Iran’s acting foreign minister Ali Bagheri said on Monday his government was engaged in negotiations with arch-foe the United States hosted by the Gulf sultanate of Oman. Asked about the issue at a news conference during a visit to Beirut, Bagheri said “we have always

Germany said on Tuesday it was considering allowing deportations to Afghanistan, after an asylum seeker from the country injured five and killed a police official in a knife attack. Officials had been carrying out an “intensive review for several months… to allow the

French President Emmanuel Macron will host Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday in Paris for talks on the war-battered nation’s needs, the Elysee palace announced. “As Russian strikes intensify on the front line and against energy infrastructure, the two

At least 15 people have been killed in Israeli ground and air attacks on the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps in central Gaza, a Palestinian health official has said. “More than 15 martyrs and dozens of injuries reached the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the last several

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer have faced off in the first TV debate of the general election, with heated exchanges over tax, the NHS and immigration. The Conservative and Labour leaders got scrappy at times, forcing the host of the ITV event to intervene and urge the pair to

President Joe Biden has issued sweeping new executive actions aimed at curbing record migrant arrivals at the US-Mexico border that have left him politically vulnerable in an election year. Under the new actions, officials can quickly remove migrants entering the US illegally without

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost its national majority after suffering major losses in key states, marking a dramatic shift in a political landscape it has dominated for the past decade. The BJP emerged, comfortably, as the country’s

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed victory for a third term on Tuesday, he said in a statement on social media. "People have placed their faith in NDA (National Democratic Alliance) for a third consecutive time", Modi wrote on social media platform X. "This

The BJP will form the next government but it has squeaked home by a much smaller majority than it was hoping for. It took hits in two of the county’s biggest states – Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. In Bengal, where the polls appeared to be going the BJP’s way there was a

Twelve people have died in flooding caused by torrential rain on South Africa's eastern coast, local authorities said on Monday. In Eastern Cape province, "the death toll is currently sitting at seven," a spokesperson from Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, at the heart of

Nearly one million foreign pilgrims arrived in Saudi Arabia for the upcoming annual pilgrimage of Hajj. By the end of Sunday, a total of 935,966 Hajj pilgrims arrived through all the Kingdom’s air, land and sea ports, according to the General Directorate of Passports (Jawazat).

The United States on Monday announced a draft Security Council resolution supporting the Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan outlined by Joe Biden last week, urging Hamas to accept it. “Numerous leaders and governments, including in the region, have endorsed this plan,” said US

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been acquitted of leaking state secrets but will remain in jail because of a conviction in another case. In the run-up to elections in February, the 71-year-old - who was ousted as prime minister in 2022 - was hit with three prison

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) will allow recruits from a handful of foreign countries, including the UK, to help grow its ranks. Australia has been struggling with recruitment shortfalls, as it seeks to beef up its armed forces in the face of what it says are growing regional

Israel's military says it has established the deaths of four more people abducted by Hamas on 7 October. It says the four were killed while together during an Israeli operation in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, adding that their bodies were still being held by the militants. The

India's marathon election enters its final phase on Tuesday with the counting of more than 640 million votes in the world's largest democratic exercise, which was widely expected to return Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a third term after a decade in power. The 6-week-long

The top editor at The Washington Post, Sally Buzbee, has stepped down after three years at the helm of one of the most storied publications in the United States. Buzbee will be replaced by Matt Murray, a former editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, until the conclusion of the

China has accused UK's Secret Intelligence Service MI6 of recruiting Chinese state employees as spies. In a post on its official WeChat channel, China's Ministry of State Security said MI6 operatives turned a Chinese man identified only by his surname Wang and his wife surnamed

The US has "every expectation" Israel will accept a ceasefire proposal that would begin with a six-week cessation of hostilities in Gaza if Hamas takes the deal, a senior White House official has said. The three-part plan unveiled by President Joe Biden last week would also

Claudia Sheinbaum is set to become Mexico's first woman president in an historic win, exit polls suggest. The 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City is projected to win 56% of the vote in Sunday's election, convincingly beating her main rival, businesswoman Xóchitl