More than 30 children were reunited with their families in Ukraine this weekend after a long operation to bring them back home from Russia or Russian-occupied Crimea, where they had been taken from areas occupied by Russian forces during the war

Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials in Germany that brought Nazi war criminals to justice after World War Two and a longtime apostle of international criminal law, died on Friday at age 103, NBC News reported, citing his son

Gunmen abducted at least 80 people, mostly women and children, in Nigeria’s Zamfara state, a hotspot for kidnappings for ransom by armed gangs targeting remote villages, residents said yesterday.

The US Navy yesterday said a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine was operating in the Middle East in support of the Bahrain-based US Fifth Fleet.

North Korea claimed yesterday it had tested another underwater nuclear attack drone, its latest response to joint US-South Korea military drills, though analysts have questioned whether Pyongyang has such a weapon.

In the first official visit from Ukraine since the Russian invasion of that country more than a year ago, Ukrainian first Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova will undertake a four-day visit to India from tomorrow to exchange views on the current situation in Ukraine and bilateral relations.

Iranian authorities are installing cameras in public places and thoroughfares to identify and penalise unveiled women, the police announced yesterday.

Israel began calling up police and army reservists yesterday after separate attacks killed three people, including an Italian tourist, in Tel Aviv and the occupied West Bank.

A huge black hole is tearing through space, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long trail of newborn stars, space scientists said.

Russia or pro-Russian elements are likely behind the leak of several classified US military documents posted on social media that offer a partial, month-old snapshot of the war in Ukraine, three US officials told Reuters on Friday.

Thirty-one children have been brought back to Ukraine after being illegally taken to Russia from territories occupied by Moscow, a charity said yesterday.

At least 74 people were killed in Nigeria's Benue state in two separate attacks by gunmen this week, local officials and police said on Saturday, the latest clashes in an area where violence between pastoralists and farmers is common.

Russian Federal Security Service investigators have formally charged Evan Gershkovich with espionage but the Wall Street Journal reporter denied the charges and said he was working as a journalist, domestic news agencies said on Friday..Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on March

In a further attempt to rein in increasing numbers of women defying the compulsory dress code, Iranian authorities are installing cameras in public places and thoroughfares to identify and penalise unveiled women, the police announced on Saturday

Eighteen countries, including Bangladesh and India, have agreed on a regional strategy on accelerating rail digital transformation in a bid to boost train connectivity among them under the framework of Trans-Asian Rail Network spanning Asia and Europe

An Italian tourist was killed and five other tourists were wounded in a Tel Aviv car ramming attack on Friday, Israeli and Italian officials said

China launched military drills around Taiwan on Saturday, in what it called a "stern warning" to the self-ruled island's government following a meeting between its president and the US House speaker

"A national defence science research institute in the DPRK carried out a test of underwater strategic weapon system from April 4 to 7"

Russian forces have very likely seized the centre of the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and are threatening a key supply route for Ukrainian forces to the west, British intelligence said yesterday.

More than 30 people were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province earlier this week in attacks attributed to a rebel group affiliated with the Islamic State jihadist group, the United Nations said Thursday.