The US House of Representatives on Friday threw its weight behind a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, in a warning to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he mulls annexing the West Bank.

The Imperial Japanese Army asked the government to provide one “comfort woman” for every 70 soldiers, Japan’s Kyodo news agency said, citing wartime government documents it had reviewed, shedding fresh light on Tokyo’s involvement in the practice.

Qatar’s foreign minister has spoken of “some progress” in talks with Saudi Arabia on ending a bitter two-year-old rift between Doha and the kingdom and its allies.

Washington resumed talks with the Taliban in Qatar yesterday, a US source said, three months after President Donald Trump abruptly halted diplomatic efforts that could end America’s longest war.

The most serious nationwide strike to hit France in years caused new misery for weekend travellers yesterday, with defiant unions dismissing proposals by the government and warning walkouts would last well into next week.

Iraq’s anti-regime protesters gathered in the capital and south yesterday, grieving but defiant after 23 were killed in an attack demonstrators described as “slaughter”.

A 23-year-old rape victim set on fire by a gang of men, which included her alleged rapists, has died in a New Delhi hospital, prompting protests from opposition leaders who blamed the ruling party for failing to check incidents of violence against women.

Nobel Prize laureates gathers in Stockholm to receive their awards took the opportunity to stress the importance of addressing climate change.

US President Donald Trump has called for the World Bank to stop loaning money to China, one day after the institution adopted a lending plan to Beijing over Washington’s objections.

A Saudi military student reportedly condemns America as a "nation of evil" in an online manifesto prior to opening fire Friday at a US naval base, killing three people before being shot dead by police.

Tesla co-founder Elon Musk is cleared of defamation by a jury in Los Angeles over a tweet in which he labeled a British caver "pedo guy."

Several Australian bushfires have combined to form a “mega fire” that is burning out of control across a swathe of land north of Sydney, authorities said yesterday, warning they cannot contain the blaze.

The signatories to the Iran nuclear deal remain committed to the faltering accord, China and Russia said yesterday, following crunch talks as Tehran has vowed to continue to breach limits on its nuclear programme.

Teen activist Greta Thunberg yesterday urged world leaders gathered in Madrid for a UN climate conference to take urgent action to fight climate change, warning “we can’t afford” more delays because “people are dying”.

A senior British diplomat in Washington has resigned, saying she did not want to “peddle half-truths” over Brexit for a government she did not trust, CNN reported yesterday.

Three people died yesterday and many more were feared trapped after a residential six-floor building collapsed in the Kenyan capital

Travellers faced a second day of chaos across France yesterday as unions pressed on with a strike aimed at forcing President Emmanuel

The Philippines’ north has been hit by some of its worst flooding in decades, with torrents of muddy runoff forcing 66,000 from their

Two months of relentless rains have submergedvillages and farms and sent rivers of mud crashing into houses across East Africa, with at

China yesterday said it had taken “reciprocal” measures against US diplomats in the country, ordering them to notify the foreign ministry