COP29 draft deal says rich nations should pay the amount to fight climate change

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the conflict in Ukraine had characteristics of a "global" war and did not rule out strikes on Western countries

Left-leaning industry monitor MediaMatters criticized the "revolving door" between Fox News, part of mogul Rupert Murdoch's sprawling empire, and the White House.

Wednesday's bombshell indictment in New York accused Adani and multiple subordinates of deliberately misleading international investors as part of the bribery scheme.

Countries will have a week in South Korea's Busan from Monday to round off two years of negotiations.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence chief, as well as a Hamas leader for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, the court said yesterday.

The court also issued warrants for Israel's former defence minister as well as Hamas's military chief Mohammed Deif

Indian opposition parties yesterday demanded a probe into allegations of wrongdoing by the Adani Group and said they would raise the issue in parliament after its chair Gautam Adani was charged in the US over an alleged bribery scheme.

Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) during an attack on Ukraine yesterday, Kyiv’s air force said, in the first known use in the war of such a powerful, nuclear-capable weapon with a range of thousands of kilometres.

Successive rounds of Israeli strikes hit Hezbollah’s southern Beirut stronghold yesterday after Israeli military evacuation warnings, while Hezbollah claimed a series of attacks including on a base near south Israel’s Ashdod, its deepest so far.

India warned Canada of “further damage” to already strained ties after Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi knew about a purported campaign targeting Sikh activists.

The COP29 climate summit ran into overtime yesterday after a draft deal that proposed developed nations take the lead in providing $250 billion per year by 2035 to help poorer nations drew criticism from all sides.

The death toll from Super Typhoon Man-yi in the Philippines has risen to 12, the national disaster agency said yesterday as widespread flooding subsided.

Gunmen in northwest Pakistan killed at least 38 people in two attacks yesterday, officials told AFP, part of a sectarian conflict that has claimed dozens of lives in recent months.

Israeli strikes killed 79 pro-Iran fighters, including from Iraq and Lebanon, in the Syrian city of Palmyra, a monitor said Thursday

ICC chief prosecutor in May requested the court issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza

Russia launching an intercontinental ballistic missile at Ukraine would mark a "clear escalation" by President Vladimir Putin, the European Union said on Thursday after Kyiv accused Moscow of such an attack

Getting a deal on the money has proved slow-going at the talks in Azerbaijan's capital of Baku, and the latest draft of the negotiating text arrived several hours later than scheduled as delegates entered, in theory, the closing 48 hours.

US authorities said on Wednesday that Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani and seven other defendants agreed to pay about $265 million in bribes to Indian government officials.

The amount of losses that were caused by your conduct are larger than any other losses he has dealt with, Hellerstein said before announcing the sentence