Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday his country was unlikely to enter the European Union in 2028, a date targeted by some other western Balkan countries hoping to join the bloc.
Five people were killed and 46 injured in a Ukrainian attack on the southwestern Russian city of Belgorod late on Friday, the local governor said.
The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the heinous terrorist attacks resulting in the loss of civilian lives over the months in Burkina Faso in a statement.
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani discussed bilateral relations between the two countries with the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Olaf Scholz, in a call.
The World Health Organisation chief said on Friday that mpox vaccines were set to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the next few days to fight a new strain of the virus.
A Russian guided bomb attack on Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv on Friday hit a residential building and a playground killing six people, including a child, and injuring at least 55 more, local authorities said.
Israeli forces killed a local Hamas commander in the flashpoint city of Jenin on Friday as they pressed a major operation in the occupied West Bank for a third day, the Israeli military said.
The United Nations (UN) released $100 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF). on Friday, to address critical underfunding of humanitarian emergencies across 10 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.
Libya's central bank governor Sadiq al-Kabir said he and other senior bank staff had been forced to leave the country to, "protect our lives" from potential attacks by armed groups.
Social media giant X said it expects Brazil's top court to order it to shut down, as a pitched legal battle plays out over compliance with local laws and owner Elon Musk's insistence the platform is being punished for resisting censorship.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved a request to provide the Secret Service with additional military support capabilities for presidential and vice presidential candidates for the upcoming election, the Pentagon and the Secret Service confirmed.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he will require the government or insurance companies to pay for IVF fertility treatments if he is elected in November, a move likely aimed at appealing to women and suburban voters.
Israel's military and Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for the first round of vaccination of 640,000 children against polio, a senior WHO official said on Thursday.
Palestinians in Gaza are waiting to see if there would be a pause in fighting to allow a polio vaccination campaign to begin, as the conflict raged across the besieged enclave, killing at least 20 people.
At least 179 people have died and tens of thousands been displaced in weeks of flooding in Nigeria, the National Emergency Management Agency said on Thursday.
China's coast guard urged the Philippines on Thursday to stop sending missions to resupply a vessel near a contested shoal in the South China Sea, warning that such "adventurous actions" could trigger unspecified incidents.
Heavy rains battered parts of India's western state of Gujarat this week, flooding cities, snapping utility links and forcing thousands to leave their homes, with at least 28 dead, authorities said on Thursday, warning of more heavy downpours.
The lawyer for Telegram boss Pavel Durov said it was, "totally absurd to suggest that the head of a social network" such as his client could be involved in criminal acts, as the tech founder was granted bail in Paris but handed a travel ban.
Israel’s Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, angered leaders from the region and beyond after alluding that Palestinians in the occupied West Bank should be evacuated.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) temporarily suspended movement of its employees across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, saying at least 10 bullets struck one of its clearly marked vehicles as it approached an Israeli military checkpoint.
Southwestern Japan was hit by heavy rain and very strong winds as Typhoon Shanshan made landfall in Kagoshima prefecture on Thursday, knocking out power supply for over a quarter million households and injuring dozens of people.
U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan wrapped up three days of talks in Beijing, intended to ease simmering tensions between the two superpowers, and set to meet one of Chinese President Xi Jinping's top military officials on Thursday.
The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) is investigating two of its top officials in Sudan over allegations including fraud and concealing information from donors about its ability to deliver food aid to civilians following the nation’s dire hunger crisis.
Israeli forces sent tanks deeper into Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and launched strikes across the enclave as they battled Hamas, killing at least 34 Palestinians on Wednesday, according to medics.
Donald Trump faced a revised federal indictment accusing him of illegally trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, with prosecutors narrowing their approach after a US Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution.
Russia said it wanted the International Atomic Energy Agency to take a "more objective and clearer" stance on nuclear safety after the head of the agency visited a Russian nuclear plant near where Ukraine mounted an incursion into the country.
At least 100 people have been killed during an armed attack in central Burkina Faso over the weekend in the deadliest incident in over a decade.
Protesters blocked train tracks, stopped buses and shouted slogans in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal on Wednesday, the latest in a series of protests that have rocked the state since the assault and murder of a trainee doctor.
Ukraine's drones set several oil tanks on fire at the Glubokinskaya oil depot in Russia's Rostov region, several Russian Telegram channels reported on Wednesday.
