The International Court of Justice yesterday appointed Yuji Iwasawa as its new president, replacing Nawaf Salam, the new prime minister of Lebanon.

A woman suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Pakistani paramilitary troops in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan yesterday, killing at least one soldier and injuring four others, officials said.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has told British media that a ceasefire without security guarantees for his country would not bring a lasting end to Russia’s invasion after allies called for a truce.

The United States is drawing up a plan to potentially give Russia sanctions relief as President Donald Trump seeks to restore ties with Moscow and stop the war in Ukraine, a US official and another person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Piles of documents seen by AFP expose a vast economic empire that Maher al-Assad and his network of profiteers built by pillaging a country already impoverished by nearly 14 years of civil war.

Volodymyr Zelensky told British media Sunday it would not be easy to replace him as Ukraine's president, but repeated his offer to step down in exchange for NATO membership for his war-torn country

Britain's Ministry of Defence said Thales will manufacture the lightweight-multirole missiles for Ukraine.

Trump's growing closeness with Putin has rung alarm bells across Europe as well as among the US Democratic Party, who have raised national security concerns.

One person died last week in the blaze in the northern region of Iwate

Iran's parliament sacked the country's finance minister on Sunday after impeaching him over soaring inflation and a plunging currency, state television reported

"The National Armed Forces, international partners, and vigilant locals are still continuing operations"

Zelenskiy reiterated that Ukraine would not concede any territory to Russia as part of a peace deal.

Says host UK PM as Ukraine summit begins in London after Trump snub

Britain and France will work on a peace deal with Ukraine and present it to Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday, describing it as a step in the right direction following Friday’s explosive meeting in the White House.

Iran’s parliament sacked the country’s finance minister yesterday after impeaching him over soaring inflation and a plunging currency, state television reported.

Nations failed to break a deadlock over the timing of the UN’s next blockbuster assessment of climate change science after a marathon meeting in China that US envoys skipped.

With planting season well under way in California, the leading US food-producing state, fear is taking root among thousands of migrants who labor to feed a country that now seems ready to deport them.

A US company successfully landed its spacecraft on the Moon yesterday, marking only the second private mission to achieve the milestone -- and the first to do so upright.

Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza yesterday as a standoff over the truce that has halted fighting for the past six weeks escalated, with Hamas calling on Egyptian and Qatari mediators to intervene.

Rescuers recovered the eighth and final body from the site of an avalanche in a remote area of northern India, the army said yesterday, marking the end of a marathon operation in sub-zero temperatures.