Ten million children in west Africa’s central Sahel region are now in “extreme jeopardy” and desperately need humanitarian help due to worsening violence, the United Nations warned yesterday.

The Covid-19 pandemic could settle down this year to a point where it poses a threat similar to flu, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

Ukrainian forces continued to withstand Russian assaults yesterday on the ruined city of Bakhmut, as officials said China’s President Xi Jinping will travel to Moscow next week to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

SVB Financial Group said on Friday it filed for a court-supervised reorganisation under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to seek buyers for its assets, days after its former unit Silicon Valley Bank was taken over by US regulators

The International Criminal Court issued the warrant accusing Putin of being responsible for war crimes committed in Ukraine

The Covid-19 pandemic could settle down this year to a point where it poses a threat similar to flu, the World Health Organization said Friday

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday arrived in Niger for a rare visit to a country seen as a bastion of support for Western military operations in a jihadist-torn region where Russia is making inroads.

In a rare move, the Pentagon yesterday released a de-classified video showing Russia’s intercept of a US military surveillance drone downed over the Black Sea two days ago.

A man yesterday appeared in court accused of attempting to murder a woman because he believed she worked at Britain’s signals intelligence agency GCHQ.

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday rammed a controversial pension reform through parliament without a vote, deploying a rarely used constitutional power that risks inflaming protests.

Russia’s forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators said yesterday, also warning of possible crimes against humanity.

Armenia said yesterday it would appeal to the international community to help prevent “genocide” in Nagorno-Karabakh after criticising the role of Russian peacekeepers in the breakaway region in Azerbaijan.

An explosion at a coal mine in central Colombia has left 21 miners dead after 10 more bodies were found in the pit, President Gustavo Petro said yesterday.

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in a raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he will only meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan if Turkey withdraws troops from northern Syria, according to a Russian media interview published yesterday.

Nasa and the private aerospace company Axiom Space unveiled a prototype on Wednesday of the next-generation spacesuit that astronauts will wear on the next walk on the Moon.

Skytrax, a UK-based airline and airport review and ranking site, polls travellers from all over the world about their experiences at airports, including check-in, departures, and everything in between

The move is the most dramatic in a series of recent steps by US officials and legislators who have raised fears that TikTok's US user data could be passed on to China's government. ByteDance-owned TikTok has more than 100 million US users

The doctor who exposed China's cover-up of the SARS epidemic in 2003 has died aged 91, his family confirmed on Wednesday.

"Five departure flights were delayed for around less than 30 minutes during the period"