Israeli security forces have initiated a major ground operation, with air support, in the north of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday evening, an Israeli military spokesman said.
The Greek-flagged crude oil tanker Sounion that was recently attacked by Yemen's Houthis is still on fire in the Red Sea and now appears to be leaking oil, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday.
Israeli troops have recovered an Israeli hostage in "a complex rescue operation" in the southern Gaza Strip, the military said on Tuesday, more than 10 months after he was abducted.
Emergency responders were scrambling on Tuesday to find out how many people remain missing after waters burst through a dam in eastern Sudan, resulting in the worst in a series of floods that have devastated a country already torn by 500 days of war.
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that the war with Russia would eventually end in dialogue, but that Kyiv had to be in a strong position and that he would present a plan to US President Joe Biden and his two potential successors.
United Nations aid operations in Gaza ground to a halt on Monday after Israel issued new evacuation orders for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, where the U.N. operations center is located, said a senior U.N. official.
Russia launched missile and drone attacks targeting scores of Ukrainian regions and killing at least five people, officials said on Tuesday, a day after Moscow's biggest air attack of the war on its neighbour.
The office of Venezuela's top prosecutor issued a second summons for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez on Monday, who will reportedly be questioned about an opposition website that published detailed results of last month's disputed presidential election.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said ocean temperatures are rising in the Pacific Islands at three times the rate worldwide, and its population was "uniquely exposed" to the impact of rising sea levels.
Four men have been arrested on suspicion of starting fires that have destroyed thousands of hectares of sugarcane plantations in Brazil's northern Sao Paulo state, the government said on Monday.
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) issued a statement late on Monday expressing deep concern "over the deteriorating situation in Libya resulting from unilateral decisions."
On Monday, US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the Russia-Ukraine war following Modi's visit to Ukraine, along with the situation in Bangladesh where protests led to the ousting of former leader Sheikh Hasina earlier this month.
Aviation officials from Asia are making a case for global action to reduce injuries from turbulence, with recent high-profile incidents driving calls to improve forecasting across borders.
Hopes of a Gaza ceasefire dimmed after Israel issued new evacuation orders for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, forcing more families to flee, saying forces intended to act against Hamas and others operating in the area.
At least 73 people were killed in Pakistan's province of Balochistan when armed men attacked police stations, railway lines and highways, and security forces launched retaliatory operations.
Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday, as Israel's military said it struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to thwart a larger attack, in one of the biggest clashes in more than 10 months of border warfare.
A Ukrainian drone attack has injured a woman and damaged several homes across two key cities of Russia's Saratov region, located around 900 km from the border, the governor of the region southeast of Moscow said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watched as new "suicide drones" took off and destroyed test targets including a mock tank, and urged researchers to develop artificial intelligence for the unmanned vehicles, state media reported on Monday.
On Sunday, Ukraine called on Belarus to pull back what it described as significant levels of Belarusian forces and equipment deployed at their common border.
China's actions in the South China Sea are "patently illegal", the Philippines' defence secretary said Monday, following a clash in disputed waters on Sunday over what Manila said was a resupply mission for fishermen.
There was no agreement on Sunday in the Gaza ceasefire talks that took place in Cairo, with neither Hamas nor Israel agreeing to several compromises presented by mediators, two Egyptian security sources said, casting doubt on the chances of success in the latest U.S.-backed effort to end the 10-month old war.
The Philippines and China clashed in disputed waters of the South China Sea on Sunday over what Manila said was a resupply mission for fishermen, the latest in a series of sea and air confrontations in the strategic waterway.
The Israel military said on Sunday that its fighter jets hit thousands of Hezbollah rocket launcher barrels in southern Lebanon that were aimed for immediate fire toward northern and central Israel.
Two NASA astronauts who flew to the International Space Station in June aboard Boeing's faulty Starliner capsule will need to return to Earth on a SpaceX vehicle early next year, NASA officials said on Saturday.
A man suspected of a stabbing rampage in the western German town of Solingen has been taken into police custody.
A Hamas delegation headed by its senior official Khalil al-Hayya will arrive in Cairo on Saturday to hear from mediators on the latest round of Gaza ceasefire talks that took place in the Egyptian capital, the Palestinian group said in a statement.
An Italian prosecutor has opened a manslaughter investigation into the deaths of British tech magnate Mike Lynch and six other people who were killed when a luxury yacht sank off Sicily this week.
