Italy on Wednesday pressed the United Nations for answers about the attack on a U.N. food aid convoy in Congo that left a young ambassador and his paramilitary police bodyguard dead.

Sixty-two inmates have died in riots at prisons in three cities in Ecuador as a result of fights between rival gangs and an escape attempt, authorities said Tuesday.

Facebook will restore Australian news pages, ending an unprecedented week-long blackout after wringing concessions from the government over a proposed law that will require tech giants to pay traditional media companies for their content.

Nepal’s Supreme Court yesterday overturned the prime minister’s decision to dissolve parliament, terming the move unconstitutional.

Facebook yesterday said it will lift a contentious ban on Australian news and pay local media companies for content, after a last-gasp deal on pending landmark legislation.

Canadian MPs have voted to label Beijing’s treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang as genocide, a move angrily slammed by China yesterday as a “malicious provocation.”

Hong Kong yesterday announced plans to ramp up the ideological vetting of politicians and officials, with anyone seen to be disloyal to China or a national security threat barred from office.

US authorities arrested the wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on Monday at an airport outside of Washington on narcotics smuggling charges, the Justice Department said. Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, faces one charge of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for importation into the United States, the department said.

A New Delhi court yesterday granted bail to 22-year-old climate activist, saying there was “scanty and sketchy evidence” of sedition in her efforts to help farmers protest in a case that has drawn global attention.

Three years after a deadly virus struck India’s endangered Asiatic lions in their last remaining natural habitat, conservationists are hunting for new homes to help booming prides roam free.

President Joe Biden ordered flags lowered to half mast Monday after the United States crossed the “heartbreaking” milestone of 500,000 Covid-19 deaths, while Britain eyed lifting lockdowns in the latest sign of global gains against the pandemic.

Sri Lanka’s ex-president and his intelligence chiefs should be prosecuted for failing to prevent suicide bombings two years ago on Easter Sunday that killed 279 people, according to an investigation released yesterday.

The World Health Organization yesterday blasted wealthy countries for not only hogging Covid vaccines but in doing so, hindering the pathway for poorer nations to get them too.

Iran yesterday hailed a visit by the UN nuclear watchdog chief and a temporary agreement on site inspections as a “significant achievement”, amid international efforts to salvage its troubled nuclear deal.

UN chief Antonio Guterres yesterday criticised countries that are using the pandemic to justify cracking down on dissent, reining in the media and suppressing criticism.

Launching a frontal attack on the Mamata Banerjee government, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged yesterday it has perpetuated “syndicate raj” in all spheres of life in West Bengal where no work gets done without common people having to pay “cut money”.

Global tech firms in Australia unveiled a new code of practice yesterday to curb the spread of disinformation online, following pressure from the government.

Four women aid workers were gunned down yesterday in a restive part of northwestern Pakistan, police said, as a fresh wave of extremist violence rattles the Afghan borderlands.

The US Supreme Court yesterday paved the way for a New York City prosecutor to obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns and other

The United States will seek to strengthen and extend the agreement between world powers and Iran aimed at curbing its nuclear programme, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.