Russian President Vladimir Putin met India’s national security advisor on Thursday, a day after Washington hiked tariffs on New Delhi over its purchases of Moscow’s oil.
US President Donald Trump said his special envoy Steve Witkoff had made “great progress” in his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Washington to ramp up pressure on Russia to end its invasion during a visit to Moscow by US envoy Steve Witkoff....
The Israeli military will have to execute any government decisions on Gaza, the defence minister said after reported disagreements over the prospect of a full occupation of the Palestinian territory....
Beijing on Monday warned residents in its mountainous suburbs to brace for another round of heavy rainfall, a week after catastrophic floods killed dozens in the deadliest deluge to hit the Chinese capital since 2012....
The United States on Monday issued a security alert after heavy gunfire erupted near its embassy in Haiti, with the impoverished Caribbean country engulfed by escalating gang violence....
As it grinds on well into its twenty-second month, Israel’s war in Gaza has set friends and families against one another and sharpened existing political and cultural divides....
Hamas said that it would not disarm unless an independent Palestinian state is established - a fresh rebuke to a key Israeli demand to end the war in Gaza....
Hundreds of retired Israeli security officials including former heads of intelligence agencies have urged US President Donald Trump to pressure their own government to end the war in Gaza....
US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff held talks in Israel on Thursday on ways to end the crisis in Gaza, where nearly 22 months of grinding war and dire shortages of food have drawn mounting international criticism....
US envoy Steve Witkoff on Saturday met the anguished families of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza, as fears for the captives’ survival mounted almost 22 months into the war sparked by Hamas’ October 2023 attack....
A viral video claimed to show a deadly tsunami triggered by a record-breaking earthquake in Russia’s Far East. But the footage - shared widely across Asia - was actually filmed years ago in Durban, South Africa, and has no link to the recent disaster...
Australia’s spy chief has singled out Russia as an “aggressive espionage threat”, saying several Moscow-linked intelligence officers have been caught and expelled in recent years....
US President Donald Trump on Friday said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in regions near Russia in response to threats from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev....
Israel is evacuating most of its diplomatic mission staff in the United Arab Emirates, Israeli media reported, after Israel’s National Security Council sharpened its travel warning for Israelis staying in the Gulf country....
The death toll from Russia’s missile and drone strikes on Kyiv has risen to 26, including three children, Ukraine’s interior ministry said....
The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad published a video of an Israeli-German hostage who was abducted and taken to Gaza in October 2023 during the attack that sparked the war in the territory....
After hearing that a nearby convenience store had been hit by shelling from Cambodia last week, Koon Kantho quickly packed her essentials, locked up her home and scurried to safety at a relative’s house with her family....
The US must agree to compensate Iran for losses incurred during the June war, the Financial Times reported, citing Iran’s foreign minister, as Tehran adopts a tougher stance and sets new conditions for restarting nuclear negotiations....
A Russian strike on a military training camp killed at least three Ukrainian soldiers, following an overnight offensive in the south that killed a pregnant woman and a dozen prisoners....
Authorities in French Polynesia warned the population of several of the Marquesas Islands to expect tsunami waves up to 4m high after a huge quake off Russia’s Far east....
At least 20 people were killed and more than 40 wounded in overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine, regional officials said....
The 8.8 magnitude quake off Russia that triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific occurred on what is known as a “megathrust fault”, where the denser Pacific Plate is sliding underneath the lighter North American Plate, scientists said....
The Gaza Strip, largely deprived of electricity by Israel since the start of the war, appears seven times less bright at night than before October 7, 2023, according to AFP analysis of NASA satellite data....
Hawaiian authorities have seen no sign of a significant wave since beginning preparations for a tsunami after a powerful earthquake struck off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, governor Josh Green said....
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, damaging buildings and generating a tsunami of up to 4 m that prompted warnings and evacuations stretching across the Pacific Ocean....
Top US and Chinese economic officials met in Stockholm on Monday to resume talks to resolve longstanding economic disputes at the centre of a trade war between the world’s top two economies, aiming to extend a truce by three months....
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said that Hamas must disarm and give up control of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority to restore security in the war-torn territory....
A Russian overnight air attack on Kyiv wounded eight residents of an apartment building, including a 3-year-old child, authorities in the Ukrainian capital said....
Thailand and Cambodia’s leaders are due to meet for peace talks as a festering territorial dispute along their shared frontier dragged into a fifth day of open combat....