German police said on Saturday that they were still searching for an unknown assailant hours after he killed three people and wounded others in a stabbing attack at a festival in the western city of Solingen.
A bomb blast in southwestern Pakistan killed two children and injured 16 people on Saturday, police officials said.
Russia has declared a state of emergency in part of the Voronezh region bordering Ukraine after an overnight drone attack, local governor Alexander Gusev said in his Telegram channel.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for global concerted action to control a new mpox outbreak, announcing a response plan that will require at least $135 million over the next six months.
Russia's security services shot dead four inmates on Friday who had taken hostages at a jail in Volgograd and fatally stabbed four of its staff.
Half of the passengers in a bus carrying 43 Indians died on Friday when the vehicle plunged into a rain-swollen river in neighbouring Nepal.
Italian rescue divers have found the body of the last person missing after British tech magnate Mike Lynch's family yacht sank off Sicily, believed to be his daughter Hannah.
India's Narendra Modi arrived in Kyiv on Friday for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky, the first trip by an Indian prime minister to Ukraine since Kyiv gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
On Friday, Thai rescuers continued to search forested terrain for the remains of nine people aboard a charter flight that crashed the day before, authorities said, with all the travellers presumed dead.
NASA said it expects to announce on Saturday its decision on whether the two astronauts who rode Boeing's glitchy Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station will need a SpaceX vehicle to return to Earth.
Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted the Democratic nomination for president with a rousing call to end the war in Gaza and to fight tyranny around the world, drawing a sharp contrast with Republican Donald Trump.
Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has charged a local man with cybercrime offences for spreading fake online information which fuelled riots in Britain, it said in a statement.
Alleged robbers armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades ambushed a police convoy in Rahim Yar Khan, southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least eleven officers and wounding others, the police and interior ministry said.
Vice President Kamala Harris sought to redefine herself for America and draw a sharp contrast with Republican Donald Trump on Thursday as she accepted the Democratic Party's 2024 presidential nomination.
Israel's military court has extended the house arrest of soldiers accused of abusing a Palestinian detainee until September 4 but will allow the defence to hold a hearing on Sunday to request an alternative to detention, the military said.
Russia's FSB security service said it had opened a criminal case against a journalist working for CNN who it said had illegally crossed the Russian border to film a report inside the Kursk region after a Ukrainian cross-border incursion.
A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted on Thursday, the meteorological office said, spraying red-hot lava and smoke in its sixth outbreak since December.
US and Israeli delegations started a new round of meetings in Cairo on Thursday aimed at resolving differences over a truce proposal to end more than 10 months of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
The body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved on Thursday from the wreck of his family yacht that sank earlier this week off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm, a senior Italian official said.
A fire at a hotel in South Korea killed six people and injured 11 others, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday, citing fire authorities.
More than 1,000 Indian opposition party supporters demonstrated in New Delhi, Mumbai and other state capitals on Thursday, demanding a probe into the market regulator chief's alleged conflict of interest in investigating the Adani Group.
The death toll from a river boat accident in western Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to at least 29 with at least 128 survivors identified and an unknown number still missing, local authorities say.
Three Palestinians have been killed by an Israeli strike on a house in the West Bank's Tulkarm refugee camp, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement.
The helicopter crash in which Iran's late President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in May was caused by weather conditions and the aircraft's inability to handle the weight it was carrying, Iran's semi-official news agency said, citing a security source informed of the final investigation results.
A Greek-flagged tanker went adrift in the Red Sea on Wednesday, after repeated attacks that started a fire on the vessel and caused the ship to lose power, the UK maritime agency said.
Protests are planned in Indonesia as parliament looks to annul changes to election laws made by the constitutional court, a reversal that could further strengthen the political influence of outgoing President Joko Widodo.
Four bodies were retrieved from the sunken wreck of a yacht belonging to the wife of British tech magnate Mike Lynch, the Italian fire brigade said, adding that they were continuing to search for two missing people.
On Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the urgency of sealing a deal for a truce in Gaza and the release of hostages, the White House said, but Israel and Hamas stuck firmly to their demands.
At least 15 people were killed in an explosion on Wednesday at a pharmaceuticals manufacturing plant in southern India's Andhra Pradesh state.
