Outlawed Kurdish militants yesterday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of armed struggle.

Zelensky and Trump clashed at a White House meeting that ended in disaster on Friday, prompting an outpouring of reaction from across the globe

US President Trump has long been a critic of the United States's billions in aid for Ukraine after Russia invaded it in February 2022

A bomb blast at an Islamic seminary in northwestern Pakistan known as a historic training ground for the Afghan Taliban killed six worshippers during Friday prayers, police said yesterday.

India and the European Union yesterday agreed to conclude a free trade deal by the end of the year, their first commitment to a deadline on talks that have been going for years, as they look to soften the effect of tariff increases from the United States.

The UN children’s agency Unicef said yesterday that it was studying the impact of drastic US aid cuts, with millions of children already affected by the funding freeze imposed last month.

The United States issued a security alert to its citizens in Thailand yesterday, warning of the possible risk of reprisal attacks after the kingdom deported dozens of Uyghurs to China.

South Sudan’s leaders are fuelling violence and instability in the young nation, a critical United Nations report said yesterday.

Bosnian officials yesterday lambasted ethnic Serb leader Milorad Dodik for attacking the country’s institutions, after he was convicted in a landmark trial for defying rulings made by an international envoy.

Nicaragua announced on Thursday its withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council, after experts appointed by the organization accused President Daniel Ortega’s government of widespread repression.

Nations cheered a last-gasp deal to map out funding to protect nature Thursday, breaking a deadlock at UN talks seen as a test for international cooperation in the face of geopolitical tensions.

A suicide attack at an Islamic religious school in Pakistan known as the "University of Jihad" -- where key Taliban leaders have studied -- killed four people today, police said

Republican President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, who oversees the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, are spearheading an unprecedented effort to shrink the federal bureaucracy, including through job cuts.

A week ago Donald Trump branded Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator. On Friday he will host the Ukrainian president at the White House and sign a deal granting Washington access to Ukraine's rare minerals

Nations cheered a last-gasp deal to map out nature funding to 2030 Thursday, breaking a deadlock at UN talks seen as a test for international cooperation in the face of geopolitical tensions

Gene Hackman, the intense character actor who won two Oscars in a more than 60-year career, has died alongside his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, and their dog at home, the sheriff’s office in Santa Fe, New Mexico, said yesterday.

The EU’s top team arrived in India on an “unprecedented” visit yesterday, aiming to broaden commercial and diplomatic ties and hedge against souring relations with the United States.

US President Donald Trump posted a video on his Truth Social account late on Tuesday, which appears to have been created with generative AI, promoting the transformation of Gaza into a Gulf state-like resort featuring a golden statue of himself, a hummus-eating Elon Musk, and shirtless American and Israeli leaders lounging on a beach.

More than half a million people in Afghanistan were displaced due to climate disasters in 2024, the International Organization for Migration said in a country report published on Tuesday.

Hamas yesterday called on Israel to enter negotiations for the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire after the group handed over the bodies of four hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.