The devastating impact of global warming that threatens humanity is a pushback from Nature under assault, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned yesterday ahead of a key climate conference.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro claims that Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio financed fires being set in the Amazon rain-forest, without presenting any evidence, the right-wing leader’s latest broadside in casting blame over forest fires that have generated international concern.

A military court in Suriname sentenced President Desi Bouterse to 20 years in prison Friday over the executions of political opponents

North Korea yesterday warned Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he could soon see a “real ballistic missile” while excoriating him as the “most stupid man ever known in history”.

Dutch police kept up a huge manhunt yesterday for an assailant who stabbed three youths in The Hague’s main shopping area.

A Roman Catholic bishop went on trial in southern Indian state of Kerala yesterday accused of repeatedly raping a nun. While the Catholic

Air pollution forced the closure of schools and universities in parts of Iran yesterday, including Tehran, which was cloaked by a cloud of

An Israeli warplane attacked a Hamas position in the Islamist-run Gaza Strip on Friday after a rocket was fired from the enclave at the

Facebook published a correction on a user’s post yesterday following a demand from Singapore, the first time a tech giant has complied with the city-state’s law against misinformation.

Iraqis kept up anti-government protests in Baghdad and the south yesterday, unsatisfied with the premier’s vowed resignation and insisting on the overhaul of a system they say is corrupt and beholden to foreign powers.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador warned Friday that he would not allow cross-border armed US operations against drug cartels in the country.

The 164 signatory countries to the Mine Ban Treaty (MBT) agreed Friday to accelerate the work to achieve the goal of a “mine-free” world

China has issued new rules banning online video and audio providers from using artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality technologies

Dutch police are hunting an assailant who stabbed three minors in the Dutch city The Hague's main shopping street as people looked for bargains on Black Friday.

North Korea’s state media has lashed out at Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as an “imbecile and political dwarf” for calling Pyongyang’s latest test of a large multiple-rocket launcher a ballistic missile launch and warned he may see a real one in the near future.

British police names the man who stabbed two people to death in London on Friday in what the authorities called a terrorist attack as 28-year-old Usman Khan, who had been convicted of terrorism offences and was released from prison last year.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was best if US President Donald Trump did not get involved in Britain’s upcoming election when he visits London for a Nato summit next week.

The Taliban yesterday said they were ready to restart peace talks with the United States, a day after President Donald Trump visited US troops in Afghanistan and said he believed the radical group would agree to a ceasefire.

Sudanese transitional authorities approved a law on Thursday to dissolve the former ruling party and repealed a public order law used to regulate women’s behaviour under ex-president Omar al-Bashir, the justice minister said.

Iraq’s embattled premier yesterday announced he would resign in keeping with the wishes of the country’s top cleric, as renewed violence added to a soaring death toll in two months of anti-government protests.