Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will speak before the end of the year, Russian state news agency TASS said yesterday, as the 10-month-old Ukraine war shows no signs of slowing down.

Six Kurdish-led security force members were killed in an Islamic State suicide attack yesterday on a security forces centre in Syria’s Raqqa, the chief of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, wrote on Twitter.

Russia yesterday placed a senior journalist with the Bellingcat investigative website on a wanted list, following his extensive reporting on Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine.

US emergency crews counted the grim costs of a colossal winter storm that brought Christmas chaos to millions, especially in hard-hit western New York, where the death toll reached 25 yesterday in what authorities described as a “war with mother nature.”

Christian Aid and ActionAid yesterday became the latest foreign aid groups to suspend operations in Afghanistan after the country’s Taliban rulers ordered all NGOs to stop women staff from working.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday said he sought India’s help with implementing a “peace formula” in a phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Ukraine on Monday called for Russia to be removed from the United Nations, where Moscow can veto any resolution as a permanent member of the Security Council.

Russian air defence troops downed a Ukrainian drone as it approached an air base in southern Russia and three people died after being struck by debris, Russian news agencies said today.

Four people have died and dozens more were injured after a passenger bus rolled over in western Canada, with authorities saying Sunday that icy roads were likely the cause..The accident occurred Saturday evening on a highway some 330 kilometers (200 miles) east of Vancouver in an area of B

A brutal winter storm brought Christmas Day danger and misery to millions of Americans Sunday as intense snow and frigid cold gripped parts of the eastern United States, with weather-related deaths rising to at least 31..A crisis situation was unfolding in Buffalo, in western New York, whe

Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine but Kyiv and its Western backers have refused to engage in talks, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired yesterday.

Middle-aged smokers are far more likely to report having memory loss and confusion than nonsmokers, and the likelihood of cognitive decline is lower for those who have quit, even recently, a new study has found.

At least 180 ethnic Rohingyas stranded at sea for weeks after leaving Bangladesh in November are feared dead, as their rickety boat is thought to have sunk this month, Reuters quoted the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) as saying.

Twitter Inc has restored a feature that promotes suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, after coming under pressure from some users and consumer safety groups over its removal.

More than 200,000 Americans woke up without power on Christmas morning as a days-long winter megastorm that hammered several eastern US states yesterday left more than 20 people dead.

A French man suspected of killing three people in a “racist” attack at a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris has been transferred to a psychiatric unit, prosecutors said, as police and demonstrators clashed in the French capital.

A broken-down boat carrying 57 Rohingya refugees landed on Indonesia’s western coast yesterday after a month at sea, police said.

Pope Francis called for an end to the war in Ukraine and other conflicts in his Christmas message yesterday, saying the world was suffering from a “famine of peace”.

More than 200,000 Americans woke up without power on Christmas morning as a days-long winter megastorm that hammered several eastern US states Sunday left more than 20 people dead.

Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine but Kyiv and its Western backers have refused to engage in talks, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired on Sunday.