President Cyril Ramaphosa had nothing to say about Ukraine, but China and others were firm enough for Kyiv to say Russia had failed to gather the support it sought.
Israel unleashed a wave of air strikes on Hezbollah's southern Beirut stronghold, Lebanese state media said, as the Iran-Hezbollah war reached its one-month mark....
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a strategic missile base, state media said, releasing images of him viewing transport and launch vehicles for the country's largest and most powerful intercontinental ballistic weapons....
Donald Trump may have become involved with a porn star, but if elected president he could try shutting down the entire industry, adult film stars are warning in a push to get young men to vote against the Republican next month....
Well-wishers cover the grave of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny with flowers every day, showing he still has "huge numbers of supporters", his widow Yulia Navalnaya said....
President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived in Kazan on Tuesday for a jam-packed BRICS summit that, Russian host Vladimir Putin said, will not be anti-Western because it won't be about the West at all....
China's military began a live-fire exercise near Taiwan, maintaining pressure on the self-ruled island after staging large-scale drills and President Xi Jinping called for troops to prepare for war....
Frustrated with the dwindling prospect of reaching a ceasefire deal in the year-long Gaza war, some Israeli entrepreneurs have sought a different avenue to release hostages - offering a financial reward for those who choose to free them....
Russian strikes on the northeast Ukrainian city of Kharkiv wounded at least 12 people and cut power to part of the city, local officials and police said....
Two Israeli air strikes targeted south Beirut after the Israeli army warned civilians to evacuate the stronghold of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, state media said....
Russia and Ukraine carried out a new exchange of prisoners of war on Friday, each side bringing home 95 prisoners in an agreement in which the United Arab Emirates (UAE) acted as mediator....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the killing of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip was the "beginning of the end" of the year-long war in the Palestinian territory....
The United States warned Israel on the possibility of withholding some assistance barring improvements in aid delivery to Palestinians in Gaza, the State Department said Tuesday....
A Russian man was found alive after drifting for two months on an inflatable boat while another man and a teenage boy died, prosecutors said Tuesday....
Israel expanded its targets in its war with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 21 people in an airstrike in the north....
China's military launched a new round of war games near Taiwan on Monday, saying it was surrounding the island with planes and ships to warning against "separatist acts of Taiwan independence forces"....
Russia's Vladimir Putin held talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday in Turkmenistan, where the two leaders hailed their countries growing economic ties and similar views on world affairs....
President Cyril Ramaphosa will rub shoulders with the leaders of Iran, China, and the UN, but not Saudi Arabia in Kazan later this month....
The Kremlin on Thursday confirmed claims that then-US president Donald Trump sent Russian President Vladimir Putin Covid tests, but said it was part of an international exchange at the start of the pandemic....
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday met new NATO secretary general Mark Rutte in London, in a trilateral meeting with host UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer....
Russian military intelligence is seeking to cause "mayhem" across Britain and Europe, the UK's domestic spy chief said on Tuesday, while a growing threat from al Qaeda and Islamic State was his greatest terrorism concern....
Iran warned Israel on Tuesday against any attacks on the Islamic Republic a week after Tehran fired a barrage of missiles on it, putting the Middle East on edge....
Mourners and leaders around the world on Monday voiced horror and a desire for peace at tearful memorials remembering the unprecedented October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel that sparked a year of devastating war in Gaza....
For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, confrontation with Iran and its proxies offers the chance of political redemption at home, even at the risk of a regional war, a year after the 7 October attack demolished his reputation...
Israelis on Monday marked the first anniversary of the devastating Hamas attack that triggered a war which has sparked protest worldwide and risks igniting a far wider conflict in the Middle East....
A destabilised Middle East, and war after war, likely scenarios if Netanyahu gets his way....
A Russian guided bomb struck a five-storey apartment block in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, starting fires and injuring at least 10 people, local officials said....
The United States warned Iran at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday against targeting it or Israel as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the "deadly cycle of tit-for-tat violence must stop" in the Middle East....
Iran said that its missile attack on Israel was over barring further provocation, while Israel and the US promised to retaliate against Tehran as fears of a wider war intensified....
The Israeli army said that troops have started "ground raids" in villages in southern Lebanon, after militant group Hezbollah said it had targeted "enemy soldiers" at the countries' border....
Even as rocket fire from Hezbollah in Lebanon saw parts of northern Israel evacuated, and major cities were targeted from both Gaza and Iran, South Africans continued to move to Israel in their hundreds, the country's latest statistics show....