Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa promised to protect the rights of Druze citizens yesterday as a ceasefire appeared to be holding in the country’s south following US intervention to end fighting between government forces and Druze fighters.

Russia and Ukraine traded another wave of drone strikes overnight, both sides said yesterday, in attacks that killed and wounded people on either side of the front line.

A fire tore through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing at least 69 people, authorities said yesterday, as grief-stricken families searched for missing relatives.

The British government said yesterday it plans to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in general elections, a landmark change giving the UK one of the lowest voting ages worldwide.

A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month indicates the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Most Americans think President Donald Trump’s administration is hiding information about accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epsteinand give it poor marks on the issue after pledging to make public documents in the case, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

More than 500 people from all sides were killed in the violence

The Senate voted 51 to 48 in favor of Trump's request to cut $9 billion in spending already approved by Congress.

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India's aviation regulator earlier this week ordered the country's airlines to investigate the locking feature on the switches of several Boeing models.

Around 50 people were killed and injured when a fire broke out at a shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut, state media said Thursday

More than 350 people have been killed since the weekend in violent clashes in Syria's southern Sweida province

The Supreme Court's verdict permanently removes a long-running legal distraction for Lee as Samsung plays catch-up in a global race to develop cutting-edge AI chips.

He added that the Syrian people are not afraid of war and are ready to fight if their dignity is threatened.

The two companies signed a non-disclosure agreement in April in a bid to advance talks.

Cambodian authorities have arrested more than 200 Vietnamese nationals in internet scam centre raids, police said yesterday, as Prime Minister Hun Manet ordered a crackdown on cybercrime sweatshops.

Iran has seized a foreign tanker in the Sea of Oman on charges of fuel smuggling, the judiciary said yesterday.

At least 20 Palestinians were killed yesterday at an aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), in what the US-backed group said was a crowd surge instigated by “armed agitators”.

Sweeping foreign aid cuts led by the United States will cause international health funding to plummet to the lowest level in 15 years, a study said yesterday, warning the world has entered a new “era of global health austerity.”

President Donald Trump said Tuesday the US Justice Department should release all “credible” information from its probe into notorious sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein as he sought to douse a firestorm of criticism from his supporters over his handling of the case.