Several powerful pro-Iran Iraqi politicians have in recent days voiced opposition to a potential visit by Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa to Iraq for the upcoming Arab League summit.

A large police operation was under way in Germany yesterday to find one or more shooters who killed two men the day before in the centre of the country, police said.

A fisherman died after being swept off rocks near Sydney yesterday, stretching the Easter weekend death toll of drownings to six as huge waves battered Australia’s east coast.

At least two people were killed in overnight US strikes in and around Yemen’s capital Sanaa, media controlled by the Houthi rebels reported yesterday, in the latest such air raid.

The US Supreme Court, in a dramatic nighttime intervention Saturday, blocked President Donald Trump’s unprecedented use of an obscure law to deport Venezuelan migrants without due process.

Three people have died and the Srinagar-Jammu national highway in India, the lifeline of the Valley, has been shut after heavy rain caused landslides and triggered flash floods in the Union Territory yesterday.

Qatar’s chief negotiator voiced frustration over talks for a truce in Gaza in an interview with AFP, a month after Israel resumed its strikes on the Palestinian territory and another round of negotiations ended without a deal.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of “using” Murshidabad violence to “play divisive politics”.

Russia could play a key role in a deal on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, with Moscow being touted not only as a possible destination for Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, but also as a possible arbiter of deal breaches.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said yesterday that disarming the Iran-backed Hezbollah group was a “delicate” matter whose implementation required the right circumstances, warning that forcing the issue could lead the country to ruin.

There was no information yet about the "circumstances, or the motive of the perpetrators", they said.

The billionaire real estate tycoon has pulled the United States out of an international deal on taxing multinationals and threatened tariffs on countries that target US tech giants.

Israeli officials have vowed to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon

Palestinian health authorities said at least 50 Palestinians had been killed in strikes on Saturday.

The 30-hour truce would be the most significant pause in the fighting throughout the three-year conflict.

The administration had already sent a list of demands on April 3 to Harvard for the elite school to continue receiving federal funding.

Tehran's top diplomat Abbas Araghchi declared it a "good meeting" that yielded progress

Thousands of protesters rallied in New York, Washington and other cities across the United States against Donald Trump and his hard-line policies

Recent polling puts the Liberals led by incumbent Mark Carney at around 44 percent support, leading the Conservative opposition under Pierre Poilievre at around 38 percent

The US Supreme Court yesterday paused the Trump administration’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members under an 18th-century law.