Mourners yesterday attended the funeral of a Palestinian killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, after the UN warned of a dramatic spike in such cases.

Three soldiers were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir during a clash with suspected rebels as the disputed region marked the fourth anniversary of New Delhi imposing direct rule, police said yesterday.

Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday said he had delayed his return to the kingdom next week, as he awaits a breakthrough in a post-election gridlock that could see his family’s party lead a coalition government.

At least 10 people were killed in floods in a city near Beijing, officials said yesterday, bringing the death toll from recent torrential rains in northern China to at least 30.

At least one man is in a serious condition after a shooting attack on a central street in Tel Aviv yesterday, Israeli police said.

Nasa has succeeded in re-establishing full contact with Voyager 2 by using its highest-power transmitter to send an “interstellar shout” that righted the distant probe’s antenna orientation, the space agency said.

Pakistan has a long history of incarcerating individuals who have held the country's top executive office

Thousands of people overran New York City's Union Square and the surrounding streets on Friday in a chaotic scene after a popular live streamer announced a "giveaway" event, with police struggling to contain fans throwing projectiles and injuring officers

Archaeologists in Serbia are painstakingly brushing sand and soil off the ancient woodwork of a Roman ship discovered by miners in a vast opencast coal quarry.

A Russian warship was seriously damaged in an overnight Ukrainian naval drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea navy base at Novorossiysk, two sources said yesterday, after Russia said it had fended off the attack.

Migrants are being systematically turned away by France at the border with Italy with “acts of violence, degrading and inhumane treatment”, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity said yesterday.

Six white Mississippi police officers tortured two innocent Black men using a sex toy, Tasers and a sword in an hours-long attack that ended with one man shot through the mouth and neck, the US Department of Justice said Thursday.

Facing ageing equipment and difficulties recruiting personnel, New Zealand’s military needs a revamp, the government said yesterday.

A West African delegation failed to secure the return to power of Niger’s elected government yesterday despite proposals to resolve the crisis as the junta curtailed military cooperation with former colonial power France.

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was sentenced yesterday to an additional 19 years in prison after being found guilty on a series of new charges, Navalny’s supporters said on social media.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon fell in July to its lowest level for the month since 2017, preliminary government figures showed on Thursday, boosting President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s stature on environmental policy ahead of a summit of rainforest nations.

Former US president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election and defraud the American people.

The world’s oceans set a temperature record in the past week, with their surface hitting 20.96 degrees Celsius (69.7 Fahrenheit), European Union climate observatory data showed yesterday.

Britain's King Charles will mark the first anniversary of the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II privately, British media reported Friday

The United Nations and Amnesty International today called on Bangladeshi authorities to refrain from excessive use of force amid recurring violence and mass arrests ahead of general elections