French President Emmanuel Macron visited shell-shocked Beirut yesterday, pledging support and urging change after a massive explosion devastated the Lebanese capital in a disaster that has sparked grief and fury.

The Indian government told the Supreme Court that the authority has withdrawn look-out notices against some foreigners who have challenged the apex court on the government's orders blacklisting several citizens of 35 countries for attending a Tablighi Jamaat congregation in New Delhi in March.

French President Emmanuel Macron has told angry Lebanese crowds in downtown Beirut that French aid would not go to “corrupt hands” and he would seek a new deal with political authorities.

A Chinese court has sentenced a Canadian national to death in a ruling that could further inflame tensions between China and Canada.

India has asked other nations, including neighbours, to refrain from commenting on the country’s internal matters.

Bangladesh has decided to send emergency food, medical supplies and a medical team to Lebanon that has experienced massive destruction caused by the twin explosions at Beirut Port on Tuesday evening, Foreign Ministry said in a statement today.

Lebanese rescue teams pull out bodies and hunt for missing people from the wreckage caused by a massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut, killing at least 135.

Young people who are hitting nightclubs and beaches are leading a rise in fresh coronavirus cases across the world, with the proportion of those aged

Nearly a third of Afghanistan’s population -- or 10 million people -- has been infected with the coronavirus, according to health ministry estimates

Tropical Storm Isaias killed at least four people on Tuesday as it made its way up the US Atlantic Coast, including two deaths at a North Carolina trailer

Instead of speeding off in a $200,000 Lamborghini Urus, a Texas man got a slower ride to jail Tuesday after US authorities arrested him for using $1.6 million in government pandemic aid to go on a spending spree.

India’s federal investigative agency CBI will probe the death of a Bollywood actor, its top prosecutor said yesterday, the latest twist to a murky case that was reported as a suicide and has dominated Indian social media for over a month.

More than 900 women and girls have gone missing in Peru during its coronavirus lockdown, a top women’s rights official said on Tuesday, calling for the creation of a national missing persons register to address the “alarming” number of disappearances.

The United States yesterday announced its highest-level visit to Taiwan since it switched diplomatic recognition to China in 1979, a move Beijing blasted as a threat to “peace and stability”.

An initial large explosion in the port area of Beirut took place around 6:00pm, resulting in a fire, several small blasts and then a colossal explosion that flattened the harbour front and surrounding buildings.

India has described as “political absurdity” a map released by Pakistan that includes Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and parts of western Gujarat.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took centre stage yesterday at a ceremony laying the foundations for a temple at a flashpoint holy site exactly a year after imposing direct rule on Muslim-majority Kashmir -- twin triumphs for his Hindu nationalist government.

Four. That is the current number of Bangladeshi nationals who died in the Beirut explosion last night. Beyond that number, however, lies the story of migrant workers who leave Bangladesh to seek better fortune elsewhere.

Lebanon's cabinet has declared a two-week state of emergency in Beirut following a massive explosion in the port that rocked the city, and handed control of security in the capital to the military.

Lebanon’s main grain silo at Beirut port was destroyed in a blast, leaving the nation with less than a month’s reserves of the grain but enough flour to avoid a crisis, the economy minister has said.