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.

Sudan’s paramilitaries have ordered civilians to vacate homes in the capital’s south, several residents said late on Sunday, as fighting between the forces of rival generals raged in the western Darfur region.

Terming the video of two women in Manipur being paraded naked and subjecting them to sexual assault “horrendous”, India’s Supreme Court today said it would not want the state police to probe the incident as they virtually handed over the women to the rioting mob

A bomb blast in southeastern Myanmar killed one person and wounded 12 others on Monday, an official said

African leaders on Sunday gave the junta in Niger one week to cede power or face the possible use of force, and slapped financial sanctions on the putschists, after the latest coup in the jihadist-plagued Sahel region raised alarm on the continent and in the West

At least six people were killed yesterday in clashes in south Lebanon’s restive Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp, said Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement and a source at the camp.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made massive changes to his cabinet last week in a move political analysts say is more theater than substance, but the Liberal leader’s close advisers say it shows his determination to seek a fourth election victory.

As the Northern Hemisphere swelters under a record-breaking summer heat wave, much further south, in the depths of winter, another terrifying climate record is being broken. Antarctic sea ice has fallen to unprecedented lows for this time of year.

A federal judge has thrown out Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which the former president claimed the network’s description of his election fraud as the “big lie” associated him with Adolf Hitler.

Eight people including three small children died in Russia when trees crashed into a lakeside campsite during a storm described as a “hurricane”, authorities said yesterday.

West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS yesterday gave Niger coup leaders one week to reinstate ousted President Mohammed Bazoum or face sanctions and the possible use of force.

Stating that the government machinery has completely failed to control the Manipur ethnic conflict, which is lingering for nearly three months, opposition bloc INDIA yesterday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his “silence”, showing “brazen indifference” to the ongoing situation in the northeastern state.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had brought down three Ukrainian drones early yesterday that had been trying to attack Moscow.

Television footage showed panic-stricken people gathering at the site following the blast as ambulances arrived to move the injured to hospitals

Eight people died and another 10 were hospitalised in Russia when trees crashed into a campsite during a severe storm described as a "hurricane", authorities said on Sunday

A powerful explosion ripped through a fireworks warehouse Saturday in southern Thailand, killing nine people and injuring more than 100, a senior official said, as several nearby homes were levelled or damaged

Former US president Donald Trump said yesterday he would not end his run for the White House if he were convicted and sentenced in any of the criminal investigations mounting against him.

African leaders pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday to move ahead with their peace plan to end the Ukraine war and to renew a deal on the export of Ukrainian grain that Moscow tore up last week.