The Islamic Republic hanged a man in public on Monday who had been convicted of killing two members of security forces, the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported, the second execution linked to anti-government protests in less than a week.

Three women including a friend of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni were killed on Sunday when a man pulled out a gun and opened fire at a meeting of residents of an apartment block in Rome.

More than 11,000 children are known to have been killed or maimed in Yemen's civil war since it escalated nearly eight years ago, the United Nations said Monday.."The true toll of this conflict is likely to be far higher," said the children's agency UNICEF about the casualties of the world

Protests against Peru's new government turned deadly on Sunday, with two people killed as police clashed with angry demonstrators calling for a national strike, fresh elections and the release of detained former president Pedro Castillo.

Doctors in Britain have hailed a pioneering treatment for an aggressive form of leukaemia, after a teenager became the first patient to be given a new therapy and went into remission.

Heavy gunfire and artillery shelling by Afghan border forces killed six civilians across the border in Pakistan yesterday and wounded another 17, the Pakistan army said.

A Japanese startup’s spacecraft was launched to the Moon yesterday in the country’s first-ever lunar mission and the first of its kind by a private company.

Russia launched what it calls a special military operation in Ukraine because its concerns around peace accords between Kyiv and Russian-backed separatists were ignored, Russian news agencies quoted the Kremlin spokesman as saying yesterday.

A high-level US delegation will travel to China next week to follow up on President Joe Biden’s recent talks with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and prepare for Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit there early next year, the US State Department said on Saturday.

Britain’s government yesterday rallied to the defence of the beleaguered royal family after a new racism row and explosive Netflix documentary.

Russia’s ex-president Dmitry Medvedev yesterday said the country was ramping up production of new-generation weapons to protect itself from enemies in Europe, the United States and Australia.

The world’s next global pact for nature is doomed without clear mechanisms for implementing targets, conservation groups said Saturday on the sidelines of UN talks, as hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Montreal demanding greater action.

The US government is sending its first high-level delegation to China since a pledge made last month by Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden to repair frayed relations.

Peru's first female President, Dina Boluarte, swore in her cabinet on Saturday and asked each minister to pledge not to be corrupt while in office.

The southern Ukrainian city of Odesa was left without power yesterday following a night-time attack by “kamikaze drones” launched by Russia, authorities said, as the US announced new military aid for Kyiv and vowed to disrupt Russian ties with Iran.

One person was killed and several others were missing after a “devastating” explosion yesterday flattened a three-storey apartment block in Jersey, authorities said.

The EU’s drug watchdog warned on Friday that antibody treatments for Covid are ineffective against the newest and increasingly dominant strains of the disease.

A German humanitarian worker held hostage in the Sahel for more than four-and-a-half years has been freed, his organisation said yesterday.

Russia’s war in Ukraine, chaos in Haiti and rising violence by criminal groups in Mexico have contributed to a rise in the number of journalists killed doing their work in 2022, according to a new report by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).

The United States said Friday it was pressing the United Nations not to update a blacklist of companies doing business in Israeli settlements, despite Washington’s calls on its ally to stop expansion in occupied Palestinian territory.