Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut and former Calcutta High Court justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, who resigned from the judiciary and joined politics, were today named Bharatiya Janata Party candidates for coming Lok Sabha elections

Three armed men yesterday tried to attack a police station in the Nor-Nork district of Yerevan, the Armenian capital, Armenia’s interior ministry said. According to preliminary information, two of the three men had been wounded as result of hand grenades they were carrying detonating, it said.

Deep differences exist between Hamas and Israel in negotiations for a Gaza truce, an official from the Palestinian group with knowledge of the talks said.

A Chinese-owned oil tanker was attacked off Yemen Saturday by ballistic missiles fired by Houthi rebels, who have intensified strikes on Red Sea shipping, the US military said.

Islamic State yesterday released new videos of the attack on the Crocus City concert hall outside Moscow that left 137 people dead, doubling down on its claim that it masterminded the attack even as Russia has sought to place the blame on Ukraine.

Rescuers in boats and aircraft raced against the clock yesterday to help isolated people in Brazil’s mountainous southeast after storms and heavy rains killed at least 20 people.

More than 130 schoolchildren seized by gunmen in a mass kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria earlier this month were released unharmed yesterday, officials and the army said.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal issued his first directive regarding water and sewer issues in certain parts of the India capital while being in ED custody.

Sameh Makki’s soup kitchen is barely 100 metres from the market, but it can take two hours to make the journey through Sudan’s war-torn streets, often through hails of bullets.

The Ukrainian military said it hit two large Russian landing ships in attacks on the annexed Crimean peninsula early yesterday, as well as a communications centre and other infrastructure used by the Russian navy in the Black Sea.

British Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt yesterday said that the UK had “very little confidence” in Russia’s statements on the Moscow concert hall attack, accusing it of trying to “defend” it’s assault on Ukraine.

Israeli forces besieged two more Gaza hospitals yesterday, pinning down medical teams under heavy gunfire and forcing the evacuation from one hospital of most patients and displaced people sheltering there, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.

Three Philippine troops were injured in the latest China Coast Guard water cannon attack on a Filipino supply vessel near a South China Sea reef, Manila’s national security adviser said yesterday.

Amid confusion over who carried out the attack on the Crocus City concert hall outside Moscow, Islamic State yesterday released new videos of the attack claiming responsibility

The more than 250 school students seized by gunmen in a mass kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria earlier this month have been released, the local governor said today

World leaders denounced a deadly attack by gunmen on a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 130 people and wounded dozens more

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit northern Papua New Guinea on Sunday morning, the United States Geological Survey said

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday vowed to punish those behind a “barbaric terrorist attack” on a Moscow concert hall that killed 133, saying Russia had arrested four gunmen who were trying to flee to Ukraine.

Astronomers have identified two ancient streams of stars - named after the Hindu deities Shakti and Shiva - that appear to be among the Milky Way’s earliest building blocks, offering new insight into how our galaxy came together long ago.

US forces conducted self-defense strikes against three Houthi underground weapons storage facilities in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, US Central Command (Centcom) said on Friday.