Three staff members of a high school in the western Bosnian town of Sanski Most were killed on Wednesday when a school employee shot them.
A 116-year-old Japanese woman has been named the world's oldest person by Guinness World Records, following the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas in Spain earlier this week.
Thailand has detected an mpox case in a European man who arrived from Africa last week and is awaiting test results to determine the strain, a disease control official said on Wednesday.
Ukraine attacked Moscow on Wednesday with at least 11 drones shot down by air defences in what Russian officials said was one of the biggest drone strikes on the capital since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The Taliban have barred United Nations-appointed special rapporteur Richard Bennett from entering Afghanistan, the administration's spokesperson told local broadcaster Tolo, accusing the human rights watchdog of "spreading propaganda".
Michelle Obama tore into Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention, criticising his character and racist attacks that have targeted her and her husband Barack in the past.
A bus carrying Pakistani pilgrims overturned in central Iran, killing 28 passengers and injuring another 23 people, state media reported on Wednesday.
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he will "share perspectives" on the peaceful resolution of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, during his visit to Kyiv this week.
Azerbaijan has formally applied to join the BRICS bloc, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the country, the Azeri Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced.
A recently detected mpox case in the Philippines is of the mild Clade 2 variant and not the newer variant that has spread rapidly in Africa, the Philippines' health minister said on Wednesday.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought to inject urgency into efforts to broker a Gaza ceasefire deal during a whirlwind trip to the Middle East, but departed the region with an agreement between Israel and Hamas still elusive.
Israel retrieved the bodies of six hostages from the Gaza Strip, the military said on Tuesday, as negotiations continued in an effort to bring back more than 100 captives who remain in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
Argentine authorities have quarantined a cargo ship in the Parana River over a suspected case of mpox onboard, the government said on Tuesday, as global public health authorities remain on alert for a new faster-spreading variant of the virus.
Rescue teams in Sicily resumed a search for six missing people, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter, after a luxury yacht was struck by a violent storm and sank on Monday, killing one on board.
Maria Branyas, who was the world's oldest person, has died peacefully in a Spanish nursing home at the age of 117.
India's Supreme Court created a hospital safety task force on Tuesday to recommend steps to ensure medical workers' safety.
Ukrainian forces have continued to advance into Russia’s Kursk region, the largest incursion into Russian territory since World War II. On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the goal of the offensive was to create a “buffer zone” to prevent Russian attacks from the border area. The statement comes after nearly two weeks of silence, since the start of the incursion on 6 August, from the leader regarding the operation.
President Joe Biden cemented the Democratic Party's embrace of Kamala Harris as its leader in the fight for the White House against Republican Donald Trump with a convention speech on Monday that hailed his vice president as the party's future.
Australia and Indonesia have signed a treaty-level defence cooperation agreement, which will allow the Australian and Indonesian militaries to operate from each other's countries, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
Taiwan showed off its missile firepower on Tuesday, launching a battery of surface-to-air missiles in front of reporters during a visit to a sensitive test site on a remote part of the island's southeastern coast.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted a "bridging proposal" presented by Washington to tackle disagreements blocking a ceasefire deal in Gaza on Monday, and urged Hamas to do the same.
Thousands of mostly peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters marched in Chicago on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Monday, against the Biden administration's support for Israel in the Gaza war.
A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea, crossing the militarised border in the eastern part of the Korean peninsula, Yonhap news agency reported, citing the South's military.
One man died and six people were missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, after a luxury yacht was struck by an unexpectedly violent storm and sank off Sicily early on Monday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ukraine, the Indian foreign ministry said, his first trip to the war-torn country since its conflict with Russia and about a month after he met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Israeli airstrikes on Yemen's Hodeidah port last month appeared to be an indiscriminate or disproportionate attack on civilians, which may amount to a war crime, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the latest diplomatic push by Washington to achieve a ceasefire deal in Gaza "probably the best, maybe the last opportunity," during his visit to Tel Aviv on Monday, and urged all parties to get the agreement over the finish line.
Ukrainian air forces destroyed another strategic bridge over the Seym River in Russia's Kursk region, limiting the supply capacity of a Russian group opposing the Ukrainian advance, Ukraine's commander said on Sunday.
The Philippines has detected a new case of the mpox virus, the first since December last year, its health department said on Monday. The authority added it was awaiting test results before being able to determine the strain.
