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.

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said today that at least 31,490 people have been killed in the territory during more than five months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants

South Korea's "Squid Game" actor O Yeong-su has been found guilty of sexual misconduct, a local court said Friday, after he was charged with assaulting a woman in 2017

Saodat Shermatova "cried with joy" after Uzbekistan, a predominantly Muslim former Soviet republic, lifted a ban last month on women working as bus drivers.

India’s Supreme Court today said it would hear on March 19 petitions seeking a stay on the implementation of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024

Some of India's biggest companies, including Vedanta Ltd VDAN.NS, Bharti Airtel BRTI.NS, RPSG Group and Essel Mining were among the country's top political funders over the last five years under a now-scrapped opaque political funding system

At least 29 Palestinians were killed while awaiting aid in two separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Gaza's health ministry said

The US military said Thursday it had destroyed nine anti-ship ballistic missiles and two drones in Yemen after Huthi rebels fired on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

Says hospital director as the West Bengal CM suffers injuries after falling at home; gets 4 stitches; returns home after being discharged from hospital

The UK government yesterday unveiled a new definition of extremism to determine which organisations get public funds and meetings with officials, prompting criticism from civic, political and religious groups.

Russia’s national guard yesterday said it was fighting off attacks from pro-Ukrainian groups in the region of Kursk, the latest in a recent string of clashes at the border.

President Vladimir Putin yesterday urged Russians to stay the course in the face of a “difficult period”, hours before polls open in a vote set to extend his hardline rule.

The EU yesterday wielded a powerful new digital law to press TikTok and seven other platforms on the AI risks for upcoming elections in the 27-nation bloc, including from deepfakes.

Efforts yesterday grew to get more aid into the war-devastated Gaza Strip, where the UN warns of famine and desperate residents have stormed relief shipments.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday suffered an injury on her forehead when she slipped at her residence in South Kolkata’s Kalighat locality, her party Trinamool Congress said.

An explosion yesterday at a gas depot near Tunisia’s capital injured 35 people, four of them severely, civil protection services said.

President Joe Biden needled “loser” Donald Trump Wednesday, in his first battleground campaign stop since the two rivals secured their parties’ nominations for what promises to be one of the most rancorous elections in US history.

Ruling out the repeal of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today said Muslims still have the right to apply for citizenship under the law

A magnitude 5.4 quake struck the border region between Montenegro and Bosnia early Thursday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said