The bodies of 46 dead migrants were discovered inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, city officials said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the US-Mexico border.

Two Russian missiles slammed into a crowded shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk yesterday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 40, the regional governor said.

President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are set to make contact in the “next few weeks,” a senior US official told reporters yesterday.

Elected leaders across the US political divide rallied Sunday for a long fight ahead on abortion -- state by state and in Congress -- with total bans

The United States, Israel and four Arab countries agreed to closer cooperation and annual foreign ministers’ meetings yesterday, two weeks

Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies and developing countries invited to their summit yesterday agreed to work together to accelerate the fight against climate change while ensuring their energy security, a statement said.

A long-delayed conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicked off in Lisbon yesterday, with the head of the UN saying the world’s seas are in crisis.

A Russian missile strike hit a crowded shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding 20, senior Ukrainian officials said.

In superhero blockbuster Aquaman, popular Hollywood actor Jason Momoa plays the role of protector of the deep, but with the world's oceans under threat in real life, he is also taking the fight off-screen.

The Group of Seven rich democracies will commit on Tuesday to a new package of coordinated actions meant to raise pressure on Russia over its war in Ukraine, and will finalise plans for a price cap on Russian oil, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.

Group of Seven leaders on Sunday pledged to raise $600 billion in private and public funds over five years to finance needed infrastructure in developing countries and counter China's older, multitrillion-dollar Belt and Road project.

Part of the wooden stands collapsed during a bullfight in central Colombia Sunday, sending spectators plunging to the ground and killing at least four people and injuring hundreds, authorities said.

Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations mocked the macho image of their absent adversary Vladimir Putin on Sunday, at a meeting in Germany dominated by the Russian President's invasion of Ukraine.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi arrived in Iran yesterday, Iranian state TV reported, a day after he travelled to Saudi Arabia in a bid to revive talks between the regional rivals to ease years of hostility.

The Spanish prime minister on Saturday described a deadly migrant rush on the enclave of Melilla from Morocco as an attack on Spain’s “territorial integrity”, as human rights activists demanded an investigation.

One man was left dead and three people were sent to hospital early yesterday in Montreal after stabbings by a 26-year-old who suffered a breakdown, Canadian police said.

At least 20 young people have died at a township pub in South Africa’s southern city of East London, but the cause of the deaths is still unclear.

Russian missiles hit an apartment block and kindergarten in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv yesterday, in strikes US President Joe Biden condemned as “barbarism” as world leaders gathered in Europe to discuss further sanctions against Moscow.

The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and the United States will hold four-way talks today on Iran’s nuclear programme, the French presidency said, with Tehran’s oil exports as one of the issues to be raised.

Monkeypox is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) ruled on Saturday, although WHO Director-General