Croatia is set to reintroduce a compulsory, two-month conscription from January 2025, Croatian Minister of Defense, Ivan Anusic, said.
China's President Xi Jinping held talks on Monday with Vietnam's new leader To Lam in Beijing on his first state visit since he took office, Chinese official media Xinhua said.
The union at Chile's Escondida copper mine, the world's largest, signed a deal on Sunday with BHP, ending the risk of a further strike that could have threatened global supplies of the red metal.
South Korea and the United States kicked off annual summertime military exercises on Monday, seeking to boost their joint readiness to fend off North Korea's weapons and cyber threats.
Outgoing Indonesian President Joko Widodo has appointed people close to his successor in a cabinet reshuffle, including new energy and investment ministers, two months before he is due to step down, he said on Monday.
The Philippines and China accused each other of ramming vessels and performing dangerous manoeuvres in the South China Sea on Monday, in the latest flare-up after the two nations had agreed to try to ease tensions and manage disagreements at sea.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to arrive in Israel on Sunday as part of Washington's intensifying diplomatic push to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza that will end the 10-month-old war between Israel and Hamas.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Sunday that Ukraine had stationed more than 120,000 troops at its border with Belarus and Minsk had deployed nearly a third of its armed forces along the entire border.
North Korea condemned Ukraine's incursion into Russia as an unforgivable act of terror backed by Washington and the West, adding it would always stand with Russia as it seeks to protect its sovereignty, state media said on Sunday.
Paetongtarn Shinawatra was endorsed as prime minister by Thailand's king on Sunday, two days after parliament elected her, paving the way for her to form a cabinet in the coming weeks.
Israel said it killed two senior Hamas leaders in an airstrike on their car in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, claiming they were involved in the killing of an Israeli.
Thailand's billionaire former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra received a royal pardon shortening his parole by two weeks, his lawyer said on Saturday, a day after his daughter was elected premier by parliament.
Russia's defence ministry accused Ukraine on Saturday of planning to attack the Kursk nuclear power plant and blamed such a "provocation" on Moscow.
The Gaza Civil Defence announced on Saturday that 15 people from one Palestinian family were killed in an Israeli air strike early Saturday in the central Gaza Strip, including nine children and three women.
Hospitals and clinics across India turned away patients except for emergency cases on Saturday as medical professionals started a 24-hour shutdown in protest against the brutal assault and murder of a doctor in the eastern city of Kolkata.
Italy's health ministry and South Korean authorities on Friday said that they had raised diagnostic surveillance for mpox, noting that the situation is under control.
The Health Ministry today registered the first case of poliovirus in the southern governorates of the war-torn Gaza Strip.
Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is finalising plans to visit the United States in late September for the UN General Assembly and a possible meeting with President Joe Biden.
Gaza ceasefire talks in Doha were paused on Friday with negotiators set to meet again next week in search of an agreement to end fighting between Israel and Hamas and free remaining hostages, mediators said.
A privately owned Fouga Magister jet crashed into the sea on Friday during an airshow near Lavandou, on France's Mediterranean coast.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have called for a seven-day humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to allow two rounds of a polio vaccination campaign for more than 640,000 children under the age of 10.
India will hold provincial elections in the Himalayan territory of Jammu and Kashmir from September 18, the first regional polls there in a decade and five years after New Delhi scrapped the region's special autonomy.
The Israeli army ordered a fresh evacuation of areas in southern and central Gaza previously designated as a humanitarian safe zone on Friday, saying the areas had been used by Hamas as a base for firing mortars and rockets towards Israel.
Russia's ambassador to Washington said he does not believe Ukraine would have attacked the Nord Stream gas pipelines without the tacit approval of the United States, and that Russia would identify and punish those behind the attack.
The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) said it has contingency measures in place to prevent a strike by the country's main aviation union that is set to begin on 19 August from disrupting airport operations.
On Friday, Thailand's 37-year-old Paetongtarn Shinawatra won the required majority of votes in the House of Representatives to become the country's next prime minister.
Hurricane Ernesto strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane as it barreled toward Bermuda threatening major damage over the weekend from powerful winds and heavy rain, after leaving hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans without power.
China will monitor people and goods entering the country for mpox for the next six months, a statement from its customs administration said, after the WHO said the virus was again a global health emergency.
