Russian President Vladimir Putin said Turkey would pay for a quarter of its Russian natural gas imports in rubles under a new set of deals designed to boost trade.

Ukraine’s recent counter-offensive will not change Russia’s plans in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said as Moscow yesterday launched strikes on Ukrainian positions in several parts of the country.

At least 16 school children were killed died Friday when a minibus collided with a truck along a South African highway around 300 kilometres north of Durban, a regional government said.

One of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant’s four main power lines has been repaired and is once again supplying the plant with electricity from the Ukrainian grid two weeks after it went down, the UN nuclear watchdog said yesteraday.

Princes William and Harry stood vigil at either end of the coffin of their grandmother Queen Elizabeth yesterday, heads bowed as a line of mourners streamed past the late monarch’s lying-in-state. 

A young Iranian woman who fell into a coma after being arrested in Tehran by the notorious morality police died on Friday, state media and her family said, with activists urging those responsible for her “suspicious” death be brought to justice.

An Israeli airstrike near Damascus airport killed five Syria soldiers yesterday, Syrian state media said. “The aggression led to the death of five soldiers and some material damage,” Syria’s official news agency Sana quoted a military source as saying.

South Africa’s leader has agreed to cooperate closely with US President Joe Biden on health, security and climate but warned against punishing African nations for maintaining ties with Russia.

Queen Elizabeth II's death means that around 600 of her favourite brands risk losing their royal warrant and must now await the approval of her successor King Charles III.

China has blocked a proposal by the US and India at the United Nations to blacklist top Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant Sajid Mir, one of India’s most wanted terrorists and the main handler of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks that left 175 people dead.

Ukrainian investigators descended on a pine forest outside the recaptured town of Izyum yesterday and began pulling hundreds of hastily buried bodies from the sandy soil.

Five Lebanese banks were stormed yesterday by depositors seeking to unlock frozen savings, the latest in a string of “heists” in the crisis-hit country. Lebanon

The European Commission unveiled a raft of new rules yesterday to ensure media independence after growing fears of state meddling in eastern EU countries such as Hungary and Poland.

US President Joe Biden appealed Thursday for a united front against hate-crimes and political violence in a speech building on his bid to present himself as champion of moderate values at a time of rising extremism.

Stock markets fell further yesterday as weak UK retail sales data and a dire warning from global shipping giant FedEx fuelled fears of recession.

Nasa’s Perseverance Mars rover has detected its highest concentrations yet of organic molecules, in a potential signal of ancient microbes that scientists are eager to confirm when the rock samples are eventually brought to Earth.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping yesterday called for a shake-up of the world order as they met with Asian leaders for a summit challenging Western influence.

A US judge on Thursday named an independent arbiter to sort through thousands of documents seized from Donald Trump’s Florida estate and determine if any of them are protected by executive privilege.

The leaders of ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan met yesterday and ordered their forces to withdraw after deadly clashes along their disputed border raised fears of all-out conflict between the Central Asian nations.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today (September 16, 2022) met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Uzbek city of Samarkand for the first time since Russia-Ukraine conflict broke out in February and told him that it is not an era of war.