Turkey has condemned Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi for accusing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of humiliating European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and calling him a “dictator”.

The UN yesterday said it was “very concerned” for Dubai’s Sheikha Latifa, two months after having asked the United Arab Emirates for proof that the royal was still alive.

The United States will send two warships through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea, the Turkish foreign ministry said yesterday, as tensions simmer between Russia and Ukraine.

Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg yesterday said she plans to skip the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow this November, saying the uneven rollout of Covid-19 vaccine campaigns would mean countries could not participate on even terms.

Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg yesterday said she plans to skip the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow this November, saying the uneven rollout of Covid-19 vaccine campaigns would mean countries could not participate on even terms.

A blunt-speaking naval officer who as Queen Elizabeth’s dutiful consort helped modernise the British monarchy, Prince Philip might be best remembered for his gruff public persona.

Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth and a leading figure in the British royal family for almost seven decades, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace said today.

Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace has announced, reports BBC.

A former professional football player shot and killed a prominent South Carolina doctor, his wife, two grandchildren and another man before taking his own life at his home a short distance away, authorities said.

Residents of northern areas on the Caribbean island of St Vincent have been ordered to evacuate homes due to a significant increase in the risk of an eruption at the La Soufriere volcano, the government said.

A panel of Indian experts is investigating if there are any domestic cases of blood clotting, even mild ones, as a side effect of the two Covid-19 vaccines being administered in the country.

At least six lawmakers from Myanmar are sheltering in India after fleeing their country amid fears they could be detained by the military junta that seized power in a coup, an advisor to the body representing the ousted government said.

At least 11 demonstrators were killed in clashes with security forces in a town in northwest Myanmar after truckloads of troops arrived to quell a protest against the ruling military junta.

China yesterday accused the United Kingdom of sheltering “wanted criminals” after prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law said he had been granted political asylum there.

President Joe Biden was yesterday scheduled to unveil his administration’s first steps to curb gun violence, including a plan to reduce the proliferation of “ghost guns,” after a slew of mass shootings have put pressure on him to act.

The Philippine defence department yesterday said it was keeping “all our options open” as a diplomatic row with Beijing grows over hundreds of Chinese vessels in the contested South China Sea.

Britain yesterday moved to reassure the public over the safety of its coronavirus vaccine campaign, after deciding to offer alternatives to an AstraZeneca jab amid blood clot concerns.

Australian politicians will no longer be exempt from rules against sexual harassment at work, the conservative government announced yesterday as it tries to quell public anger over parliamentary sex abuse scandals.

Colombo police yesterday arrested the current “Mrs World” on charges of assault over an on-stage fracas in which she pulled the crown off the head of the new “Mrs Sri Lanka”.

Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat said he was stepping aside as the country’s designated future leader to let a younger person take over when current premier Lee Hsien Loong retires, according to his letter published in local media yesterday.