US President Joe Biden seemingly backed a new election in Venezuela, after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also floated the idea, despite rejection from both Venezuela's ruling party and its opposition, which both claim victory in the July 28 contest.
Gaza negotiators are set to meet in the Qatari capital Doha again on Friday, in an effort to hammer out a ceasefire agreement as Israel continued to slam targets in the Palestinian enclave.
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck 34 km (21 miles) off Taiwan's eastern city of Hualien on Friday, the weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage from what was the second strong tremor to hit the island in less than a day.
Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian village near the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, burning cars and killing at least one person, authorities said on Thursday.
Sweden confirmed its first case of a new variant of the viral infection mpox on Thursday, which was also the first case outside Africa.
A new round of Gaza ceasefire talks was underway in the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday, with Israel's spy chief joining his US and Egyptian counterparts and Qatar's prime minister for the closed-door meeting.
Thailand's ruling alliance on Thursday backed the daughter of divisive tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra to become the next prime minister, a surprise move that could prolong a power struggle and reignite political turmoil.
Ksenia Karelina, a Russian-American spa worker, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday by a Russian court after she was found guilty of treason for donating money to a charity supporting Ukraine.
The health ministry in Gaza said on Thursday that the death toll has crossed 40,000 in the more than 10-month war between Israel and Hamas.
Japan on Thursday ended its call for higher-than-usual risks of a major earthquake, one week after a strong tremor on the edge of the Nankai Trough seabed zone caused the government to issue its first-ever megaquake advisory.
Russia began evacuating thousands more people from its border regions on Thursday after Ukraine said it was advancing deeper into the country in a lightning incursion aimed at forcing Moscow to slow its advance along the rest of the front.
Thirty-nine candidates for Sri Lanka's presidential election submitted nominations on Thursday as the Indian Ocean island nation prepares for a Sept. 21 vote key to charting its path out of a gruelling financial crisis.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday that Turkey will continue to support the Palestinian cause and push the international community to increase pressure on Israel, his office said.
Typhoon Ampil bore down on Tokyo on Thursday, prompting airlines to cancel hundreds of flights and railways to suspend part of their operations in the peak summer travel season.
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik resigned on Wednesday, nearly four months after the university's handling of campus protests over Israel's war in Gaza drew criticism from pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian sides alike.
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness declared a state of emergency in the Caribbean nation's southern Clarendon parish on Wednesday, after eight people were killed in separate gun attacks on Sunday night, including a seven-year-old boy.
About half of all homes and businesses in Puerto Rico have been without power since Wednesday, as Hurricane Ernesto churned north into the warm waters of the Atlantic after dumping torrential rain on the territory.
A spokesperson for Mali's Tuareg rebel alliance has said it received no external assistance in fighting in late July that dealt a significant blow to Mali's army and its Wagner partners, nor has it received any help from Ukraine.
Two French military jets collided in midair near Colombey-les-Belles, northeastern France, on Wednesday, killing two military personnel and leaving a sole survivor, French officials said.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak of the viral infection in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has spread to neighbouring countries.
Senior Kyiv officials said that Ukraine was creating a "buffer zone" in Russia's Kursk region and plans to organise humanitarian assistance and evacuation corridors for civilians looking to go either to Russia or to Ukraine.
Hospital services have been disrupted in several Indian cities since Tuesday after a doctors' protest spread nationwide following the sexual assault and murder of a trainee medic in the city of Kolkata, authorities and media said.
The governor of Russia's border area of Belgorod, on Wednesday, declared a region-wide state of emergency, citing continued attacks by Ukrainian forces.
Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday dismissed Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin for appointing to his cabinet a former lawyer who served jail time, raising the spectre of more political upheaval and a reset of the governing alliance.
Firefighters battled on Wednesday to extinguish the remnants of a wildfire near Athens that killed a woman, torched buildings, devoured woodland and forced thousands of people to flee their homes.
A New Zealand charity apologised on Wednesday for distributing dozens of pineapple-flavoured sweets that were found to be laced with potentially lethal amounts of methamphetamine.
The United States, on Tuesday, approved the sale of $20 billion in fighter jets and other military equipment to Israel, although the Pentagon said deliveries would not begin for years.
Workers at the world’s largest copper mine in northern Chile have gone on strike on Tuesday, hours after failing to reach an agreement with Australian group BHP, according to their union.
