Lebanon buried the victims of its deadliest sectarian unrest in years yesterday after gunfire gripped central Beirut for hours and revived the ghosts of the civil war.

The deteriorating security situation in Colombia represents a “considerable challenge” to the country’s 2016 peace accords, the United Nations said Thursday at a Security Council meeting.

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who had been throwing incendiary bottles in the West Bank on Thursday night, Israel’s army said.

The Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s government said yesterday it had killed more than 180 Huthi rebels in strikes south of the strategic city of Marib.

Armenia said yesterday that six of its soldiers had been injured by Azerbaijani forces in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which was at the centre of a war last year.

A British lawmaker from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was stabbed to death yesterday in a church by a man who attacked him at a meeting with voters from his electoral district.

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz yesterday took a step closer to succeeding Angela Merkel as chancellor, as his Social Democrats, the Greens and liberal FDP announced a preliminary deal to form a new government.

Microsoft on Thursday said it will shut down career-oriented social network LinkedIn in China, citing a “challenging operating environment” as Beijing tightens its control over tech firms.

Representatives of the Taliban have confirmed they will take part in talks on Afghanistan in Moscow next week, President Vladimir Putin’s special representative on Afghanistan said yesterday.

A partially shredded canvas of one of Banksy’s most celebrated works sold at auction in London on Thursday for £18.58 million ($25.38 million), a new record for the British artist, three years after the artwork was bought for a fraction of that price.

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.

Iran and the EU agreed Thursday to hold further dialogue in Brussels aimed at resuming talks on a faltering 2015 nuclear deal between the Islamic republic and world powers, Tehran said.

A British lawmaker in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party was stabbed to death on Friday in a church by a man who walked into a meeting with voters from his electoral district.

Harvard University, already the wealthiest in the world, said on Thursday that its endowment made a 34% gain and swelled to $53.2 billion in the fiscal year that ended in June.

Sydney will end its Covid-19 quarantine for fully vaccinated international travellers from November 1, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet said on Friday, foreshadowing the full return of overseas travel after more than 19 months.

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday its newly formed advisory group on dangerous pathogens may be “our last chance” to determine the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and urged China to provide data from early cases.

Russia yesterday reported a pandemic high for both new coronavirus infections and fatalities over 24 hours, with the country’s vaccination drive at a snail’s pace and few restrictions in place.