The UN human rights chief Saturday strongly denounced the "sharp rise in hatred globally" since the war between Hamas and Israel began on October 7

The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said Saturday at least 9,488 people were killed in the Palestinian territory since war with Israel erupted last month

An Israeli air strike on an ambulance being used to evacuate the wounded from besieged northern Gaza killed 15 people and injured 60 others on Friday, the Hamas-controlled enclave's health ministry said

A group of UN-mandated human rights experts, including the special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, said Thursday “time is running out to prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza”, which Israel called Hamas “propaganda”.

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah yesterday warned the United States that if Israel did not stop its assault on Gaza then fighting on the Lebanese front could turn into a wider war.

Russia launched a massive drone attack early yesterday, hitting critical infrastructure in the west and south of Ukraine and destroying private houses and commercial buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, officials said.

Italian police yesterday said they had arrested a Bangladesh citizen suspected of belonging to a Pakistani Al-Qaeda-linked group who was studying military tactics and publishing incendiary videos online.

A bomb blast targeting a Pakistan police van in northwestern Pakistan yesterday killed five civilians and wounded 21 people, officials said.

India’s capital New Delhi was wrapped in a thick layer of toxic haze yesterday and some schools were ordered closed as the air quality index (AQI) plummeted to the “severe” category. 

An alliance of Myanmar ethnic minority groups said it made more gains in its offensive against the ruling junta yesterday, with the regime vowing it would hit back at the biggest military challenge it has faced since it seized power.

Workers crossing into the Palestinian enclave said they have been detained and ill-treated by Israeli authorities after the Oct 7 Hamas attack

The death toll from a fire at a drug rehabilitation centre in northern Iran rose to 32, local media reported today, up from an earlier count of 27

Myanmar's junta chief today vowed to strike back after an alliance of ethnic minority groups seized towns and blocked trade routes to China in the biggest coordinated offensive against the military since it seized power in a coup

Fear grows for civilians as UN-mandated experts warn of genocide; more than 9,000 Palestinians killed since Israeli offensive since Oct 7

US President Joe Biden is calling for humanitarian pauses in the Israel-Hamas conflict that would involve a "temporary, localised" cessation of hostilities –- well short of a general ceasefire -- a senior White House official said Thursday..At a campaign event on Wednesday Biden was urged

Half of the world’s countries are suffering democratic decline, ranging from flawed elections to curtailed rights including freedoms of expression and assembly, an intergovernmental watchdog group said yesterday.

Myanmar’s military has lost control of a strategic northern town on the Chinese border following days of clashes with three ethnic armed groups, a junta spokesman said. “Government, administrative organisations and security organisations are no longer present” in Chinshwehaw town, which borders China’s Yunnan province,

India’s cyber security unit is investigating allegations by opposition politicians of attempted phone tapping after they reported receiving Apple iPhone warnings of “state-sponsored attackers”, media reported yesterday.

China said yesterday its troops were “on constant high alert” after US and Canadian warships passed through the Taiwan Strait, their second joint passage in two months.

The United Nations will remain steadfast in supporting Palestinians in Gaza, a top aid official said during the first such trip to the territory since the war with Israel erupted.