Iran yesterday said it has continued indirect negotiations with the Unites States through the Sultanate of Oman over its nuclear deal and a possible prisoner swap.

A British man was arrested in South Korea yesterday after he attempted to climb the country’s tallest skyscraper -- the fifth highest in the world -- without equipment, police said.

A bus carrying wedding guests overturned and killed 10 people in an “unimaginable” night-time crash as it travelled through a wine-growing area north of Sydney, police said yesterday, announcing a string of charges against the driver.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday lashed out at his predecessor Boris Johnson in a row over political honours for allies of the former premier.

Militants have attacked a camp for displaced persons in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 41 people, a local official said yesterday.

The injured mother of four Huitoto Indigenous children who survived a May 1 plane crash in Colombia told her kids to “get out of here” before she died four days after the crash.

Thailand’s prime ministerial frontrunner Pita Limjareonrat will be investigated over whether he was qualified to run in last month’s election, a top official said yesterday, in another setback as he battles to win backing for his premiership.

The number of operational nuclear weapons rose slightly in 2022 as countries implemented long-term force modernisation and expansion plans, a leading conflict think-tank said yesterday, warning that the world was entering a dangerous phase.

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.

The United States plans to rejoin Unesco from July this year, ending a lengthy dispute that saw Washington end its membership in 2018, the UN cultural agency announced yesterday.

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a billionaire businessman who created Italy's largest media company before transforming the political landscape, has died on Monday, according to sources

Ten people have died in a wedding party bus crash in Australia's Hunter wine region in New South Wales, police said Monday, announcing the arrest of the 58-year-old driver

Heavy clashes and artillery fire erupted across Sudan’s capital Khartoum yesterday and residents reported air strikes soon after the end of a 24-hour ceasefire that had brought a brief lull to eight weeks of fighting between rival military factions.

China has been operating an intelligence unit in Cuba for years and upgraded it in 2019 in an effort to enhance its presence on the Caribbean island, a White House official said Saturday.

Heavy rains followed by strong winds killed at least 27 people, including eight children, in northwest Pakistan, officials said yesterday.

Iran’s supreme leader said yesterday that reaching a deal with the West over Tehran’s disputed nuclear work was possible if the country’s nuclear infrastructure remained intact, state media quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying.

Former President Donald Trump used the first public appearance since his federal indictment to ratchet up attacks on the Justice Department, accusing prosecutors, without evidence, of a politically motivated campaign to keep him from the White House.

Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested yesterday, the BBC and Sky reported, after Police Scotland said a 52-year-old woman was in custody being questioned as part of its investigation into the Scottish National Party’s funding.