The death toll from the most powerful earthquake to strike Albania in decades rose to 40 yesterday after more bodies were pulled from

Throngs of weeping relatives yesterday buried the first of 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck in Britain last month, in emotional

European Union lawmakers yesterday declared a “climate emergency” in a symbolic vote that heightens pressure for action against global

Disgraced Maldives ex-president Abdulla Yameen was sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering yesterday after a

Iran has arrested eight people it accused of CIA links and sending abroad information on recent urban unrest, days after the United States said it had received thousands of messages on a protest crackdown in the Islamic republic.

Iran yesterday said that European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal could not trigger a dispute mechanism in the agreement that could lead to the reimposition of UN sanctions.

A US ambassador nominated by President Donald Trump who provided key testimony in his impeachment hearings was accused Wednesday of sexual misconduct by three women.

Cracking the whip on MP Pragya Thakur over her remarks on Nathuram Godse in Lok Sabha, the BJP yesterday barred her from attending its parliamentary party meeting in the ongoing Parliament session and removed her from the consultative committee on defence.

The Israeli ambassador was mistaken to have sent a “GOOD LUCK” message to Myanmar ahead of World Court hearings on accusations the state committed genocide against Rohingya Muslims, Israel’s foreign ministry said yesterday.

North Korea fired two “unidentified projectiles” yesterday -- the Thanksgiving holiday in the US -- Seoul said, as nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington remain deadlocked.

Iraqi security forces have cracked down on anti-government protesters in the strife-torn south, leaving 13 people dead in a bloody escalation hours after the torching of an Iranian consulate.

Days after causing alarm with an unscheduled trip to the hospital, President Donald Trump tweeted a photo-shopped image of himself as a rippling, bare-chested boxer.

The House Judiciary Committee said Tuesday it would begin hearings on December 4 in the next phase of the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, inviting the US president and his lawyer to attend.

Iran’s top leader yesterday denounced an outbreak of deadly unrest as a “very dangerous conspiracy” as authorities reported about 731 banks and 140 government sites had been torched in the disturbances.

Protests continued in Assam yesterday against the Indian government’s move to introduce the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, that seeks to give citizenship to non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the current winter session of parliament.

Emergency workers in Albania yesterday pulled dusty bodies from the ruins of buildings gutted by a violent earthquake and searched desperately for survivors as the death toll reached 30 with hundreds injured.

A TikTok post by a young woman, pretending to give eyelash curling advice while actually condemning China’s crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang, has gone viral on the Chinese-owned app that has been accused of censoring anti-Beijing content.

Some Japanese lawmakers giggled this week during a drill to practice the use of disaster prevention helmets, at least one of which was put on backwards, prompting

US President Donald Trump’s wife Melania faced rare boos Tuesday when she gave a speech on the dangers of drug addiction in the east coast city of Baltimore.

Israel struck a series of military targets in the Gaza Strip overnight yesterday in response to rockets fired from the Palestinian enclave, the Israeli army said.