Russia’s former leader Dmitry Medvedev yesterday warned Israel against supplying weapons to Ukraine, saying any move to bolster Kyiv’s forces would severely damage bilateral ties.

Iran yesterday vowed an “immediate” response to the European Union as it prepares new sanctions on the Islamic republic after over a month of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death.

British lawmakers will try to oust Prime Minister Liz Truss this week, a report said yesterday, as the government axed almost all of its debt-fuelled tax cuts unveiled last month to avert fresh markets chaos, in another humiliating blow for the embattled PM.

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Three Bangladeshi tourists of a family were killed in a head-on collision in Australia's Canberra on Sunday (October 16, 2022).

Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with drones on Monday, killing at least three people in an apartment building in downtown Kyiv during morning rush hour, and targeting infrastructure across the country in a second large wave of air strikes in a week.

Waves of explosive-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine’s capital Monday, setting buildings ablaze and sending people scurrying for shelter or attempting to shoot down the kamikazes — a week after Russia unleashed its most widespread strikes against the country in months.

Kyiv was attacked by "kamikaze drones" early Monday, the Ukrainian president's chief of staff Andriy Yermak said after several explosions were heard in the central Shevchenkivsky district of the capital.

Russia’s defence ministry yesterday said its forces had repelled efforts by Ukrainian troops to advance in the Donetsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, inflicting what it described as significant losses against the enemy.

Ninety-two migrants were found almost naked and bruised after allegedly being forced across the Evros river from Turkey into Greece, Athens said yesterday.

Iraqi authorities are investigating the “theft” of $2.5 billion from the tax authority, officials said yesterday, in the latest corruption case to hit the country.

Twelve people were killed in a shooting at a bar in central Mexico on Saturday, local authorities said, with growing cartel violence making the region one of the country’s most dangerous.

President Joe Biden has “no plans” to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at an upcoming G20 summit in Indonesia, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said yesterday.

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian during a clash in the occupied West Bank and he later died of his wounds, Palestinian health officials said yesterday.

Pope Francis said the need to reform the United Nations was “more than obvious” after the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war exposed its limits, in an extract of his new book published yesterday.

Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss yesterday vied to reboot her economic programme, but Conservative critics warned the party faces electoral oblivion under her crippled leadership.

A fire at Iran’s Evin prison late on Saturday killed four detainees and injured 61, state media reported, as anti-government protests sparked by a woman’s death in police custody continued yesterday, including at several universities.

President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday blamed his U.S. counterpart for inciting "chaos, terror, and destruction" in Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported, amid protests that have rocked the country for the past four weeks.

A fire at Iran's Evin prison late on Saturday killed four detainees and injured 61, state media reported, as anti-government protests sparked by a woman's death in police custody continued on Sunday, including at several universities.

Greek police have rescued a group of 92 migrants close to its northern border with Turkey.