Israel's security cabinet is expected to convene later on Tuesday to likely approve a text at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a senior Israeli official said.

In a series of posts to his Truth Social social media account, Trump vowed to hit some of the United States' largest trading partners with sweeping tariffs on all goods entering the country

Joe Biden will attend Donald Trump's inauguration in January, the White House said Monday

In Washington, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said, "We're close" but "nothing is done until everything is done".

The order from US District Judge Tanya Chutkan puts an end to the federal effort to hold Trump criminally responsible for his attempts to hold onto power after losing the 2020 election, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by a mob of his supporters.

UN’s Palestinian refugee agency has said half a million people are threatened by sewage flood amid Gaza’s rainy season, and cold temperatures will take a toll on thousands of malnourished people.

Israel’s security cabinet was preparing to decide whether to accept a proposed ceasefire in its war with Hezbollah, an official said yesterday, as the White House announced it believed a deal to end the fighting in Lebanon was “close”.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has reaffirmed Bangladesh’s steadfast support for Palestine.

At least one policeman was killed and dozens on both sides wounded as supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan clashed with security forces outside Pakistan’s capital Islamabad yesterday, a government minister and Khan’s party said.

India’s parliament was suspended yesterday after opposition lawmakers disrupted it demanding a discussion over bribery allegations against the Adani Group and Adani dollar bond prices fell to almost one-year lows as investors and lenders weighed the case.

One woman was killed by a partner or relative every 10 minutes worldwide in 2023, the United Nations warned yesterday, stressing that femicides remained at “alarmingly high levels”.

A pro-Russia far-right candidate took a surprise lead yesterday in Romania’s presidential election, as the EU-leaning premier was knocked out of the race that will be decided in a December run off.

Taiwan’s defence ministry yesterday reported that a Chinese balloon had been detected over the sea to Taiwan’s north, the first time since April it has reported such an incident in what Taipei views as part of a pattern of harassment by Beijing.

Thirty-nine foreigners have fled an online scam centre in Myanmar across the border to Thailand, where officials are working to identify potential trafficking victims, police told AFP yesterday.

Russian missiles damaged residential buildings in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv and Odesa in the south, and a blizzard of drones caused temporary power cuts in Mykolaiv region and targeted the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said yesterday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the emerging ceasefire deal with Hezbollah "in principle" during a security consultation with Israeli officials on Sunday night, a source familiar with the matter said

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was commenting on a decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence chief and a Hamas leader, Ibrahim Al-Masri.

A separate report from Israel's public broadcaster Kan, citing an Israeli official, said there was no green light given on an agreement in Lebanon

Africa recorded the highest number of intimate partner and family-related killings

Displaced Gazans fleeing fighting or air strikes pile aboard them to rush to safety with their belongings.