A Pakistani court indicted imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife on fresh charges of illegally selling state gifts yesterday.

At least 36 Palestinians were killed early yesterday in Israeli bombings of various areas in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

Time Magazine yesterday named US President-elect Donald Trump its “person of the year,” marking the second time he has won the accolade in acknowledgement of the mogul’s stunning political comeback.

The Indian Cabinet has cleared bills required to implement the “one nation, one election” proposal - which proposes simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections and, at a later stage, municipal polls too - sources told NDTV yesterday afternoon.

The UK weather service forecast yesterday that 2025 would likely be among the top three warmest years globally, falling just behind the record-breaking temperatures set in the past months.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today reiterated New Delhi's intent to strengthen relations with its neighbours in tune with the ‘Neighborhood First Policy’

The indictment was the latest in dozens of cases against the 72-year-old former cricket star, who has been in jail since late last year.

The offensive, which took just 10 days to sweep across Syria and take the capital Damascus, stunned the world and brought an end to more than a half a century of brutal rule by the Assad clan.

Yinpiao Zhou, 39, was arrested as he readied to board a flight to China from San Francisco, authorities said.

Traditional media companies the world over are in a battle for survival as precious advertising dollars are hoovered up online.

The command's leader General Erik Kurilla "was present at the implementation and monitoring headquarters today during the ongoing first Israeli Defense Forces withdrawal and Lebanese Armed Forces replacement in Al-Khiam

TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Wray will leave before the end of the 10-year term that Trump himself appointed him to in 2017.

More than a thousand donations have poured into an online fundraiser for his legal defense, with messages supporting him and even celebrating the crime.

He faces a second impeachment vote in parliament expected on Saturday

India's Adani Group has withdrawn its request for a US government-backed loan to construct a port in Sri Lanka seen as a counter to a rival Chinese project, according to company filings.

Israel’s strikes on Syria following the fall of longtime president Basher Al-Assad violate international law, United Nations experts said yesterday, branding Israel’s attempts to “preemptively disarm” its foes as “lawless”.

Israel’s arrest of almost 30 mostly Jewish citizens who allegedly spied for Iran in nine covert cells has caused alarm in the country and points to Tehran’s biggest effort in decades to infiltrate its arch foe, four Israeli security sources said.

The Afghan minister for refugees was killed yesterday in a suicide bombing at the ministry’s offices in the capital Kabul, government sources said, blaming the Islamic State group for the attack which has not been claimed.

Forty migrants are feared dead off Italy’s Lampedusa island after a lone 11-year-old survivor said the boat she was on capsized three days ago, a rescue group said yesterday.