There has been no sign of improvement in the political situation in Myanmar since the 2021 coup, Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said on Friday following a meeting in Washington with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said he shared his counterpart’s pessimism.

Air strikes killed civilians and pummeled multiple parts of the Sudanese capital yesterday, residents said, as mediators pushed the warring factions towards a new ceasefire.

Militants linked to the Islamic State group massacred at least 37 people and abducted six others in western Uganda, the army said yesterday, in the country’s worst such attack in years.

Eight people have died in the third heatwave to hit Mexico since mid-April, the country’s health ministry said on Friday.

Air strikes killed civilians and pummeled multiple parts of the Sudanese capital today, residents said, as mediators pushed the warring factions towards a new ceasefire.

Militants linked to Islamic State killed 37 people and abducted six others in an attack on a school in western Uganda near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the military said today.

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that his deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, something he confirmed for the first time had already happened, was a reminder to the West that it could not inflict a strategic defeat on Russia

Seven soldiers were killed on Friday after their vehicle hit a landmine in Niger's southeast Diffa region, where jihadist groups are active, according to an army statement broadcast on state radio

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said Ukraine’s counteroffensive would fail as Kyiv’s troops sought to advance in several directions, including the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia.

The US Senate on Thursday narrowly confirmed civil rights lawyer Nusrat Choudhury to the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, making her the first Bangladeshi-American and female Muslim federal judge in the United States.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday the world is racing toward a climate change disaster, dismissing the current global response as woefully inadequate.

The number of migrant crossings through the central Mediterranean to the European Union “more than doubled” in 2023 compared with the same period last year, the EU’s Frontex agency said yesterday.

President Vladimir Putin hailed Russia’s ties with the United Arab Emirates yesterday as he met the leader of the oil-rich nation, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, in Saint Petersburg.

Indian police said security forces killed five foreign militants early yesterday in a gunfight in Kashmir along the Line of Control (LOC), the defacto border with Pakistan in the Himalayan region.

The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than one million children including 270,000 in the Darfur region, the United Nations children’s agency said, warning many more were at “grave risk”.

Greek rescuers yesterday scanned the Ionian Sea by air and boat for survivors of a migrant boat sinking, as hope faded of finding more people alive two days after the disaster.

President Vladimir Putin today confirmed Russia had sent nuclear arms to its ally Belarus which borders Ukraine.

Senior Russian officials today said the Black Sea grain deal could not be extended under current circumstances but that Moscow was working to ensure that poorer countries would not suffer food shortages when it ends.

Peru's health minister resigned Thursday following criticism over her handling of a dengue crisis that has left at least 248 people dead and around 147,000 infected, a presidential statement said..Peruvian President Dina Boluarte accepted Rosa Gutierrez's resignation and vowed to "redouble

Temperatures in Beijing hit a record for mid-June of 39.4 degrees Celsius (103 Fahrenheit) today, China's meteorological authority said, warning the public to stay indoors.."At around 2:30 pm on June 16, the temperature at Beijing's Nanjiao observatory hit 39.4 degrees Celsius, breaking th