Wang's meetings with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US national security advisor Jake Sullivan spanning over two days totaled nine hours, US officials said, describing these interactions as "candid and in-depth".

The body of Robert R. Card, 40, was discovered in the woods near the neighboring town of Lisbon Falls, near where police found his abandoned vehicle shortly after the shooting spree on Wednesday night.

Three people were killed and another wounded in a shooting between migrants near Serbia’s border with Hungary yesterday, state-run television RTS reported.

Malaysia's royalty on Friday chose an influential sultan from the southern state of Johor to be the country's next king.

The US military struck two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday.

Hamas's armed wing said today that "almost 50" Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip since the October 7 attacks have been killed in Israeli bombing raids on the Palestinian territory

Al Jazeera said the wife, son and daughter of one of its correspondents in Gaza were killed on Wednesday night in an Israeli air strike that the Hamas-run enclave's health ministry said killed at least 25 people

Louisiana's Mike Johnson, a staunch ally of Donald Trump, has been elected as the 56th Speaker of the US Congress

The number of people worldwide living in forced displacement from their homes is estimated to have exceeded 114 million -- a record figure, the United Nations said yesterday.

India will resume some visa services in Canada with effect from October 26, its High Commission said yesterday, in a move that could reduce tensions caused by the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada.

Israel has agreed to delay an expected invasion of Gaza for now so that the United States can rush missile defences to the region to protect its troops there, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing US and Israeli officials

Three separate armed attacks in Mexico on Monday left at least 24 people dead, including a dozen police officers, authorities said about the latest violence to hit regions plagued by drug trafficking.

The Kremlin yesterday denied a report that President Vladimir Putin was ill, and laughed off persistent rumours that he used body doubles to cover for him in public appearances.

Says Gaza health ministry

The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said Tuesday that 5,791 people have been killed in the territory since the outbreak of war with Israel

Thirty-eight people were sentenced to death in Algeria yesterday over the lynching of a man who was accused of arson while trying to fight deadly wildfires.

More than 19,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon amid an uptick in tensions between Israel and Hezbollah at the country’s southern border, figures released yesterday by a United Nations agency showed.

Bobi, the world’s oldest dog, has died aged 31 in Portugal, Guinness World Records said yesterday. A purebred Rafeiro Alentejano who spent his entire life in a village in central Portugal, Bobi lived for 31 years and 165 days, breaking a record held since 1939 by an Australian cattle-dog that died at 29 years and five months.

China's embassy in Manila said Monday it had lodged a complaint with the Philippines, after two collisions between Philippine and Chinese vessels in the disputed South China Sea

China's top spy agency said on Sunday a Chinese citizen who worked for a defense institute had been accused of spying for the United States and his case had been transferred to a court in the southwestern city of Chengdu for trial