An Indian navy warship has intercepted the hijacked cargo ship Ruen and demanded the Somali pirates on board surrender, a navy spokesperson said yesterday.

Taliban authorities yesterday welcomed the renewal of the mandate of the UN mission to Afghanistan, saying the agency should help boost ties between the country and other nations.

Ukrainian bombardments killed two people and set an oil facility ablaze in Russia yesterday, the second day of showpiece elections guaranteed to cement President Vladimir Putin’s hardline rule.

The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs ordered a delay Friday in proceedings that had been scheduled to get underway on March 25.

Tunisian authorities rescued 34 migrants and found two dead bodies off the North African country’s southeastern coast on Friday, said the National Guard in a statement.

The United Nations appealed Friday for Sudan’s battling factions to allow delivery of humanitarian relief to fend off looming “catastrophic” hunger.

Residents braced for another tense night in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Friday, as attacks continued across parts of the city in the aftermath of the resignation of Prime Minister Henry and in the absence of a clear plan to replace him.

Indian parliamentary elections will begin on April 19, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said today

A US charity said Saturday its team in war-ravaged Gaza had finished unloading the first maritime aid shipment to reach the besieged territory

Since 2005, the pirates of Somalia have terrorised the waters along its coastline and beyond taking advantage of a political void in the country. Here is a recap.

Donald Trump's criminal trial stemming from hush money paid to a porn star before the 2016 US election will start no earlier than April after the judge on Friday granted a 30-day delay due to the late disclosure of evidence to the former president

The humanitarian situation in Gaza is a "nightmare" for mothers and babies, with doctors reporting small and sickly newborns, stillbirths and women forced to undergo C-sections without adequate anesthesia, a UN official said Friday

India’s Supreme Court yesterday said it will hear a batch of petitions seeking a stay on the implementation of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024. 

India’s largest known political donor is a lottery company which has been the subject of fraud and tax evasion probes, according to data published weeks before national elections. 

Ukraine said yesterday that Russian forces had pounded the Black Sea port city of Odesa with missiles, killing more than a dozen people including a paramedic and a rescue worker.

Russia arrested at least 13 people yesterday for vandalising polling stations on the first day of its presidential elections, officials said.

At least 3,000 more chemicals exist in plastics than previously estimated by environmental agencies, a report published on Thursday found, raising questions over pollution and consumer safety.

EU chief Charles Michel yesterday sarcastically congratulated Russia’s Vladimir Putin on winning reelection against no real opposition -- as voting was only just beginning.

Conditions affecting the nervous system -- such as strokes, migraines and dementia -- have surged past

Comments by the United States expressing concern about India’s implementation of a contentious citizenship law based on religion are “misplaced, misinformed, and unwarranted”, the foreign ministry of the South Asian nation said yesterday.