Campaigners have criticised the UN for removing the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen from a list of groups violating children’s rights, adding that the coalition had been responsible for the death or injury of 222 children last year.

North Korea blew up an office set up to foster better ties with South Korea in its border town of Kaesong yesterday after it threatened to take action if North Korean defectors went ahead with a campaign to send propaganda leaflets into the North.

North Korea blew up an office set up to foster better ties with South Korea in its border town of Kaesong yesterday after it threatened to take action if North Korean defectors went ahead with a campaign to send propaganda leaflets into the North.

Saudi Arabia is expected to scale back or call off this year’s hajj pilgrimage for the first time in its modern history, observers say, a perilous decision as coronavirus cases spike.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam yesterday urged opponents of Beijing’s plan to impose national security legislation in the financial hub to stop “smearing” the effort, saying those who did were “the enemy of the people”.

The Indian army has said that 20 of its soldiers were killed in clashes with Chinese troops at a disputed border site, in a major escalation of a weeks-long standoff in the western Himalayas.

US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order will seek to improve how police officers treat African Americans and others by improving credentialing, training and mental health resources, administration officials said.

US airline passengers who refuse to wear face coverings during the novel coronavirus pandemic could have their flying privileges revoked under tougher enforcement policies, the industry’s main lobby group says.

Indian Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh yesterday said the relation between India and Nepal is not an ordinary one and any dispute between the neigbours will be resolved through dialogue.

Nuclear powers continue to modernise their arsenals, researchers said yesterday, warning that tensions were rising and the outlook for arms control was “bleak”.

India summoned the Pakistan charge d’Affaires in New Delhi yesterday and lodged a strong protest with him against the reported arrest of two officials of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.

A retirement home in Brazil has come up with a creative solution to allow friends and families to enjoy personal contact with aging residents particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus: a “hugging curtain.”

An Israeli cabinet minister said the government has approved plans to build a new illegal settlement in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights named after US President Donald Trump.

Veteran Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, whose website has put President Rodrigo Duterte under tough scrutiny, was convicted of libel yesterday and faces up to six years in jail, in a ruling widely seen as a blow to media freedom.

Afghanistan’s government and the Islamist Taliban group have agreed that Doha will be the venue for the first meeting in their peace talks.

China will have jurisdiction over “some extremely rare” national security cases in Hong Kong, a senior official said yesterday as Beijing prepares to unveil its new anti-subversion law for the semi-autonomous business hub.

A Russian court found former US marine Paul Whelan guilty of spying for the United States yesterday and sentenced him to 16 years in jail, a move the US ambassador to Moscow called an egregious violation of human rights that would harm ties.

The death of Rayshard Brooks, a black man killed by a white police officer in Atlanta on Friday, was a homicide caused by gunshot wounds to the back, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office said, as race protests around the world forced governments to rethink on their policies.

"That's not what we do!" Reuters photographer Dylan Martinez heard the words ring out during chaotic scenes in London when mostly peaceful anti-racist demonstrations turn into violent scuffles with counter-protesters in the area.

Thousands have marched in cities around the world for a second week of rallies to support the US Black Lives Matter movement, but also to highlight racism and police brutality in their own countries.