Political challenges for Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) are mounting with a number of Indian states saying they will not implement the contentious law seen as anti-Muslim, and backing nationwide protests against it.

Regime air strikes yesterday killed five civilians in the embattled opposition stronghold of Idlib in northwest Syria,

The Russian government has published a plan to adapt the economy and population to climate change, aiming to mitigate damage but also “use the advantages” of warmer temperatures.

Machine-gun wielding jihadists killed four Nigerian soldiers and wounded 11 more during an attack on an army base in the northeast, military officials told AFP yesterday.

At least half of Australia’s only disease-free koala population, a key “insurance” for the species’ future, is feared dead with more badly hurt after bushfires swept through an island sanctuary, rescuers said Sunday.

A celebrated Japanese sushi businessman, nicknamed “Tuna King”, paid $1.8 million for a giant tuna at New Year’s auction at Tokyo’s

The search for victims in the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Cambodia drew to a close yesterday with the final death toll at 36

Jihadists from Somalia’s Al-Shabaab group yesterday attacked a military base used by US and Kenyan forces in Kenya’s coastal Lamu region, the army spokesman said.

Demonstrators chanting “no war on Iran” rallied Saturday in Washington, New York and across the US to protest the assassination of a top Iranian military commander in a US drone strike.

The Iraqi parliament yesterday called on the government to work to end all foreign troop presence as a backlash grew after the killing of a top Iranian military commander and an Iraqi militia leader in a US strike in Baghdad.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah yesterday said the US military in the Middle East would pay the price for the killing of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, warning that US soldiers and officers would return home in coffins.

The Iraqi parliament call on the government to work to end all foreign troop presence as a backlash grew after the killing of a top Iranian military commander and an Iraqi militia leader in a US strike in Baghdad.

Iran's ancient and rich cultural landscape becomes a potential US military target as Washington and Tehran lob threats and take high-stakes steps toward a possible open conflict.

Saudi Aramco shares hit the lowest level since their market debut on Sunday, as Gulf bourses were hit by a panicky sell-off amid Iranian vows of retaliation over the US killing of a top general.

The immediate threat from Australia’s devastating bushfires may have eased - at least temporarily - but thousands of people are still living in campsites along the country’s east coast, unable to return home.

Pope Francis calls for dialogue and restraint two days after the killing of a top Iranian military commander by the United States.

Iran condemns Donald Trump as a “terrorist in a suit” after the US president threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites hard if Tehran attacks Americans or US assets in retaliation for the killing of military commander Qassem Soleimani.

At least 28 people were killed and dozens injured in an air strike on a military school in the Libyan capital Tripoli, a ministry spokesman says.

The body of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a US military strike, has been returned to Iran.

A group claiming to be hackers from Iran breaches the website of a little-known US government agency and posts messages vowing revenge for Washington's killing of top military commander Qasem Soleimani.