Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed his "condolences" over a plane crash that killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, describing him as a man who made mistakes but "achieved results"

France said today that there were "reasonable doubts" about the cause of the plane crash that presumably killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia's Wagner paramilitary group

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called for creating an enabling environment for women and girls to become agents of change in the Global South and urged all to join hands to achieve SDG 5

BRICS leaders announced today the "historic" admission of six new countries from next year as the club of large and populous emerging economies seeks to reshape the global order

The BRICS group of nations has decided to invite six countries - Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - to become new members of the bloc

A gunman shot three people dead and wounded at least six others at a bar in the US state of California on Wednesday, police said

Chinese customs on Thursday suspended imports of all "aquatic products" from Japan over the release of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean

The health and cost-of-living crises has disproportionately affected the poor and women in developing Asia, hurting their chances of long-term improvement

Japan on Thursday started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, a polarising move that drew fresh and fierce criticism from China as being "selfish and irresponsible"

The United States on Wednesday expanded its sanctions against Myanmar to include foreign companies or individuals helping the country's military junta to procure jet fuel that it uses to launch airstrikes on its own people, the US Treasury Department said in a statement

The head of the Wagner mercenary group, which in June attempted to topple Russia's military leadership, was on board a plane that crashed on Wednesday, with all passengers killed, Russian officials said

North Korea said its second attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit failed on Thursday, three months after the first one crashed into the ocean shortly after launch

The German cabinet yesterday approved plans to shorten the path to citizenship for immigrants and allow more people to have dual nationality.

The German cabinet yesterday approved plans to shorten the path to citizenship for immigrants and allow more people to have dual nationality.

Greek firefighters yesterday struggled to contain uncontrolled fires throughout the country for a fifth day, several of them bordering an acrid, smoke-filled Athens.

Thailand’s new prime minister vowed to bring four years of change to the kingdom as he took office yesterday.

President Vladimir Putin yesterday used a speech to a summit of BRICS leaders to defend Russia’s war in Ukraine and praise the grouping as a counterbalance to US global dominance.

Leaders of the BRICS bloc of leading developing countries have agreed mechanisms for considering new members, South Africa said yesterday, paving the way for dozens of interested nations to join the group which has pledged to champion the “Global South”.

India yesterday became the first nation to land a craft near the Moon’s south pole, a historic triumph for the world’s most populous nation and its ambitious, cut-price space programme.

Russian drones struck Ukrainian grain facilities at the Danube River port of Izmail overnight in what a senior official said yesterday was a systematic attempt by Moscow to prevent Kyiv exporting grain to the world.