A 12-year-old boy was shot and killed as he sat in a parked car Thursday night in New York City, police said, shining a light on surging gun violence in the US megacity.

Russia’s foreign minister yesterday praised India’s independent foreign policy stance on Ukraine, as he held talks with his Indian counterpart, a day after US deputy NSA warned New Delhi against trusting Moscow amid an ongoing border row with China.

London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, in a conversation with The Daily Star's UK correspondent today, shared his and the Greater London Authority’s (GLA) plans to observe the holy month of Ramadan.

Russia today said it has developed a system to trade in national currencies with countries like India and would intensify efforts to move away from the dollar-based payment system as visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar in New Delhi.

Inflation in Europe soared to another record, according to new EU figures released Friday, in a fresh sign that rising energy prices fueled by Russia’s war in Ukraine are squeezing consumers and adding pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates.

At least eight miners were killed and about 20 were injured on Friday when a shaft collapsed in a state-owned coal mine in southern Serbia, RTS state television reported.

Two of Ukraine's military helicopters struck a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod on Friday, a Russian official has said, making the first accusation of a Ukrainian air strike on Russian soil since Moscow invaded its neighbour in late February.

Russia said a humanitarian corridor would be opened Friday (April 1) morning to allow civilians out of the besieged port city of Mariupol in south-eastern Ukraine.

Nato is not seeing a pull-back of Russian forces in Ukraine and expects “additional offensive actions,” the alliance’s chief Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday.

Afghanistan’s economy risks falling into a “death spiral” without urgent aid, with some Afghans already forced to sell their children and body parts to survive, UN

The US will bolster security in the Indo-Pacific region as threats are evolving, said US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas yesterday, while terming Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a wake-up call.

Americans will be allowed to choose an X for gender on their passport applications and select their sex on Social Security cards, the Biden administration said on Thursday in announcing measures to support transgender Americans against wave of state laws targeting them.

The United States today said there will be consequences for those countries which do business with Russia by circumventing sanctions imposed on that country following the invasion of Ukraine, Indian media reported quoted US Deputy National Security Advisor Daleep Singh now in New Delhi.

Russia said on Thursday it had greatly expanded the number of European Union officials, lawmakers, public figures and journalists barred from Russia for allegedly being responsible for sanctions and stoking anti-Russian feelings.

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned "unfriendly" countries, including all EU members, that they would be cut off from Russian gas unless they opened an account in roubles to pay for deliveries.

A Turkish prosecutor called on Thursday for the trial in Istanbul of Saudi suspects over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to be halted and transferred to Saudi authorities, a move which comes as Turkey seeks to mend ties with Riyadh.

US intelligence officials have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misinformed by advisers about his military’s poor performance in Ukraine, according to the White House. The advisers are scared to tell him the truth, the intel says.

The first trial on US soil of an alleged major figure in the Islamic State (IS) group -- an accused member of the kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles” -- will begin in earnest Wednesday near Washington.

Iran has once again denied women entry to a football stadium to watch an international match, leaving hundreds of ticketed fans locked out, Iranian media said.

Two UK Supreme Court judges yesterday resigned from Hong Kong’s top court, as the government in London said it was “no longer tenable” for its judges to serve in the former colony.