Syria’s new authorities have arrested nearly 300 people, including informants, pro-regime fighters and former soldiers, in a crackdown on loyalists to ousted former president Bashar al-Assad, a monitor said yesterday.

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday sided with key supporter and billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk in a public dispute over the use of the H-1B visa, saying he fully backs the programme for foreign tech workers opposed by some of his supporters.

The South Korean government said it will announce the exact cause of Sunday's deadly plane crash as soon as authorities complete the corresponding investigation

The incident occurred yesterday at a beach in Perth

Investigators probing Yoon had ordered him to appear for questioning at 10 am (GMT 0100) on Sunday, a demand he rejected.

It is the deadliest air accident ever on South Korean soil, and the worst involving a South Korean airline in nearly three decades

Gaza health officials and the WHO yesterday said that an Israeli military raid has shut down the last major health facility in northern Gaza.

Vladimir Putin yesterday admitted Russian air defence was working when an Azerbaijani Airlines plane tried to land in Grozny before crashing, breaking the Kremlin’s silence as speculation mounted Russia may have accidentally shot the plane.

Norwegian police said an officer in his twenties and a suspect had died after an overnight shootout yesterday in the Nordic nation where police rarely die in the line of duty.

US President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief Friday urging the Supreme Court to pause a law that would ban TikTok the day before his January 20 inauguration if it is not sold by its Chinese owner ByteDance.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that “several” wounded North Korean soldiers died after being captured by Ukrainian forces, as he accused Russia of throwing them into battle with “minimal protection”.

The death toll after a bridge collapse in northern Brazil increased to 10 on Friday, authorities said.

The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen early yesterday, a day after the Huthi-held capital Sanaa was hit by fresh air strikes.

The top diplomats of China and Iran agreed Saturday that the Middle East is “not a battleground for the big powers” and should not be an arena of geopolitical competition between countries outside the region.

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and seven others wounded in cross-border exchanges of fire with Afghanistan’s forces, a security source said yesterday, while hundreds of Afghans protested against the deadly air strikes that sparked the clashes.

An Israeli military raid targeting Hamas members has forced a major hospital in northern Gaza out of service and led to the detention of its director, the WHO and health officials said Saturday

He died on Christmas Day of lymphoma

Trump was fiercely opposed to TikTok during his 2017-21 first term, and tried in vain to ban the video app on national security grounds.

The Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan this week suffered physical “external interference”, the airline and Azerbaijan’s transport minister said yesterday, citing preliminary results of an investigation, adding to speculation it was hit by a Russian air defence system.

A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun by any human-made object.