The United States and global allies unveiled new security assurances for Ukraine at a Nato summit yesterday, designed to bolster the country’s defences against Russia over the long haul while Kyiv strives for membership of the alliance.

From October, France will pay a bonus to encourage people to have their clothes and shoes repaired rather than throwing them away, the government said.

World hunger stopped rising in 2022 after growing for seven years but remains above pre-pandemic levels and far off track to be eradicated by 2030, UN agencies said today

North Korea has fired a suspected long-range ballistic missile, the South Korean military said Wednesday, days after Pyongyang threatened to down US spy planes that violated its airspace

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meets NATO leaders on Wednesday after they declared his country's future lay inside the alliance but rebuffed his call for a timeline to membership.

A prickly American caterpillar’s trauma-inducing venom can punch a hole in cells thanks to a mechanism inherited 400 million years ago from bacteria, a team of Australian scientists said yesterday.

The United States yesterday slapped sanctions on Serbia’s pro-Moscow intelligence chief and former defense minister for alleged corruption and involvement in drug trafficking.

Russia blocked a nine-month extension of a key Syria aid route at the United Nations Security Council yesterday, throwing the vital mechanism that provides life-saving support to millions of people into doubt.

Human Rights Watch yesterday called on the International Criminal Court to investigate possible “war crimes” in Sudan’s Darfur region where fighting has intensified despite calls for an end to the conflict.

Authorities in Nepal retrieved the bodies of all six people killed in a helicopter crash yesterday, including five Mexican nationals, authorities said, the latest in a series of air disasters to strike the Himalayan nation.

The wife of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is petitioning the British government’s decision to extradite him to the United States, on Monday appealed for clemency from the US president.

Asean foreign ministers gathered in Indonesia yesterday for talks dominated by the crisis in Myanmar, with the regional bloc divided over how or whether to reengage with the country’s ruling junta.

According to the latest declarations by the West Bengal State Election Commission, the TMC is leading in 18,332 gram panchayat seats. Its nearest rival BJP is leading in 4,592 seats out of 63,329 seats as of 5:30 pm yesterday. CPI(M) is leading in 1,894 seats. The Congress in 1,142 seats.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha yesterday announced his retirement from politics, nine years after he took power in a military coup, and promised to stay in charge only temporarily.

The goals the world set to ease extreme poverty, improve access to drinking water and take steps toward sustainable development for all humanity are “in peril,” the United Nations has said in a report published Monday.

Nato leaders yesterday agreed that Ukraine’s future lies within the alliance but they stopped short of handing Kyiv the invitation or timetable for accession it sought, a stance that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had earlier criticised as “absurd”.

The goals the world set to ease extreme poverty, improve access to drinking water and take steps toward sustainable development for all humanity are "in peril," the United Nations has said in a report published Monday

Spain's coastguard said Monday it rescued 86 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa aboard a boat near the Canary Islands that had been spotted earlier in the day by a rescue plane

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he was "very happy" and hailed "a good day for Sweden".

US President Joe Biden told CNN in an exclusive interview that Ukraine is not yet ready for Nato membership, saying that Russia’s war in Ukraine needs to end before the alliance can consider adding Kyiv to its ranks.