At least seven people were killed Sunday in south Texas and several others injured when a car plowed through a group waiting at a bus stop outside a migrant aid centre, police said

The UN’s top humanitarian official arrived in Saudi Arabia yesterday for ceasefire talks between Sudan’s warring generals, as gun battles and air strikes flared in the Sudanese capital at the start of a fourth week of fighting.

At least 27 workers have died in a fire at a gold mine in a remote area of southern Peru, authorities said yesterday.

Authorities in northwest Mexico rescued 113 kidnapped migrants of different nationalities from a building along the border with the United States, the state prosecutor’s office said.

A gunman shot and killed eight people and wounded at least seven others at a busy mall north of Dallas on Saturday, police said.

More than 14 million people tuned in to watch King Charles III’s coronation on BBC television, the corporation said yesterday.

Israel yesterday transferred a Jordanian member of parliament to Amman’s authorities, weeks after arresting him for attempting to smuggle pistols, rifles and gold into the occupied West Bank, officials said.

Vietnam has reported a record-high temperature, with climate experts warning such extreme weather events would continue.

Arab League foreign ministers adopted a decision to readmit Syria after more than a decade of suspension yesterday, a spokesperson for the League said, consolidating a regional push to normalise ties with President Bashar al-Assad.

A man was beaten to death by a mob after being accused of blasphemy at a rally for former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s party, officials said yesterday.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said yesterday that his “heart aches” over South Korea’s colonial-era suffering, as he hailed fresh efforts to mend Tokyo’s long-strained ties with Seoul at a landmark summit.

Russian paramilitary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said yesterday he had received “a promise” of more ammunition from the Russian army, after he threatened to pull his frontline Wagner troops out of Bakhmut.

At least 135 of the about 700 Bangladeshis, who were evacuated to Port Sudan from conflict-stricken Khartoum on May 3, were flown to Jeddah by three special aircrafts of Royal Saudi Air Force today

Alberta on Saturday declared a provincial state of emergency after tens of thousands of Albertans have been forced to evacuate their homes as "unprecedented" wildfires rage on in Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith, head of the ruling United Conservative Party (UCP) said at a press conference

A man who went on a rampage at a Texas outlet mall on Saturday shot dead eight people before he was himself killed, authorities said

Charles III was crowned monarch of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth realms yesterday at Britain’s first coronation for 70 years, during a ceremony steeped in a millennium of ritual and spectacle.

Seven United Nations peacekeepers were wounded in central Mali yesterday when a roadside bomb exploded under their convoy, said the UN force in the West African country (MINUSMA).

Iran yesterday hanged Swedish-Iranian dissident Habib Chaab for “terrorism”, drawing condemnation from Sweden, in the Islamic republic’s latest use of the death penalty against dual nationals.

Ukrainian air defences shot down a Russian hypersonic missile for the first time during an attack on the capital Kyiv this week, the Air Force said yesterday, in a potentially major setback for the Kremlin’s campaign of long-range air strikes.

Britons are more likely to say their views of the monarchy have worsened than improved over the past decade, according to a CNN poll, suggesting that King Charles III is facing serious challenges.