More than 200 elephants and hundreds of zebras and gnus have died in Kenya’s worst drought in four decades, the country’s tourism minister

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi yesterday dismissed a pledge from US leader Joe Biden to “free Iran” as the clerical regime faced a new upsurge in protests seven weeks into the anti-regime movement.

Veteran hawk Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday launched negotiations with his ultra-Orthodox and far-right allies on forming what could be the most right-wing government in Israel’s history, raising concerns at home and abroad.

Myanmar’s military has begun taking delivery of a batch of Russian-made combat jets, a monitoring group said yesterday, the latest hardware shipped from Moscow as rights campaigners accuse the junta of hitting civilians with air strikes.

South Korea’s military yesterday scrambled stealth jets after detecting the mobilisation of 180 North Korean warplanes, Seoul said, following a record-breaking blitz of missile tests by Pyongyang this week.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz yesterday condemned threats to use atomic weapons in Ukraine, with Scholz warning that Russia risked “crossing a line” in the international community by resorting to nuclear force.

Israel Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu on his election win as final results confirmed the former premier's triumphant comeback at the head of a solidly right-wing alliance.

The G7 is ready to recognise China as a “competitor” and “rival” as Japan prepares to take over the presidency of the group of nations, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said yesterday.

Pope Francis, leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, departed yesterday for the Gulf state of Bahrain to foster ties with Islam in a trip overshadowed by criticism of human rights abuses.

The world is falling far short at rounding up money to help struggling nations adapt to the increasingly dangerous impacts of climate change, according to a report released yesterday.

Grain ships left Ukraine’s ports yesterday, a day after Russia rejoined an international agreement to guarantee their safe passage through the Black Sea.

Almost eight million people in South Sudan, or two thirds of the population in the deeply-troubled country, are at risk of hunger, the United Nations warned in a report yesterday.

Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said, including an Islamic Jihad militant and a man accused by police of stabbing an officer.

Iranians yesterday staged new protest actions in defiance of a crackdown by the authorities as a rights group said an 18-year-old became the latest teen killed

Brazil’s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro asked participants in what he said were “legitimate” protests to “unblock the roads” and demonstrate elsewhere

The Palestinian health ministry identified the dead man as Habas Rayan, 54.

Russia said yesterday it would resume its participation in a deal to free up vital grain exports from war-torn Ukraine after suspending it over the weekend in a move that had threatened to exacerbate hunger across the world.

Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global average over the past three decades, showing the fastest rise of any continent on earth, the UN said yesterday.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday “authorized” the transition to a new government, without acknowledging his defeat to leftist rival

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday announced he will join the UN climate conference in Egypt after all, having provoked anger for