A powerful El Niño weather event could push an additional nearly 49 million people into acute food insecurity across some of the world’s most vulnerable regions by the end of next year, the World Food Programme (WFP) said yesterday.

Meta Platforms’ Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to the Indian government over child sexual abuse material on the company’s platforms and for operational errors, local television channels reported yesterday.

Malaysia will not send 5,000 refugees back to Myanmar if authorities conclude their lives would be at risk, a government spokesman said Wednesday, while preparations continued for the potential repatriation.

The Democratic Party’s progressive wing scored a high-profile victory when Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s US Senate primary, US media projected yesterday, giving its anti-establishment message a boost ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Russia fired dozens of ballistic missiles at Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and the surrounding region yesterday, killing at least 17 people and destroying warehouses and logistics centres of major retailers, Ukrainian officials said.

US President Donald Trump said his administration had “very good discussions” with Iran during all-day negotiations on Tuesday, fuelling expectations of an imminent end to the five-month conflict.

Taiwan’s largest military drills of the year began yesterday as the island democracy attempts to prepare its population for a potential Chinese invasion.

New observations of some of Neptune’s moons and rings are providing evidence of a catastrophe that occurred billions of years ago around the solar system’s outermost planet in which a Pluto-sized interloper caused a celestial demolition derby.

A group of eight South Korean student protestors were in detention and under investigation yesterday after trying to break into a US air base, police and the American military said.

However, US Treasury maintains its sanctions against a man previously identified as the company's owner, Basheer Abdulkadhim Alwan al-Shabbani

Beijing says the measures respond to US tariffs, forced labour sanctions and national security restrictions

Tokyo is moving ‘to formulate the possession of the capability for preemptive attack’, Kim Yo Jong says

There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage

The Brazilian government also said it was downgrading its mission in Argentina to the level of charge d'affaires, Argentina's foreign ministry said in a statement

The Strait of Hormuz, a key conduit for global oil and gas supplies, has been the spark for repeated returns to fighting

A New Zealand politician has raised eyebrows after joining a high-stakes meeting from a bathroom, her laundry clearly visible in the background

An armed man was arrested at the US President Donald Trump's golf course in Los Angeles two days before the US leader's visit on Tuesday, the local sheriff's office said.

US authorities arrested a man Monday on suspicion of arson in connection with the biggest of three fires burning around the northwestern city of Spokane, as firefighters raced to contain flames that have displaced tens of thousands.

Ukrainian drones struck three warehouses across Russia overnight, including two run by online retailer Wildberries, killing five people, local officials said yesterday.

India’s Gen-Z Cockroach Janta Party, whose recent protest against exam paper leaks claimed a rare ministerial scalp, has no immediate plans to enter electoral politics, its founder told Reuters yesterday.