Amnesty International yesterday accused Israel of “committing genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza since the start of the war last year, saying its new report was a “wake-up call” for the world.

A landmark defence pact between North Korea and Russia, signed by its leaders in June, has gone into effect after the two sides exchanged ratification documents, North Korea’s official KCNA news agency said yesterday.

President Emmanuel Macron yesterday sought a new prime minister to prevent France from sliding deeper into political turmoil after Michel Barnier’s government was ousted in a historic no-confidence vote in parliament.

Islamist-led rebels captured the central Syrian city of Hama yesterday, days after seizing the country’s commercial hub Aleppo in a lightning offensive against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

Russia’s top diplomat Sergei Lavrov yesterday accused the West of destabilising the “entire Eurasian continent” and warned that the Cold War that the west is waging can turn “hot”.

Scientists said that electrically stimulating a particular region in the brain could help people with injured spinal cords walk more easily, with one patient describing how the technique allowed him to conquer his fear of stairs.

In a year set to be declared the hottest on record, natural disasters caused $310 billion in economic losses globally in 2024, as climate change increasingly takes its toll, Swiss Re said Thursday.

Says Amnesty Int'l, accuses Israel of 'committing genocide' in Gaza

Warns Lavrov, accuses West of destabilising the ‘entire Eurasian continent’

Mohammadi is serving multiple sentences in Tehran's notorious Evin prison on charges including spreading propaganda against the Islamic RepubliC

Last year, the agency appealed for $9.3 billion in its fundraising call

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has accepted the resignation of Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun

The new technique is intended for people with spinal cord injuries where the connection between their brain and spinal cord has not been totally severed, and who still have some movement in their legs.

A local epidemiologist said women and children were the most seriously affected by the disease

Thompson, 50, was shot around 6:45 a.m. ET (1145 GMT) outside the Hilton on Sixth Avenue, just before the company's annual investor conference.

A vote in the South Korean parliament on the proposed impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol is scheduled for Saturday at around 7:00pm

French lawmakers yesterday voted to oust the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier after just three months in office, a historic move which plunged the country further into political chaos...For the first time in over sixty years, the National Assembly lower house toppled the i

A second major Myanmar ethnic rebel group has said it is ready for Beijing-mediated talks with the junta to end more than a year of renewed fighting that has ravaged areas along the Chinese border.

France’s government yesterday faced a no-confidence vote that could spell the end of Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s administration, plunging the country into uncharted waters.

More than 30,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to severe flooding in southern Thailand, where the death toll climbed to 29, officials said yesterday.