Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday warned global leaders at an all-virtual Davos forum against starting a “new Cold War”, and urged global unity in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was set to send the Senate a single article of impeachment yesterday accusing Donald Trump of inciting the Capitol riot, formally triggering the first-ever impeachment trial of a former president.

Indian and Chinese troops were involved in a “minor face-off” last week in a disputed stretch of their shared border in the eastern Himalayas, the Indian army said yesterday, underlining the fraught situation at the border.

The United States marked its return to the global fight against climate change yesterday by joining high level talks on ways to better protect people and economies from the effects of global warming already taking place.

Rights defenders fear Iraq may give the green light to a spree of executions of convicted jihadists in a show of strength, days after a deadly suicide attack in Baghdad.

Israel opened an embassy in the United Arab Emirates Sunday, its foreign ministry said, in a historic move four months after the Jewish state and the

US President Joe Biden overturned a controversial ban by his predecessor on transgender individuals serving in the US military, a move that fulfills a campaign promise and will be cheered by LGBTQ advocates.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said global adaptation over climate change is still far from the pace of devastation just for lack of funds and political will.

Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher.

The Vulnerable 20 Group of Finance Ministers (V20) have highlighted mounting pressures to their economies amidst climate disasters and the Covid-19 pandemic during the inaugural Global Climate Adaptation (GCA) Summit.

Australia on Monday approved the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use but warned AstraZeneca’s international production problems mean the country would need to distribute a locally manufactured shot earlier than planned.

The United Arab Emirates cabinet has approved the establishment of an embassy in Tel Aviv in Israel, state media said, and Israel announced its embassy had opened in Abu Dhabi.

Dutch police have arrested the alleged leader of a large Asian drug syndicate who is listed as one of the world’s most-wanted fugitives and has been

Armed men killed one sailor and abducted 15 from a Turkish cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported yesterday.

Rescuers in east China yesterday pulled 11 miners from hundreds of metres underground where they had been trapped for two weeks, state media

US President Joe Biden’s administration next week will release more policies it believes are needed to tackle climate change and is urging China to toughen one of its targets on greenhouse gas emissions, his top climate advisers said on Saturday.

Chinese air force planes including 12 fighter jets entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone for a second day yesterday, Taiwan said, as tensions rise near the island just days into US President Joe Biden’s new administration.

The Kremlin yesterday accused the United States of interfering in Russia’s domestic affairs and downplayed the scale of the weekend’s protests, when tens of thousands rallied in support of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon yesterday said she planned to hold a legal referendum on independence from Britain despite Westminster’s opposition, as an opinion poll showed a majority would vote yes.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Saturday he was willing to “turn the page” with the US under President Joe Biden, calling for a “new path” after years of tension with Donald Trump’s White House.