Ukraine said yesterday its troops had advanced by more than a kilometre near the eastern city of Bakhmut in the past day of fighting against Russian forces.

Gunmen from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces were accused of attacking a remote town yesterday before going on a shooting and looting rampage that witnesses said “terrorised” its people.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday appeared to leave open the possibility of backing Sweden’s Nato candidacy, saying Turkey would “make the best decision, whatever it is” at next week’s alliance summit.

At least 50 people, including eight children, have been killed by floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains that have lashed Pakistan since last month, officials said yesterday.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon fell 34 percent in the first half of 2023, preliminary government data showed on Thursday, hitting its lowest level in four years as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva institutes tougher environmental policies.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague rejected on Thursday India’s objections to a Pakistan-initiated procedure over water use in the Indus River basin, reopening a procedure that had been blocked for many years.

The snaking queues for food and fuel that crisscrossed Sri Lanka last year have given way to a different kind of line -- people scrambling for travel documents to flee their bankrupt island.

The United States announced yesterday that it would send Ukraine widely-banned cluster munitions as part of a security assistance package, a move Ukraine said would have an “extraordinary psycho-emotional impact” on occupying Russian forces.

Israeli security forces yesterday killed two Palestinians suspected of carrying out a shooting attack against police this week, Israel’s military said.

Human Rights Watch yesterday urged Tunisia to put an end to what it called the “collective expulsions” of Black African migrants to a desert area near the Libyan border.

AI-powered robotic vehicles could deliver food parcels to conflict and disaster zones by as early as next year in a move aimed to spare the lives of humanitarian workers, a World Food Programme (WFP) official told Reuters.

The International Maritime Organization, overseer of the highly-polluting shipping industry, sealed a landmark deal yesterday to improve its target to cut carbon emissions but green campaigners said it fell far short.

The International Monetary Fund will seek the support of Pakistan’s political parties, including former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party, for a recently announced $3 billion bailout programme, as the country prepares for national elections, the lender said yesterday.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen yesterday called for market reforms in China and criticized the world’s second-largest economy for its recent tough actions against US companies and new export controls on some critical minerals.

A panel of AI-enabled humanoid robots took the microphone on Friday at a United Nations conference with the message: they could eventually run the world better than humans

Six people have died and at least 68 have been injured following an overnight fire in a retirement home in Milan, Italian emergency services said today

The company that operated the sub which imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck, killing all five people aboard, said Thursday it had halted all activities indefinitely

Two rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward Israel yesterday, prompting cross-border strikes by the Israeli military, sources on both sides said.

A Russian missile slammed into a residential building in Lviv in western Ukraine yesterday, killing five people in a city that is far from frontlines and home to thousands displaced by war.

EU lawmakers yesterday pushed for an independent probe into a migrant boat tragedy off Greece in which hundreds of people are believed to have died, calling an internal investigation by Athens inadequate.