A US-brokered ceasefire between Sudan’s warring generals was largely holding in much of the capital yesterday, but witnesses in some areas reported ongoing clashes between the army and paramilitary forces.

Donald Trump went on trial on Tuesday, where the writer E. Jean Carroll accuses the former U.S. president in a civil lawsuit of raping her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

Harry Belafonte, a singer, songwriter and groundbreaking actor who started his entertainment career belting “Day O” in his 1950s hit song “Banana Boat” before turning to political activism, has died at the age of 96..Belafonte died of congestive heart failure at his home in New York on T

US President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he is running for re-election in 2024, plunging at the record age of 80 into a ferocious new White House campaign "to finish the job."

A Palestinian man drove his car into a crowd on a Jerusalem street on Monday, injuring five people before being shot dead by a passerby, Israeli police said

The family left after a rocket hit Waleed's family home in Khartoum's Al Amarat district on April 18, destroying the bathroom, as fighting raged between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)

A US-brokered 72-hour ceasefire between Sudan's warring generals officially came into effect Tuesday after 10 days of urban combat killed hundreds, wounded thousands and sparked a mass exodus of foreigners

The death toll in a case involving a Kenyan cult that practised starvation climbed to 73 Monday, police sources told AFP as investigators unearthed more corpses from mass graves in a forest near the coast

At least 12 people, mostly policemen, were killed by multiple explosions caused by a fire in a munitions cache in a Pakistan police station on Monday, officials said

The UK conducted its first test of a new emergency alert service on Sunday, with millions of mobile phones emitting a loud alarm and vibrating.

Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met Myanmar’s military ruler yesterday, media reported, part of a trip aimed at promoting peace in a country racked by conflict since a coup two years ago. Ban made the surprise visit late on Sunday, according to

The bodies of a total of 34 migrants have been recovered since their boat sank off Libya’s coast five days ago, the Libyan Red Crescent said yesterday. The latest toll follows the recovery of 11 bodies yesterday, which were “handed over to authorities” in

Australia launched its biggest defence overhaul in decades yesterday, vowing to turn a military that is “no longer fit for purpose” into a fighting force that could deter China or any would-be foe.

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet repelled a drone attack on the Crimean port of Sevastopol in the early hours of yesterday, the Moscow-installed governor of the city said through social media.

In a forest in southern Chile, a giant tree has survived for thousands of years and is in the process of being recognised as the oldest in the world.

Foreign nations yesterday pushed on with frantic evacuations of their citizens from chaos-torn Sudan, where heavy fighting raged for a 10th day between forces loyal to two rival generals.

Global military spending grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2022 to an all-time high of $2.24 trillion, with a sharp rise in Europe, chiefly due to Russian and Ukrainian expenditure, a Swedish think tank said yesterday.

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man yesterday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, during what the army described as a “counterterrorism” operation.

The armed forces of the United States and the United Kingdom have evacuated embassy staff from Sudan, while other nations rushed to get their citizens to safety as rival military factions battled in the capital Khartoum on Sunday

About 60 civilians were killed in a village in northern Burkina Faso by men wearing military uniforms, the local prosecutor said late Sunday, announcing an investigation into the latest bloodshed in the insurgency-hit country