German politicians made a final scramble for votes Saturday on the eve of key elections in which conservatives hope to win despite the dramatic rise of the far right targeting a record score.

President Donald Trump fired top US military officer General Charles “CQ” Brown on Friday, part of a major shake-up of the armed forces’ leadership.

Pakistan authorities have sealed the home of an NGO chief who authored a report alleging widespread rigging in national elections last year, he told AFP on Saturday.

The Associated Press filed a lawsuit against three White House officials on Friday after the news agency was barred from some of US President Donald Trump’s events.

US President Donald Trump had a heated exchange with a Democratic governor Friday over his order barring transgender athletes from women’s sports.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has stressed his support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and defended Germany’s commitment to free speech in a pushback against recent broadsides from the Trump administration.

The head of the UN’s health agency warned Friday that history would not forgive countries if they failed to strike a pandemic treaty at the last hurdle

Palestinian militants yesterday freed five Israeli hostages, among the last living captives to be released under the first phase of a fragile truce that is also expected to see Palestinian prisoners released.

Trump's plan has united Arab states in opposition to it, but disagreements remain over who should govern Gaza and how its reconstruction can be funded.

The ban on AP reporters was later extended to Air Force One.

The group admitted "the possibility of an error or mix-up of bodies", which it attributed to Israeli bombing of the area.

Hadi Matar will be sentenced on April 23, and faces up to 25 years in prison

Trump said he would nominate retired Lieutenant General Dan "Razin" Caine to succeed Brown

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the military to carry out an “intensive” operation in the West Bank after explosions on buses close to Tel Aviv on Thursday, in what Netanyahu’s office described as an attempted mass attack.

Kyiv and Washington are engaged in talks over a deal to hand the United States preferential access to Ukraine’s mineral deposits, a source in Kyiv told AFP yesterday -- despite a dramatic spat between leaders Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday called the Associated Press (AP) a “radical left organization”, his latest salvo against the US media mainstay over its use of the Gulf of Mexico for the renamed body of water.

Three years since the arrival of Russian forces drove her from her home in eastern Ukraine to Poland, Oksana Sapronova and other refugees fear their homeland’s battlefield losses could now end up being in vain.

Twelve university students died and 21 were injured in a collision between a bus and a truck in Brazil’s southeastern state of Sao Paulo, officials said yesterday.

French police will start random searches for knives and other weapons concealed in bags at and around schools in a bid to fight an increase in violent attacks, the education minister said yesterday.

Around 42,000 people have fled the conflict raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and crossed into Burundi in the past two weeks, the United Nations said yesterday.