Faced with the dilemma of who to recognise as Myanmar’s legitimate representative following February’s coup, World Health Organization members yesterday opted to exclude the country from their annual assembly.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said he had asked the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to ensure greater “competition” in June elections after many prominent hopefuls were barred from running. “

New York prosecutors have convened a grand jury that is expected to decide whether to indict former president Donald Trump, suggesting they may have found evidence of a crime, US media reported Tuesday.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko yesterday said a journalist pulled off a plane that landed in Minsk had been plotting a bloody rebellion, and accused the West of waging a hybrid war against him.

The UN Human Rights Council will consider launching a broad, international investigation into abuses in the latest Gaza conflict and also into “systematic” abuses, according to a proposal as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Cairo to strengthen efforts to shore up ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.

WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force yesterday that experts say would compel Facebook’s messaging app to break privacy protections, sources said.

The European Union is partly to blame for deaths of migrants taking boats across the Mediterranean due to unanswered distress calls, obstruction of humanitarian rescue efforts, and so-called “pushbacks” to Libya, the United Nations said yesterday.

The United States topped a list of the countries most frequently targeted by deceptive foreign influence operations using Facebook between 2017 and 2020, the social media company said in a new report released on Wednesday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser said his ex-boss failed in the COVID-19 crisis and ministers fell “disastrously short” of the standards the public had a right to expect during the most devastating global pandemic in decades.

UN Headquarters will tomorrow observe the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, including honouring eight Bangladeshis who have lost their lives since 1948.

U.S. wrestling superstar and actor John Cena apologised to Chinese fans on Tuesday after calling Taiwan a country during an interview to promote his latest movie "Fast & Furious 9".

President Joe Biden and President Vladimir Putin will hold their first summit next month in Geneva, the White House said Tuesday, setting the stage for a new chapter in the fraught US-Russian relationship.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is mired in a funding shortage that is already hampering operations, its top emergency expert told health ministers yesterday as countries called for a more in-depth investigation of the pandemic origins.

Australia yesterday abruptly announced it will shutter its embassy in Afghanistan this week, expressing fears over the “increasingly uncertain security environment” in Kabul as foreign troops withdraw.

A powerful cyclone headed for eastern India yesterday, forcing the evacuation of nearly two million people just a week after another huge storm claimed at least 155 lives on the west coast.

Belarus’s regime was increasingly isolated yesterday as Europe cut air links and calls grew for more action over its diversion of an airliner and arrest of a dissident on board.

Expanding its diplomatic footprints in the strategic Indian Ocean nation the Maldives, India is all set to open a new Consulate in Addu city, which is the second largest urban area after capital Male, in a country where China is increasingly assertive.

Iran’s election watchdog has approved the candidacy of hardline judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi in presidential elections, state television reported on Tuesday, while disqualifying some of his main potential rivals.

Messaging app WhatsApp has blocked the accounts of dozens of Palestinian journalists following this month’s fighting between Israel and Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas, reporters said. Shortly after a ceasefire went into effect at 2:00am on Friday (2300 GMT Thursday) ending 11 days of deadly conflict, two journalists in AFP’s Gaza City bureau received notices from WhatsApp in Arabic informing them their accounts had been blocked.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday vowed to rebuild US relations with Palestinians by reopening a consulate in Jerusalem and giving millions in aid to help the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.