A young brother and sister were killed near Naples, Italy, yesterday after the two-storey building where they lived collapsed, firefighters said.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised to protect public services and ruled out austerity measures as Labour’s annual conference kicked off yesterday, its first in 15 years as a government party.

A Russian strike on a residential neighbourhood in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv wounded 21 people including three minors, the regional governor said yesterday.

Iran is willing to strengthen bilateral relations with Bangladesh in various areas including trade and commerce, culture, energy, education and health

A mine blast in eastern Iran has killed 51 people, state media said Sunday, revising an earlier toll of 30 dead

Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera said that Israeli forces raided its office in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and issued a 45-day closure order

Donald Trump on Saturday rejected a second debate against Kamala Harris before the November 5 election, saying it was "too late" with early voting already underway in some states

Dissanayake won about 53% of a million votes counted so far in the election, Sri Lanka's Election Commission data showed.

Ukraine said yesterday it had successfully struck two Russian weapons depots in the southern Krasnodar and western Tver regions, with Moscow announcing more than 1,000 evacuations.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, which has been exchanging fire with Israel for months, yesterday announced that two commanders of its elite operations unit had been killed by an Israeli strike on Beirut, which authorities said left 37 people dead.

One person was killed and at least seven were missing yesterday, officials said, as “unprecedented” rains triggered floods and landslides in Japan’s quake-hit region of Ishikawa, where authorities told tens of thousands to evacuate.

With more than a month before the November 5 presidential election, some Americans are already lining up to cast their ballots in this tightly contested race.

Iran unveiled a new ballistic missile and an upgraded one-way attack drone at a military parade yesterday, state media said, amid soaring regional tensions and allegations of arming Russia.

The toll from an Israeli air strike targeting Hezbollah military leaders in a Beirut building rose to 31 dead Saturday, Lebanon's health minister said, with three children among those killed

In a first, the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a nasal spray flu vaccine for self-administration

Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut yesterday, vowing to press on with a new military campaign until it is able to secure the area around the Lebanese border.

US Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump remain deadlocked less than seven weeks before the November 5 US presidential election, according to new polls released on Thursday that also show a tight race in the key state of Pennsylvania.

Sri Lanka’s right-wing President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who seeks re-election in today’s ballots, describes himself as the “designated survivor” capable of salvaging the economically troubled nation.

Iran summoned the acting head of Afghanistan’s embassy yesterday after saying a visiting Afghan official disrespected the country’s national anthem by not standing, days after a similar incident in Pakistan.

A Hong Kong man was jailed yesterday for “seditious” posts on social media, becoming the third person to be imprisoned under a new national security law in the span of two days.