Six Malian soldiers have been killed in an attack by “armed terrorist groups” in the north of the country, according to an army report.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s ruling coalition thwarted a challenge by an opposition alliance in state elections, official results showed yesterday, with analysts saying the win would buy him time to consolidate power in the Southeast Asian nation.

Thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance left over from Cambodia’s civil war have been unearthed inside a school in the country’s northeast, authorities said yesterday.

The death toll from a landslide triggered by heavy rains in northern China has risen to at least 21, authorities said yesterday, with six others missing.

Western naval forces operating in the Gulf warned ships sailing in the strategic Strait of Hormuz against approaching Iranian waters to avoid the risk of seizure, according to statements issued over the weekend.

Two separatist militants were killed yesterday when they attacked a convoy carrying Chinese workers to a Beijing-financed port project in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, officials said.

Israel yesterday ruled out a diplomatic base in Jerusalem for the new Saudi envoy to the Palestinians, whose appointment comes as Washington tries to forge formal Israeli relations with Riyadh.

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Pakistan’s caretaker government under interim Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar will oversee a general election after the dissolution of the lower house of parliament. Kakar and his cabinet will run the government until a national election is held and the winner can secure a parliamentary majority and select a new PM.

The death toll from a horrific wildfire in Hawaii climbed to 80 as residents confronted the devastation and criticisms grew Saturday over the emergency response.

Malaysians in six states went to the polls yesterday to vote for state assembly members in elections widely seen as a barometer of support for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government.

A security alert yesterday prompted the evacuation of three floors of the Eiffel Tower in central Paris, France’s most emblematic symbol which drew 6.2 million visitors last year.

At least two Tunisians including a baby died when their boat sank yesterday soon after leaving the country’s shores, the coastguard said, amid a spike in attempts to reach Europe.

Six people were killed when a boat carrying migrants heading to Britain sank in the Channel early yesterday, French maritime officials said, as a search continued to find those still missing.

Russia launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years on Friday amid a race by major powers including the United States, China and India to discover more about the elements held on the earth's only natural satellite

An attack by Islamic State group jihadists on Syrian government forces in the war-torn country's east has killed 33 soldiers, a monitor said Saturday, revising an earlier toll of 26 deaths

At least 26 soldiers have been killed in war-torn Syria’s east, a monitor said yesterday, the deadliest in a new wave of attacks blamed on Islamic State group jihadists.

Armenia said yesterday that Azerbaijan was still blocking aid deliveries to Armenian-populated settlements in Nagorno-Karabakh, and warned this risked “nullifying” the prospect of peace between the two countries.

Railing against former prime minister Imran Khan for running a hybrid regime, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has admitted that even his government could not run without support from the military.

West African nations yesterday worked on plans for a possible military intervention in Niger following an army coup there although they have not given up hope of a peaceful resolution to a crisis that has shaken the region.