Three astronauts successfully docked with China’s new space station yesterday on what is set to be Beijing’s longest crewed mission to date and the latest landmark in its drive to become a major space power.

Iran is not ready to return to talks with world powers over its nuclear programme yet and its new negotiating team wants to first meet with the EU in Brussels in the next few weeks, a senior EU official has said.

Russia yesterday topped 1,000 deaths over 24 hours for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with the

The World Trade Organization said Friday its member nations had again failed to agree to suspend intellectual property rights for

The Islamic State group yesterday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a Shia mosque in the southern Afghan city of

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The fatal stabbing of British lawmaker David Amess was a terrorist incident, police said yesterday, as MPs pressed for tougher security in the wake of the second killing of a UK politician while meeting constituents in just over five years.

In the backdrop of repeated calls by dissident senior party leaders for an organizational overhaul, India’s main opposition party Congress yesterday announced it would have election for a president between August 21 and September 20 next year as Rahul Gandhi reportedly said he would consider returning as party head.

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi set out his Taliban worries to world leaders this week, Indian forces staged raids and battled Kashmir militants who he fears could be emboldened by the Islamists’ victory in Afghanistan.

The Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s government yesterday said it had killed 160 Huthi rebels in strikes south of the strategic city of Marib, where loyalists say rebels have made advances.

The Taliban will announce a framework that allows girls to attend school in Afghanistan “soon,” a senior United Nations official said, after four weeks in which Afghan boys have been allowed a secondary education but girls have not.

Nasa launched a spacecraft called Lucy on a 12-year mission to explore Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids for the first time yesterday, gathering new insights into the solar system’s formation.

1973 - The Arab-dominated Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announces a decision to cut oil exports to the United States and other nations that provided military aid to Israel in the Yom Kippur War.

Russia reported a record 1,002 deaths from coronavirus on Saturday, the first time the daily number has passed the 1,000-mark since the start of the pandemic.

The Pentagon has offered unspecified condolence payments to the family of 10 civilians who were killed in a botched US drone attack in Afghanistan in August during the final days before American troops withdrew from the country.

A long-serving member of Parliament was stabbed to death Friday during a meeting with constituents at a church in England, in what police said was a terrorist incident. A 25-year-old man was arrested in connection with the attack, which united Britain’s fractious politicians in shock and sorrow.

UN chief Antonio Guterres asked to postpone a virtual meeting with Southeast Asian ministers at the last minute to avoid signalling any recognition of Myanmar’s military government by being in the same online room as the military’s envoy, United Nations diplomats have said.

Over two dozen nations resolved Thursday to battle collectively against the global and escalating threat posed by cyber-extortionists, following a Washington-led anti-ransomware summit.

Queen Elizabeth II has taken aim at world leaders who “talk” but “don’t do” enough about climate change, in an apparent jibe at those not attending the upcoming COP26 summit.

1946 - A number of top German Nazis were hanged at Nuremberg after being found guilty of war crimes. They included former foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.