Fashion brand Zara said today it regretted the "misunderstanding" over an ad campaign featuring statues wrapped in white that triggered calls for a boycott by some pro-Palestinian activists, and it had removed the images

French lawmakers sent the government's immigration bill back to the drawing board on Monday in a surprise move that cut short debates at the lower house and dealt a blow to President Emmanuel Macron's attempts to pass laws without a majority

Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund is to buy ten percent of London's Heathrow airport from Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial, whose departure from the hub after almost two decades leaves Qatar as its biggest shareholder.

The UN Climate Change Conference, or COP28, was slated to end on Tuesday even as hopes to finish the summit on time faded with negotiations dragged into the early morning hours

Myanmar became the world's biggest producer of opium in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government's crackdown on the trade, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday.

China's President Xi Jinping arrived in Vietnam Tuesday for his first visit in six years, as he seeks to counter the United States' growing influence with the communist nation. .Xi will meet the leader of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, after Hanoi upgraded diplomatic t

Chinese Ambassador to Manila Huang Xilian was summoned on Monday afternoon regarding the latest incidents of Chinese harassment in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesperson Ma. Teresita Daza said at a press briefing in Malacañang

The US government announced measures on Monday to punish what it has described as anti-democratic moves by officials including Guatemala's top prosecutor that seek to annul the election won decisively by President-elect Bernardo Arevalo

Hunger was worsening among Palestinians in the besieged Gaza strip, aid agencies said, as the United Nations General Assembly prepared to vote on Tuesday on an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the two-month-old conflict between Israel and Hamas

India’s Supreme Court yesterday upheld a 2019 decision by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revoke special status for the state of Jammu and Kashmir and set a deadline of September 30 next year for local polls to be held.

Fighting between Israel and Hamas intensified across Gaza yesterday, and Palestinians and international relief agencies said public order was disintegrating as hunger spread, fuelling fears of a mass exodus to Egypt.

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a “prison bakery” where slaves and blindfolded donkeys were kept locked up underground to grind grain for bread, officials said this week.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been removed from the penal colony where he had been imprisoned since the middle of last year and his current whereabouts are not known, his allies said yesterday.

A draft of a potential climate deal at the COP28 summit yesterday offered various options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but stopped short of the full “phase out” of fossil fuels many nations have demanded.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday said he was “deeply sorry” for those who lost family during the Covid pandemic as he was quizzed about his actions as finance minister during the global health emergency.

A “patriots only” district election in Hong Kong that barred opposition democrats from the ballot sheet amid a national security squeeze had a record low voter turnout of 27.5 percent as many voters spurned what was seen as an undemocratic poll.

A Chinese naval formation led by the Shandong aircraft carried sailed through the Taiwan Strait yesterday, Taipei’s defence ministry said.

China said yesterday that peace talks had been held over the conflict in northern Myanmar and yielded “positive results”, after weeks of fighting between the country’s junta and ethnic minority armed groups.

The United Nations yesterday appealed for $46 billion in funding for 2024 to help millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the globe, including in the occupied Palestinian territories, Sudan and Ukraine.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday upheld a 2019 decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to revoke special status for Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and split the region into two federally administered territories. Here are some facts about J&K and the constitutional change.