More police operations are under way in connection with the killing of a French teacher by a suspected Islamist, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has said.

Tens of thousands of Chileans gathered in the central square of Santiago to mark the one-year anniversary of mass protests that leftover 30 dead and thousands injured, with peaceful rallies devolving by nightfall into riots and looting.

A car bomb targeting an Afghan police headquarters in the western province of Ghor killed at least 12 civilians and wounded more than 100, officials said yesterday.

Human traffickers are capitalising on the coronavirus pandemic to target people ranging from jobless migrants to out-of-school children, two United Nations specialists said, warning that the fallout from Covid-19 had driven the crime further underground.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday attacked a longtime congressional critic who warned this week that his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and authoritarian leaders could cause a “Republican bloodbath in the Senate” in the Nov 3 elections.

Armenia and Azerbaijan yesterday accused each other of violating a new humanitarian ceasefire in fighting over the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, hours after it was agreed.

With 16 days to go before the November 3 election, Democrat Joe Biden is ahead of the Republican president by 9.0 percentage points nationally,

Thousands of anti-government protesters took over key intersections in Bangkok yesterday, defying a ban on protests for the fourth day with chants of “down with dictatorship” and “reform the monarchy.”

The coronavirus remains active on human skin for nine hours, Japanese researchers have found, in a discovery they said showed the need for frequent

India yesterday successfully test-fired its supersonic cruise missile BrahMos, developed jointly with Russia, from the Indian Navy’s indigenously-built

Israel and Bahrain were scheduled to officially establish diplomatic relations yesterday at a ceremony in Manama, an Israeli official said. An Israeli

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday vowed to “crack on” with delivering her vision following a landslide election victory, after a string

Iran said a longstanding UN embargo on arms sales to and from the Islamic republic expired yesterday in line with a 2015 landmark nuclear deal with world powers from which Washington has withdrawn.

An Israeli delegation accompanied by the US treasury secretary has arrived in Bahrain to formalise nascent relations and broaden Gulf cooperation that Washington has promoted as an anti-Iran bulwark and potential economic bonanza.

New Zealand's ruling Labour party leader Jacinda Ardern said on Sunday that she would form a government within two to three weeks but did not comment on a possible coalition deal with the Green Party.

India yesterday began to identify about 300 million people who would be given Covid-19 vaccine first when it is ready as millions of Europeans faced tough new coronavirus restrictions due to spiraling second wave of infections.

A former Mexican defense minister has been detained in the United States and charged with drug trafficking and money laundering in the latest high-profile arrest linked to the country’s powerful cartels.

More than 1.1 million voters in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state will be disenfranchised in upcoming national polls, according to data released by the election commission Friday, a move experts warned could fuel yet more conflict.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday accused the country’s army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa of toppling his government, pressuring the judiciary, and installing the current government of Prime Minister Imran Khan in the 2018 elections.

The man suspected of beheading a French teacher who showed his students controversial anti-Muslim cartoons was an 18-year-old Chechen, a source said yesterday, in what President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terror attack”.