Storm Idalia strengthened into a hurricane yesterday as forecasters predicted it would intensify and become “extremely dangerous” before making landfall in the US state of Florida.

Hundreds of thousands of people are being coerced in Southeast Asia by criminal gangs into carrying out online scams, often under the threat of torture, the United Nations said yesterday.

The United Nations warned yesterday that the political crisis in Niger and the sanctions imposed against the coup regime risk triggering “catastrophic” humanitarian effects.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday thanked authorities in Saudi Arabia -- with which his country has no formal ties -- for their “warm attitude” following an emergency aircraft landing in Jeddah.

India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar dismissed China’s claims on contested territory as “absurd”, saying yesterday the areas belonged to India.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said yesterday that the West had failed to isolate his country, while also holding out the prospect of resuming talks on reviving a nuclear deal.

Taiwan yesterday urged China to stop “military harassment” that risked damaging regional security after it said 24 Chinese warplanes were detected near the island.

Years of disrupted schooling have left Ukrainian children struggling to learn language, maths and reading skills in the wake of the pandemic and Russia’s invasion, the United Nations warned yesterday.

A forest blaze in Greece is “the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU” and the bloc is mobilising nearly half its firefighting air wing to tackle it, a European Commission spokesman said yesterday.

Cyprus police said yesterday they have arrested 21 people after violent clashes between Cypriots and migrants near the resort city of Paphos, where authorities have started removing Syrians from a condemned apartment complex.

A parasitic roundworm typically found in snakes has been pulled “alive and wriggling” from a woman’s brain in a stomach-churning medical first, Australian doctors said yesterday.

The Pentagon plans to field thousands of drones within the next two years to help counter China’s numerical edge in personnel and military hardware, a senior US defense official said Monday.

Thirty-nine civilians were killed, most of them women and children, when shelling hit their homes on Tuesday in war-torn Sudan's vast western region of Darfur, medics and witnesses said

Donald Trump will stand trial in March 2024 for trying to overturn his 2020 presidential election defeat, one day before Republican voters in more than a dozen US states will decide whether to give him a chance to recapture the White House

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday suspended PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s three-year sentence in the Toshakhana case

A county in eastern China is offering couples a "reward" of 1,000 yuan if the bride is aged 25 or younger, the latest measure to incentivise young people to get married amid rising concern over a declining birth rate

A series of bomb attacks in Thailand's insurgency-hit far south killed two people and wounded four others, a senior local official told AFP on Tuesday

Iraq has hanged three people convicted for a 2016 bombing that killed more than 320 people in a Baghdad shopping district and was claimed by the Islamic State group, the prime minister's office said on Monday

Toyota Motor Corp will suspend operations at all of its assembly plants in Japan from Tuesday afternoon due to a malfunction with its production system, it said, likely bringing domestic output to a standstill for the world's top automaker

A strong, deep 7.1-magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks rattled Bali and other Indonesian islands on Tuesday, the USGS reported, sending panicked tourists into the streets but causing no major damage