A Pakistani YouTube star has been charged with blasphemy after launching a perfume named after the very law he has fallen foul of, police said yesterday.

China yesterday accused the United States of “interfering in Venezuela’s internal affairs” after President Donald Trump announced 25 percent tariffs on imports from countries that bought oil and gas from the South American nation.

President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his suggestion that the US should take over Greenland as leaders from the semi-autonomous Danish territory criticized a planned trip there this week by a high-profile US delegation.

The Ukrainian air force said yesterday that Russia launched 139 drones and an Iskander-M ballistic missile during an overnight attack that injured two people and damaged storage facilities.

Britain on Monday imposed sanctions on three former senior Sri Lankan military commanders and one former Tamil Tiger rebel commander over human rights violations during a civil war that ended in 2009.

President Donald Trump yesterday expressed support for his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, after a magazine journalist said on Monday that Waltz had accidentally included him in a discussion of highly sensitive war plans on the messaging app Signal.

Israeli shelling killed four people in southern Syria yesterday, Syria’s state news agency reported, after the Israeli military said its troops had clashed with militants there who had opened fire on them.

A Turkish court yesterday remanded in custody seven journalists for covering the mass protests that erupted following the arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, in a crackdown that has now seen more than 1,400 people arrested.

US President Donald Trump is pushing for a rapid end to Russia's invasion and had hoped the latest round of talks in Saudi Arabia would pave the way for a truce

The former boxer, now 89, was exonerated last year of a 1966 quadruple murder after a tireless campaign by his sister and others.

AFPTV footage from the scene in Beit Lahia showed Palestinians gathering around the car, which had an Al Jazeera sticker on its windscreen. A body could be seen on the ground nearby.

However, the annual report from UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the World Bank does not single out the United States

Kremlin has downplayed expectations of a rapid resolution

Says a US judge at hearing

Han was in charge of Samsung's consumer electronics and mobile devices division

Democratic lawmakers swiftly blasted the misstep, saying it was a breach of US national security and a violation of law that must be investigated by Congress.

British MPs suspect they may have been targeted by a “disinformation” campaign aimed at discrediting Ahsan Mansur, the Bangladesh Bank governor, who is leading the efforts to trace funds allegedly laundered from Bangladesh into the UK,  British newspaper The Guardian reported.

The UN said yesterday it and partners were seeking nearly $1 billion to provide life-saving aid this year for some 1.5 million Rohingya refugees and their hosts in Bangladesh.

A Myanmar junta airstrike on a remote village medical clinic killed 11 people including a doctor and his wife, locals told AFP.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court yesterday reinstated Prime Minister Han Duck-soo to the post of acting president, striking down his impeachment as he pledged to focus on steering Asia’s fourth-biggest economy through a US “trade war”.