first since the two Middle East rivals announced a surprise rapprochement in March.

Russian security forces yesterday launched mass raids targeting the independent election monitoring group Golos, the group said, as its co-chair was taken in for questioning.

Thousands ordered to flee wildfires advancing on one of the largest cities in Canada’s far north crammed into a local airport yesterday to board emergency evacuation flights, as convoys snaked south to safety on the only open highway.

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian gunman during a raid that set off clashes in the flashpoint town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, medical officials and militant groups said.

A total of 62 humanitarian aid workers have died this year around the world, the United Nations said Thursday as it prepared to mark 20 years since a devastating attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad.

India today took an important step to try and become the first country to land a spacecraft on the moon’s south pole when the lander module of its third unmanned lunar mission successfully separated from the propulsion module in its final lunar journey

Ten people were charged yesterday after police conducted simultaneous raids across Singapore as part of an investigation into money laundering and forgery offences

The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday said there was a complete ban on activities of political parties in Afghanistan

South Korea's Ministry of Education on Wednesday unveiled a five-year plan aimed at attracting 300,000 international students to tackle the nation's rapidly declining school-age population and to strengthen the competitiveness of local universities already reeling from enrollment shortages