Russia unleashed a barrage of drones and missiles on Ukraine overnight into Sunday, killing at least four people, with Kyiv suffering the heaviest assault. It was the first major bombardment since an air attack on Ukraine’s capital left at least 21 people dead last month.
Separately, US Vice President...
Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 38 people across Gaza, health officials said, as international pressure grows for a ceasefire but Israel’s leader remains defiant about continuing the war.
Strikes in central and northern Gaza killed people in their homes in the early hours of Saturday morning, including nine...
An Israeli strike on a meeting of Hamas officials in Qatar has cast a cloud of growing concern across Turkiye that it could be the next target.
Turkish Defence Ministry spokesman Rear Adm. Zeki Akturk warned in Ankara on Thursday that Israel would “further expand its reckless attacks, as it...
Vietnam marked its National Day on Tuesday with its largest military parade in decades, as thousands packed the streets of the capital, Hanoi, after many camped overnight to witness the grand display marking 80 years of independence.
The parade unfolded at Ba Dinh Square, the site where revolutionary leader Ho...
Israel on Friday declared Gaza’s largest city a dangerous combat zone and said it was in the “initial stages” of a planned offensive that has drawn international condemnation.
Israel’s military said it suspended mid-day pauses to fighting, which had allowed food and aid supplies to enter from 10 am...
The leaders of Belarus and Iran signed new agreements on Wednesday to boost bilateral ties in key areas including defence, the two governments said.
Presidents Alexander Lukashenko and Masoud Pezeshkian signed a package of 13 documents in the Belarusian capital, Minsk.
Both governments have been placed under heavy sanctions, limiting potential...
India today hit out at Pakistan for reckless, war-mongering and hateful comments from its leadership, saying that any misadventure will have painful consequences, as was demonstrated recently. Briefing media in New Delhi this afternoon, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said Pakistan would be well-advised to temper its rhetoric....
Kim Cheong San and his wife Min Ok Sun, both in their 90s, never thought their temporary tin-roof shelter built over 70 years ago in Gyodong Island in South Korea would become their permanent home after being displaced in the Korean War.
Gyodong-do (do means island in Korean) is situated...
The interim Bangladesh government of Mohammed Yunus is falling short in implementing its challenging human rights agenda a year since tens of thousands of people took to the street to successfully depose their authoritarian government, Human Rights Watch said today.
Some of the fear and repression that marked Sheikh Hasina’s...
The U.S. Justice Department released more than 240,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., including records from the FBI, which had surveilled the civil rights leader as part of an effort to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize winner and his civil rights movement.
Files...
