The West Bank has experienced an “unmatched surge” in the number of new Israeli settlements since the start of the war in Gaza, an Israel-based NGO has said.

Russia yesterday announced its forces shot down four Ukrainian missiles over Moscow-annexed Crimea overnight.

Alaska Airlines ALK.N will temporarily ground its fleet of 65 Boeing 737 MAX 9 BA.N aircraft after a cabin panel blowout forced a jetliner loaded with passengers to make an emergency landing on Friday,

A Myanmar rebel alliance has gained control of a key town along the country’s volatile northern border with China after weeks of fierce fighting with junta troops, the alliance and the junta said.

North Korea’s military fired over 60 artillery rounds near Yeonpyeong Island yesterday, Seoul’s military said, a day after both sides staged live-fire drills in the same area near their contested maritime border.

Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group yesterday said it had fired rockets at Israel and its arch-foe said it had struck a “terrorist cell” in retaliation, as top US and EU diplomats visited the region to seek ways to halt spillover from the war.

The Indian Space Research Organisation’s inaugural solar mission, Aditya-L1, has reached its destination within the anticipated four-month timeframe, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday. 

Canada said on Friday an aircraft was sent this week to Jamaica to address a maintenance issue with the plane that took PM Justin Trudeau on a visit to Caribbean, enabling him to fly back home.

Water purifiers, medical supplies and tent poles are among items Israel has blocked from entering Gaza on aid trucks, according to an Egyptian Red Crescent document seen by Reuters and sources in Gaza, but Israel denied blocking any such items.

It is a radical form of recycling. Calendars from 1996 are being reused for 2024 as both are leap years that begin on a Monday.

US regulators have ordered the temporary grounding of 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft for safety checks following a cabin panel blowout late Friday that forced a brand-new airplane operated by Alaska Airlines to make an emergency landing.

Taiwan’s defence ministry yesterday accused China of threatening aviation safety and waging psychological warfare on the island’s people with a recent spate of balloons spotted near or over the island, days before key Taiwanese elections.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by half last year, according to figures released Friday,

Rescuers and residents sifted through rubble Saturday as their focus turned to recovering bodies and cleaning up rather than finding survivors, five days after a huge earthquake struck central Japan and killed at least 126 people

Exterior photos of the aircraft appeared to show that the rear mid-cabin exit door separated from the aircraft during the flight, Flightradar24 said in a post on its website

Israel bombed Gaza on Saturday as the United Nations warned the Palestinian territory has become "uninhabitable" after three months of fighting that threatens to engulf the wider region

Communications intercepts collected by the United States confirmed that Islamic State's (ISIS) Afghanistan-based branch carried out twin bombings in Iran that killed nearly 100 people, two sources familiar with the intelligence told Reuters on Friday

Pakistan’s senate approved a resolution yesterday to further delay national elections which had been scheduled to take place on February 8, the chairman of the senate said while addressing senators.

The United States said yesterday it is preparing military logistical support and aid for regions in Japan devastated by an earthquake that killed 94 people, forced about 33,000 people to leave their homes, and left over 200 people unaccounted for.

The president of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, will pay a state visit to China from January 8 to 12, the Chinese foreign ministry said in statement yesterday.