The leaders of the United States, Australia and Britain revealed details of a plan to offer Australia nuclear-powered attack submarines.  In a joint statement on Monday, US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

Ukraine and Russia have reported inflicting heavy losses as the battle for Bakhmut rages on. Moscow has been trying to take the eastern Ukrainian city for months in a grinding war of attrition. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces had suffered more than 1,100

More than 30 people have been killed in a monastery in Myanmar's southern Shan State, an insurgent group said. Troops shelled the Nan Nein village on Saturday, the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) said. Myanmar has seen a growing number of deadly battles between its

The Iranian authorities have promised that whoever is behind the poisoning of Iranian schoolgirls will be mercilessly punished — but the government has lost all credibility with the people. "We're getting reports from Iran almost every day about more schoolgirls being

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken part in what some are calling the biggest protest in the country's history. Protests against government plans for a radical overhaul of the judicial system have been running for 10 weeks. Record numbers of demonstrators turned out in

France's Senate, the upper chamber of parliament, has voted to approve a controversial reform to the country's pension system, a cornerstone of Emmanuel Macron's second term as president. Senators passed the reforms late on Saturday by 195 votes to 112, bringing the package

A blast hit the capital of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province on Saturday, police said, killing one person and wounding five a few days after the death of the province’s governor in an explosion claimed by the militant group Islamic State. “A blast has taken place

A 26-year-old man in Nepal had to undergo surgery to get a Vodka bottle removed from his stomach, according to a media report on Friday. Rautahat police have arrested one person in connection with an incident wherein a man was detected with a vodka bottle in his stomach during a

The Italian coastguard has launched multiple rescue operations to save hundreds of refugees packed aboard boats off the Calabria region, less than two weeks after at least 73 people drowned in a shipwreck. “The rescue operations … are particularly complex due to the large

Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies within two months, according to Iranian and Saudi state media. The agreement was reached on Friday during talks in Beijing. Iranian state media posted images and video of Ali Shamkhani,

The man nominated as China's next premier by President Xi Jinping has been formally elected by parliament. Li Qiang, the former Communist Party leader of the country's biggest city of Shanghai, will now lead the government, replacing retiring Li Keqiang. The 63-year-old

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is seeking to extend his two decades in power, on Friday formally set the country’s parliamentary and presidential elections for May 14 — a month earlier than scheduled despite last month’s devastating earthquake. The

North Korea on Thursday fired a short-range ballistic missile toward waters off its western coast, South Korea’s military said. The launch came as the United States and South Korea prepare to hold their biggest combined military training exercises in years next week to counter

Addressing an investment forum this week, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said his administration would not tolerate corruption regardless of an official’s rank or political connections and pledged to tackle misconduct “without fear or favour”. Less than 48

Seven people were reported dead and at least eight injured in Hamburg after a shooting in a Jehovah’s Witness church just after 9pm on Thursday evening. Hamburg police found 17 uninjured people in the building and warned that one or more perpetrators might still be at large. As

Xi Jinping was handed a third term as Chinese president on Friday, capping a rise that has seen him become the country’s most powerful leader in generations. The appointment by China’s rubber-stamp parliament comes after Xi locked in another five years as head of the

Ram Chandra Paudel, a senior leader of the Nepali Congress, has been elected the third President of the country. Federal and provincial lawmakers voted Paudel as the country’s new President on Thursday. Out of 52,628 votes by weightage, Paudel secured 33,802 votes while Subas

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians near a village close to the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, without giving details. According to residents quoted by Palestinian radio, Israeli forces also raided the village of Jaba, south of

Australia is expected to announce it will buy as many as five US Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines in the 2030s as part of a landmark Pacific security pact with the United States and the United Kingdom, according to four US officials. Under the so-called AUKUS agreement, at

Russia has launched missiles at targets across Ukraine, from Kharkiv in the north to Odesa in the south and Zhytomyr in the west. Buildings and infrastructure were hit in Kharkiv and Odesa, with power blackouts in several areas. Attacks on the capital Kyiv are also reported. The