The human rights situation in North Korea has deteriorated, the UN warned yesterday in a report describing a decade of “suffering, repression, and increased fear”.

US President Donald Trump yesterday said his patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin was running out, as the Kremlin announced a “pause” in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour. That is because Diella, as she is called, is an AI-generated bot.

Israeli strikes killed at least 50 Palestinians, including 14 from a family, in the Gaza Strip yesterday, local health authorities said, most of them in Gaza City, where many residents are staying put despite Israeli evacuation orders because they have nowhere safe to go.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced on Thursday to 27 years and three months in prison hours after being convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, dealing a powerful rebuke to one of the world’s most prominent far-right populist leaders.

A suspect in the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah university has been taken into custody, US President Donald Trump said yesterday, ending an intense manhunt that followed what Trump described as a “heinous assassination.”

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Exercise comes just two days after a tense drone incident with Poland

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Final decision to be taken in meeting at President Paudel's residence

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NATO's eastern flank members that border Belarus -- Poland, Lithuania and Latvia -- are on high alert over the drills

The plane departed as scheduled with the planned number of passengers

Security-camera videos show a person going up stairwells to get onto a roof before firing at Kirk

Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday reached the majority of three votes needed to convict firebrand ex-president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup, making a lengthy prison sentence a near certainty.

More than 100 international media groups and industry bodies yesterday urged Washington not to slash the time foreign journalists can stay in the United States, saying the planned change would hurt its image abroad.

A gas truck exploded in Mexico City on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding 90, municipal officials said, as well as causing widespread damage and disruption.

Syria said yesterday that its forces dismantled a cell affiliated with Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group, a key ally of ousted president Bashar al-Assad.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday vowed that there would be no Palestinian state, speaking at a signing ceremony for a major settlement project in the occupied West Bank.

A manhunt was underway yesterday after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot to death at a university in Utah, a killing that sparked fears of worsening political violence in the United States.