Another three people were wounded in a series of internecine clashes in the city of Guayaquil

A French university announced Wednesday it would welcome scientists from the United States working in areas threatened by funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration.

Women’s rights regressed last year in a quarter of countries around the world, according to a report published by UN Women yesterday, due to factors ranging from climate change to democratic backsliding.

Hundreds of diplomats at the State Department and US Agency for International Development have written a letter addressed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio protesting the dismantling of USAID, saying its demise would undermine US leadership and security and create a power vacuum which China and Russia could exploit.

Hamas said yesterday that Donald Trump’s threats would encourage Israel to disregard the fragile ceasefire, after the US president said that unless hostages are freed, the people of Gaza would be “DEAD”.

India yesterday condemned a security breach during its foreign minister’s visit to London when a protester broke through a police cordon, stood in front of the minister’s car and tore the Indian flag before being taken away.

European leaders yesterday said they would stand by Ukraine and spend more on defence in a world upended by Donald Trump’s reversal of US policies.

A resident of Krasnodar, southwest Russia, has been sentenced to 15 years for passing information on the Russian Black Sea Fleet to Ukrainian intelligence, RIA Novosti news agency said yesterday.

Sudan has filed a case against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the International Court of Justice, arguing the UAE is complicit in genocide over its alleged support for Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The change was made to avoid confusion with Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's name

Tropical Cyclone Alfred was 250 kilometres (155 miles) east of busy Brisbane city on Thursday afternoon

Trump's announcement came one day after a phone call with the CEOs of Ford, GM and Stellantis.

More than 700 people have signed onto the letter, a US official speaking on the condition of anonymity said.

In an address to the nation, Macron said that the French were "legitimately worried" about the start of a "new era" after Trump began his second stint in the White House by reversing US policy on Ukraine and risking a historic rupture with Europe

EU member states yesterday agreed on a phased rollout of a new border check system for non-EU nationals which will do away with passport stamps.

Pakistan trumpeted the arrest of Mohammad Sharifullah, whom it blames for a 2021 attack on US troops, in a military operation along the border with Afghanistan, as the result of its renewal of counter-terrorism cooperation with US.

India’s opposition party politicians in the southern states yesterday met to protest plans by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to redraw constituencies based on the 2011 census, on concerns the northern states would dominate in parliament.

Israel criticised a plan put forward by Arab states for Gaza’s reconstruction on Tuesday, while Palestinian group Hamas welcomed it.

US President Donald Trump said later on Tuesday that Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky has told him Kyiv was ready for talks with Russia and the finalisation of a US minerals deal, days after the pair’s explosive White House meeting.

Fierce fighting between Myanmar’s military junta and ethnic minority rebels closing in on the planned site of a strategic China-backed port has displaced 4,000 people, a local aid worker said yesterday.