Iran has reiterated that its opposition to nuclear weapons was official policy as laid down by its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the wake of controversial remarks by a minister.

At least 39 passengers were killed when a bus plunged into a canal in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh yesterday, police told AFP as recovery efforts continued.

At least 60 people died when a passenger barge carrying more than 700 people became shipwrecked on the Congo river at night, Democratic Republic of Congo’s humanitarian affairs minister said on Monday.

Police in Belarus yesterday raided the homes and offices of more than 20 journalists, rights defenders and trade union members, investigators and activists said, as part of a probe into mass protests.

Turkish prosecutors yesterday launched an investigation into Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders over a tweet in which he wrote “terrorist” accompanying an image of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Students chanted slogans outside the Delhi police headquarters yesterday demanding the release of a 22-year-old environmentalist accused of sedition for an online document in support of farmers’ protests.

The military coup and growing unrest in Myanmar are “absolutely not what China wants to see”, Beijing’s ambassador to the Southeast Asian country said in remarks published yesterday.

The Taliban yesterday urged the US to honour a landmark withdrawal deal under which all foreign troops would exit Afghanistan in the coming months, even as violence continues to rage in the war-ravaged nation.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday lawmakers will establish an outside, independent commission to review the “facts and causes” related to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

The daughter of Dubai’s ruler says she is being held captive and fears for her life after a foiled attempt to flee the emirate, according to new footage aired by the BBC on.

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday apologised to a woman who alleged that she was raped in parliament two years ago for the way her complaint was handled at that time, ordering a probe into the government’s workplace culture.

The World Health Organization has asked six African countries to be alert for possible Ebola infections, as Guinea yesterday reported new cases and Democratic Republic of Congo said its new infections were a resurgence of a previous outbreak.

A Dutch court ordered the government Tuesday to end the curfew it imposed last month to rein in the spread of the coronavirus, saying the ruling coalition was not entitled to use emergency powers to enforce the restrictive measure.

Russian state prosecutors on Tuesday asked a court to fine Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny 950,000 roubles ($13,000) for slandering a World War Two veteran, a charge he calls politically motivated.

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologised on Tuesday to a woman who alleged she was raped in the country’s parliament by an unnamed colleague, and promised a thorough investigation into the government’s workplace culture.

The World Health Organization has given emergency use approval to AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccines, allowing distribution to some of the world’s poorest countries to begin.

Britain yesterday began mandatory hotel quarantine for arrivals from high-risk countries as New Zealand identified its first cases of the UK strain from the outbreak that forced its largest city into lockdown.

Google and Facebook are “very close” to deals with major Australian media to pay for news, a top government official said yesterday, as the tech giants scramble to avoid landmark regulation.

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb sparked a fresh controversy on Saturday evening when he revealed BJP’s alleged ambition to form a governments in neighbouring Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are expecting their second child, a spokesperson for the couple said on Sunday.