Washington has sanctioned 20 citizens of the Maldives for their ties to the Islamic State group, including one man accused of trying to assassinate former president Mohamed Nasheed.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday condemned Moscow for putting another of its judges on a wanted list in Russia, after the court issued an arrest warrant for the country’s President Vladimir Putin.

Mail on the Scottish isles of Orkney was delivered by drones yesterday, the first regular postal service by the aerial devices in the UK.

Russia said yesterday it had downed another wave of Ukrainian drones aimed at vessels in the Black Sea and Moscow, as an office block in the capital’s main business district was struck for the second time in a few days.

Iran yesterday declared a two-day holiday for government workers and banks nationwide as searing temperatures sweep across the country, state media reported.

The leader of an influential Pakistan political party yesterday called for better state-provided security after an Islamic State suicide bomber killed 54 people -- almost half of them children -- at an election gathering.

The Kremlin said yesterday that other countries’ interest in joining the BRICS group of nations was proof of the bloc’s growing authority on the world stage, but hinted at disagreements over its possible expansion ahead of a summit.

NASA is trying to reestablish contact with Voyager 2 after it sent a wrong command to the spacecraft and lost communication with it.

The company formerly known as Twitter removed a towering, blinking X from atop its San Francisco headquarters Monday after the rebranded tech firm tangled with city officials over the controversial sign

The United States is concerned about reports of intimidation and political violence during protests in Bangladesh over the weekend against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Monday

Tension ran high in Nuh in the northern Indian state of Haryana as some criminals threw stones and set cars on fire during a religious procession yesterday, Indian media reported citing the police

Authorities in Nigeria’s northeastern Adamawa state on Sunday imposed a statewide round-the-clock curfew to stop widespread looting of food stores in the state capital Yola.

A Railway Protection Force personnel yesterday morning shot dead four people, including an Assistant Sub-Inspector, on-board a running train near the Palghar railway station in Maharashtra, India, an official said. He was later arrested after attempting to run away.

The property manager of Donald Trump’s Florida estate was set to appear in court yesterday to face charges of conspiring to help conceal the alleged mishandling of top secret government documents by the former president.

A key party in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government will not agree to any concessions to the Palestinians as part of a deal on normalising relations with Saudi Arabia, one of its cabinet ministers said yesterday.

The Niger military junta that seized power last week and ousted democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum said yesterday the toppled government had authorised France to carry out strikes at the presidency to try to free Bazoum.

Only four countries -- Brazil, Mauritius, the Netherlands and Turkey -- have adopted all the anti-tobacco measures recommended in the fight against the “deadly scourge” of smoking, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

The United States will rely on allies rather than a major expansion of its own forces to counter any Chinese military risk in the Pacific, a US general has told AFP.

The Islamic State group yesterday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb blast in Pakistan that killed at least 54 people, including 23 children, at a political party gathering ahead of elections due later this year.

South Africa’s leading opposition party yesterday accused its closest rival of inciting ethnic violence during a mass rally -- shutting the door on a broad coalition ahead of next year’s elections.