US-mediated Sudan ceasefire talks are expected to begin in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday, despite the army's rejection of the invitation.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will step down as ruling party leader in September, it was announced on Wednesday, ending a three-year term marked by rising prices and political scandals.
Far-right Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, on Tuesday, visited the Al-Aqsa mosque compound known to Jews as Temple Mount, and said Jews should be allowed to pray there, freshly challenging rules covering one of the most sensitive sites in the Middle East.
Africa's top public health body declared what it termed a "public health emergency of continental security" on Tuesday over an outbreak of mpox that has spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo to neighbouring countries.
A Bangladesh court has ordered an investigation into former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's role in the death of a grocery shop owner in the capital Dhaka during last month's deadly student-led protests.
Ukraine pummelled two Russian regions with drones as its ground forces tried to smash through defensive lines in a bid to carve out even more territory in its biggest attack on Russian territory since the conflict began.
Hospital services were disrupted in several Indian cities on Tuesday, after the nationwide spread of a doctors' protest against the alleged rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor in the eastern city of Kolkata.
Three Afghan civilians were killed in a border clash between Pakistan and Afghanistan security forces, a spokesman for the Taliban administration in Kabul said on Tuesday.
Greece's worst wildfire of the year killed one person and continued to burn on the outskirts of the capital Athens on Tuesday, although lighter winds and firefighting efforts had helped reduce its intensity, authorities said.
Israeli bombardment continues to be reported across much of the Gaza Strip, resulting in further civilian casualties, displacement, and destruction of houses and other civilian infrastructure, according to a UN Humanitarian Situation Update.
Venezuela’s opposition party has called for worldwide protests on August 17, against President Nicolas Maduro’s re-election.
One Israeli male hostage was killed by his guard and two women captives were seriously wounded in two separate incidents in Gaza, the spokesperson for Hamas' armed al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Ubaida, said on Monday.
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck Jordan and Syria late on Monday, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), with residents across both countries and in Lebanon feeling its impacts.
A Palestinian opened fire at an Israeli civilian in the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya, wounding him and two Palestinians, before being killed by Israeli troops, the Israeli military said on Monday.
Pakistan's military said on Monday it had arrested retired general Faiz Hameed, former head of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, in connection with a land development case.
Kenya's main aviation union said that it was calling a strike from early next week to demand the scrapping of a proposed deal with India's Adani Airport Holdings to develop the east African country's main airport.
At least 39,897 Palestinians were killed and 92,152 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Monday.
South Korea has deployed a bedbug sniffer dog at its main Incheon international airport in a bid to reduce the risk of the tiny insects entering the country when athletes, officials and fans return from the Paris Olympics.
A fast-moving wildfire fuelled by gale-force winds spread to the edge of Athens on Monday, torching trees, houses and cars and forcing evacuations of several hospitals and a dozen towns and villages, Greek authorities said.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, on Saturday and Sunday, against the reinstatement of a controversial lithium mine project
Six people have died and ten others have been injured after a lightning strike in Jiangsu Province, eastern China.
Russia on Monday evacuated parts of another region next to Ukraine after Kyiv sharply increased military activity near the border just days after its biggest incursion into sovereign Russian territory since the start of the 2022 war.
Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of starting a fire on the grounds of Europe's largest and now Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine on Sunday, with both sides reporting no sign of elevated radiation.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the deployment of a guided missile submarine to the Middle East, the Pentagon said on Sunday, amid fears of a retaliatory attack by Iran.
A helicopter crashed into the roof of a hotel in the popular northern Australian tourist town of Cairns, killing the pilot and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of guests, authorities said on Monday.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine had launched an incursion into Russian territory to "restore justice" and pressure Moscow's forces, in his first acknowledgement of Kyiv's surprise offensive into the western Kursk region.
Israel expanded evacuation orders in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip overnight, forcing tens of thousands of Palestinian residents and displaced families to leave in the dark as explosions from tank shelling reverberated around them.
The death toll from a landslide at a vast garbage dump in Uganda's capital Kampala has risen to 13, police said on Sunday, as rescue personnel continued to dig for survivors.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Sunday condemned Chinese air force actions in waters of the South China Sea claimed by both countries, calling the actions "unjustified, illegal and reckless".
A 4-year-old boy and his 35-year-old father died when debris from a downed Russian weapon fell on the house they were living in near the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
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