A record 110 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced from their homes, the United Nations said Wednesday, branding the huge upsurge an "indictment" of the world

Former US President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them

Extreme weather conditions in Europe have killed almost 195,000 people and caused economic losses of more than 560 billion euros since 1980, the European Environment Agency said Wednesday.

More than 100 people have drowned in north central Nigeria after a boat carrying families returning from a wedding sank in a river, police and local authorities said on Tuesday

Former US president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty early today to federal criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them.

A Russian missile strike killed at least 11 people in an apartment building and a warehouse in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s home town yesterday, while Moscow’s forces yielded ground in the early stages of a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Sudan’s army chief is not ready to meet the enemy general he’s been at war with for eight weeks, a government official said yesterday after a regional bloc proposed a face-to-face encounter between the two.

Alarm over advancements in artificial intelligence must not obscure the “grave” harm already being done by digital platforms rife with misinformation, UN chief Antonio Guterres said Monday, as he proposed an international code of conduct.

Police and ethnic Serbs clashed in the flashpoint city of Mitrovica in north Kosovo yesterday, as Prime Minister Albin Kurti introduced a new plan to defuse weeks of tensions.

Four boys drowned in rough seas off the western Indian financial hub of Mumbai yesterday as India and Pakistan began evacuating people from coastal areas, two days before a cyclone is expected to make landfall.

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian in a West Bank raid while four Israelis were injured in a separate shooting incident, as fresh violence hit the territory yesterday, officials said.

The Biden administration has taken diplomatic steps that have slowed down a Chinese effort to project military power around the world, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday ahead of a visit to Beijing later this week.

Cambodian leader Hun Sen yesterday ordered election laws to be changed to ban anyone who fails to vote in an upcoming poll from ever running for office -- a move that will affect exiled rivals.

More than 6,000 civilians were killed in Myanmar in the first 20 months after the February 2021 military coup, a report published yesterday by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo said.

More than 6,000 civilians were killed in Myanmar in the first 20 months after the February 2021 military coup, a report published today by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo said.."Our data shows that the human toll of the conflict is higher than previously reported, and while the junta

A Russian missile strike killed three people and wounded 32 in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, authorities said, as air attacks were reported in Kyiv and other cities

Former President Donald Trump arrived in Miami on Monday to face federal criminal charges, while a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found a vast majority of his fellow Republicans believe the case to be politically motivated

Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul and former Italian prime minister who transformed the nation’s politics with polarising policies and often alarmed his allies with his brazen remarks, died yesterday aged 86.

Ukraine said yesterday its troops had recaptured a fourth village from Russian forces in a cluster of settlements in the southeast, where its forces have at last claimed gains in its long-anticipated counteroffensive.

Canada and the Netherlands have taken Damascus to the International Court of Justice over allegations of torture, the tribunal said yesterday, in the first case at the UN’s top court over Syria’s brutal civil war.