India will start withdrawing its troops deployed in the Maldives from next month, Male’s foreign ministry said after talks yesterday.

The United Nations said on Friday it estimates that at least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip have been left unaccompanied or separated nearly four months into the war

Israeli forces shelled the outskirts of the last refuge on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip on Friday, where the displaced, penned against the border fence in their hundreds of thousands, said they feared a new assault with nowhere left to flee

An undocumented migrant from Myanmar has died in a road accident while fleeing an immigration detention centre with over a hundred others in Malaysia late Thursday, officials said

US President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Thursday that aims to punish Jewish settlers who attack Palestinians in the occupied West Bank following the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of 31 armed MQ-9B SkyGuardian drones, related missiles and equipment to India for nearly $4 billion, the Pentagon said on Thursday, years after the two countries started discussing a deal

India’s Border Security Force (BSF) has officially regretted the death of a Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) soldier and expressed willingness to work together to prevent any such incident in the future, said the foreign ministry.

Ukraine said yesterday it had destroyed a Russian warship in the Black Sea off the Crimean peninsula, which has come under increasing Ukrainian attacks.

Hackers have used the notorious Pegasus spyware to break into the phones of dozens of journalists and activists in Jordan over the past four years, according to the findings of an investigation released yesterday.

Hamas is unlikely to reject a Gaza ceasefire proposal it received from mediators this week, but will not sign it without assurances that Israel has committed to ending the offensive, a Palestinian official close to the talks said yesterday.

The number of new cancer cases will rise to more than 35 million in 2050 -- 77 percent higher than the figure in 2022, the World Health Organization’s cancer agency warned yesterday.

Pioneering groups of humans braved icy conditions to settle in northern Europe more than 45,000 years ago, a “huge surprise” that means they could have lived there alongside Neanderthals, scientists said Wednesday.

The United States has approved plans for multi-day strikes in Iraq and Syria against multiple targets, including Iranian personnel and facilities, CBS News reported yesterday, citing US officials.

An armed assailant yesterday raided a plant owned by the US consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble near Istanbul and took an undisclosed number of people hostage, Turkish media reported.

India’s opposition parties yesterday accused the government of targeting their leaders in the build-up to elections after the financial crime agency arrested a state chief minister on corruption charges,

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organisation said that an explosion was reported at a distance off a vessel’s starboard side west of Yemen’s Hodeidah. UKMTO said that the vessel and crew are safe.

Over 130 Rohingyas landed on the shores of Indonesia’s Aceh province yesterday, an official at the UN refugee agency said, the latest in a series of such arrivals that have drawn controversy in the Southeast Asian country.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called his organization’s Palestinian refugee agency the “backbone” of Gaza aid after several countries suspended funding over Israeli claims 12 UNRWA staffers participated in Hamas’ October 7 attacks.

The recent ruling by the International Court of Justice gave a sense of optimism for the Palestinians struggling for 75 long years for liberation, Palestinian Ambassador to Bangladesh Yousef SY Ramadan said yesterday.

US President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Thursday that aims to punish Jewish settlers who attack Palestinians in the occupied West Bank following the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel.