An al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group has claimed responsibility for an attack that wounded members of the UN’s peacekeeping force in Mali, which is pulling out of the country, monitors said.

A local politician in Ecuador was killed Monday, party officials said, less than a week after a presidential front-runner was gunned down at a campaign rally ahead of this weekend’s elections.

Rescuers have recovered 25 bodies while 14 people remain missing after a landslide at an unregulated jade mine in a remote region of Myanmar, emergency workers said yesterday.

Myanmar authorities have arrested nearly 150 Rohingyas suspected of trying to flee the country, an official told AFP yesterday.

Rescuers yesterday searched for people feared missing in floods and landslides that have killed at least 65 in India, including 11 who died in the collapse of a popular temple.

At least 35 people were killed in an explosion that created a huge fire ball at a fuel station in Russia’s remote Caucasus republic of Dagestan, spurring condolences from President Vladimir Putin yesterday.

Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yesterday, in the first deadly raid in the Jericho area for months.

Russian air strikes hit two western regions of Ukraine bordering Nato member Poland and other areas yesterday, killing three people and wounding more than a dozen, Ukrainian officials said.

Turkish investigative journalist Baris Pehlivan, who was ordered to return to prison by text message this month, was jailed yesterday for the fifth time in three years.

British police said yesterday they had charged two men and a woman with identity document offences after the BBC reported the group were accused of spying for Russia.

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged letters yesterday pledging to develop their ties into what Kim called a “long-standing strategic relationship,” Pyongyang’s state media KCNA said.

India and China have agreed to resolve the remaining issues along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the unresolved border between them, in eastern Ladakh of the Himalayas in an expeditious manner

Torrential rain in India's Himalayas triggered landslides over the weekend that have killed over 50 people, with the death toll expected to rise as more than 20 remain trapped or missing, officials said on Monday.

As global interest in the war-torn country diminishes, many Afghans feel abandoned. In the two years since the Taliban retook control they have imposed draconian restrictions on society, especially women and girls

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the situation in Manipur, which witnessed violence and attacks on the dignity of women, is improving and expressed confidence that there will be a peaceful resolution of the problems there

Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday on charges of racketeering and a string of election crimes after a sprawling, two-year probe into his efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat to Joe Biden in the US state of Georgia

At least 33 people were killed in an explosion and fire at a petrol station in Russia's Caucasus republic of Dagestan, the health ministry said Tuesday, updating a previous toll

The death toll in Hawaii from the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century ticked towards 100 Sunday, fuelling criticism that government inaction contributed to the heavy loss of life.

India’s market regulator yesterday sought 15 more days to complete a probe into conglomerate Adani’s dealings with some offshore entities, while shares in the group’s firms slid after the surprise exit of a key business unit’s auditor.

Russia will deliver an order of S-400 anti-aircraft systems to India within the agreed timeframe, Interfax news agency quoted a senior Russian defence export official yesterday as saying.