Facebook owner Meta has been fined a record 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) for transferring EU user data to the United States in breach of a previous court ruling, Ireland’s regulator announced yesterday.

A former Manipur MLA and two others were arrested with guns yesterday after violence flared up in state capital Imphal’s Chekon neighbourhood.

Greece’s conservatives were set to be offered an opportunity to form a coalition after winning the weekend’s election, but without enough seats to deliver on their pledge to rule on their own, a second vote in June looks all but certain.

At least 20 people were killed and several injured Sunday in a school dormitory fire in Guyana, the government said in a statement, with the nation’s president calling it a “major disaster.”

Sudan’s army conducted air strikes in the capital Khartoum yesterday, residents said, seeking to win ground against its paramilitary rivals hours before a week-long ceasefire aimed at allowing delivery of aid was due to take effect.

Israeli forces killed three Palestinian fighters yesterday in a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, in what the army described as an operation targeting “terrorist” suspects.

At least 20 people were killed Sunday in a school dormitory fire in Guyana, the government said in a statement, with the nation's president calling it a "major disaster."

Russian forces targeted the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro overnight with 16 missiles and 20 attack drones, the Ukrainian army said Monday.

The second-ever private mission to the International Space Station (ISS), organized by Axiom Space, blasted off from the southern US state of Florida Sunday, carrying the first two Saudi astronauts to travel to the orbiting laboratory

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has told Al Jazeera he does not “have a problem” with the country’s army chief but accused Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir of trying to stop him from returning to power.

Five Iranian border guards were killed yesterday during clashes with an armed group in the restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, state media reported.

US President Joe Biden yesterday said the Group of Seven nations were agreed in their approach to China and the need to diversify their supply chains so they are not dependent on one country.

Residents of Sudan’s capital again awoke to heavy clashes yesterday morning just hours after rival generals agreed to an upcoming one-week ceasefire amid ongoing talks in Saudi Arabia.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said yesterday that it was time to reform both the Security Council and Bretton Woods to align with the “realities of today’s world”.

Leaders of the world’s richest democracies said yesterday they would not back down from supporting Ukraine, in a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin as he claimed to have taken the eastern city of Bakhmut, something Kyiv denied.

Greece went to the polls yesterday in a general election unlikely to produce a clear winner, with a second vote expected by July if the country’s fractious political parties fail to agree to a coalition.

Three men died yesterday in an assault rifle attack in the French port city of Marseille, which has seen a surge of drug-related gang murders in recent months, police said.

Gurkha veteran Hari Budha Magar, who was almost killed serving with the British army in Afghanistan, has become the first double above-the-knee amputee to climb Everest, a member of his team said yesterday.

Twelve people were killed and hundreds injured Saturday in a stampede at an El Salvador soccer stadium, police and emergency services said.

Ukraine said on Sunday that it was still fighting for control of the eastern city of Bakhmut, after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had said earlier that the city remained "only in our hearts"