Four Palestinians were killed on Monday in clashes with Israeli security forces at Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, where violence has escalated over a wildcat Jewish settlement.

Former US president Donald Trump called for his successor Joe Biden to resign on Sunday (Aug 15) over the swift takeover of Afghanistan by Taleban militants, as US troops withdrew from the country after nearly 20 years on the ground.

The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti climbed to 1,297 on Sunday, a day after the powerful temblor turned thousands of structures into rubble and set off franctic rescue efforts ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching storm.

Two of Afghanistan’s most notorious regional warlords fled on Saturday as the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif fell to the Taliban and security forces abandoned the city in a headlong rush up the highway to the safety of neighbouring Uzbekistan. 

The rout of Afghan forces as Taliban fighters take one provincial city after another provides a stark answer to anyone wondering about the success of two decades of US-led efforts to build a local army. 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday announced snap elections for September 20 to seek a new mandate to steer the nation’s pandemic exit, much to the dismay of his rival parties.

Nigerian authorities yesterday imposed a curfew in parts of central Plateau state, a day after a suspected Christian militia attacked a convoy of 90 Muslims, killing at least 23.

Algerian firefighters were struggling yesterday to put out 19 blazes in the north of the country, where 90 people were killed in wildfires this week.

Libyan authorities have shut water supplies to swathes of the country after gunmen demanding the release of a jailed Gaddafi-era official threatened to sabotage the water network.

Fully vaccinated people in England will from today no longer be required to self-isolate if they have had close contact with a coronavirus case, as restrictions continue to be eased.

Ivory Coast’s first recorded case of deadly Ebola disease in nearly three decades is of “immense concern”, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Firefighters in northern Morocco are battling to put out two forest blazes, a forestries official said yesterday as the North African kingdom swelters in a heatwave.

The death toll in Haiti’s powerful earthquake jumped to over 700 yesterday as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president’s assassination.

The Hong Kong protest coalition that organised record-breaking democracy rallies two years ago yesterday said it was disbanding in the face of China’s sweeping clampdown on dissent in the city.

South Korea and the United States will begin their annual joint military drills today, the South’s military said yesterday, amid North Korea’s

At least 28 people were killed and 79 injured when a fuel tank exploded in northern Lebanon early yesterday, the health ministry said. Military and

RELIGIOUS STUDENTS: The Taliban originated among young Afghans who studied in Sunni Islamic schools called madrassas in Pakistan after fleeing Afghanistan during the 1979-1989 Soviet occupation.

Japan will never wage war again, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged on Sunday, as he commemorated the end of World War Two while members of his cabinet visited a shrine seen by critics as a symbol of the country’s past militarism.

Malaysia’s embattled leader will offer his resignation to the king today, a minister said, potentially spelling an end to his 17-month-old government and plunging the country into fresh turmoil.  

All 16- and 17-year-olds in England will be offered their first COVID-19 vaccine dose by August 23, according to a target set by British Health Secretary Sajid Javid.