Israel has faced accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice and from human rights groups over its devastating military assault in Gaza.

Talks on forging a groundbreaking treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were floundering yesterday, with progress slow and countries wildly at odds on what the proposed agreement should cover.

President Donald Trump is moving to target Latin American drug cartels with the military, US media said Friday, after Washington designated several narcotics trafficking groups as “terrorist” organizations earlier this year.

Twin cathedral bells rang in unison yesterday in Japan’s Nagasaki for the first time since the atomic bombing of the city 80 years ago, commemorating the moment of horror.

Muslim nations must act in unison and rally international opposition against Israel’s plan to take control of Gaza City, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said yesterday after talks in Egypt.

The Lebanese army said on Saturday that six soldiers were killed and others wounded in an explosion while they were inspecting a weapons depot and dismantling its contents in the southern city of Tyre.

A further 11 deaths resulting from malnutrition have been reported in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a US-brokered peace agreement on Friday during a meeting with US President Donald Trump that would boost bilateral economic ties after decades of conflict and move them toward a full normalization of relations.

A crash between a bus and a truck in Brazil’s center-western state of Mato Grosso killed 11 people and injured another 45 late Friday, the toll road operator and Brazil’s federal highway police said on Saturday.

India shot down five Pakistani fighter jets and one other military aircraft during clashes in May, India’s air force chief said yesterday, the first such statement by the country months after its worst military conflict in decades with its neighbour.

A 17-year-old boy opened fire and wounded three people in New York City’s heavily touristed Times Square early yesterday, the New York Police Department said.

Ukraine won’t surrender land to Russia to buy peace, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned yesterday, after Washington and Moscow agreed to hold a summit in a bid to end the war.

Alongside targeted interventions, officials are mounting an effort to educate the public about the need to avoid leaving behind food waste that feeds and sustains the rat population

President Donald Trump demanded a massive $1 billion fine from the prestigious University of California system on Friday as the administration pushed its claims of antisemitism in UCLA's response to 2024 student protests related to Gaza

Pakistani security forces killed 33 militants trying to cross from Afghanistan overnight, the military said yesterday, describing them as “Indian-sponsored”.

President Xi Jinping yesterday ordered “all-out” rescue efforts in China’s arid and mountainous northwest after flash floods caused by exceptionally heavy rain killed 10 people and left 33 missing.

Pakistan has suspended cell phone data services for three weeks in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan in a bid to block communications among separatist insurgents behind a surge in recent attacks, an official and the government said.

The United States has doubled its reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to $50 million over allegations of drug trafficking and links to criminal groups, US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Thursday.

China is pleased to see Russia and the United States maintaining contact and improving ties to advance a political resolution of the Ukraine crisis, President Xi Jinping said in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.