US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said now is "probably the best, maybe the last opportunity" to secure a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza. Mr Blinken made his comments during a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday during his ninth trip to

Ukraine says it has destroyed a second strategic bridge in a week as it continues its incursion into Russia's Kursk region. The Ukrainian military on Sunday released aerial footage of the strike on the bridge - reported to be over the Seym River in Zvannoe. Hours later,

The Thai king on Sunday formally appointed Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the 37-year-old daughter of controversial billionaire ex-premier Thaksin, as Thailand's new prime minister. Paetongtarn, the kingdom's youngest ever PM, comes to office after a court sacked the previous premier

Opposition supporters have gathered across Venezuela to protest against Nicolas Maduro's disputed victory in last month's presidential election. Opposition leader María Corina Machado joined thousands of protesters in the capital, Caracas, and urged them not to be

At least eight people have been killed and several others wounded in twin explosions in the Somali capital Mogadishu, an official said. Mohamud Ahmed, a police officer in Mogadishu who spoke to Anadolu Agency over the phone, said that the attack on Saturday targeted a tea shop in the

An attack blamed on Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in central Mali has killed at least 15 soldiers, three local officials told AFP, in the latest violence to hit the troubled region. Mali has for more than a decade been ravaged by jihadists and other armed groups, with the center of the

A prison break in the Haitian city of Saint-Marc left 12 inmates dead on Friday, Mayor Myriam Fievre said, the third such incident in Haiti in recent months amid a protracted humanitarian crisis fueled by gang violence. State Prosecutor Venson Francois said the situation on Friday

At least 80 people were killed in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a village in Sinnar state in central Sudan, a volunteer group said. "The RSF launched a bloody attack yesterday (Thursday) on the Jalqni village of (Abu Hujar locality) in Sinnar state,

A suicide bomber has killed 16 Yemeni pro-government soldiers and wounded 18 others in a military post in the southern province of Abyan, local authorities have said. The attacker “drove a booby-trapped car into a site for the security forces” in the Mudiyah district on

US President Joe Biden has warned all sides involved in the negotiations for a possible Gaza ceasefire deal not to undermine efforts. Biden declared that “we are closer than we’ve ever been” to a ceasefire following the latest round of negotiations, but a senior Hamas

Amid nationwide uproar over the gruesome rape-murder of a trainee doctor at a Kolkata Hospital, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has called for a nationwide strike and withdrawal of non-emergency medical services for 24 hours beginning Saturday. IMA, the largest organisation of

Pakistan’s foreign office on Friday rejected accusations made by members of Bangladesh’s former premier Sheikh Hasina’s party regarding Islamabad’s involvement in her ouster, saying there was “absolutely no truth to such allegations.” Hasina, 76,

Thailand's parliament has elected political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra as its youngest prime minister, only a day after she was thrust into the spotlight amid an unrelenting power struggle between the country's warring elites. The 37-year-old daughter of divisive political

Iraq’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that an announcement on an end date for the US-led coalition’s mission had been postponed due to the “latest developments”. It did not identify the developments. The US-Iraq Higher Military Commission, comprising

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit off Taiwan’s east coast Friday morning, the United States Geological Survey said. Initially reported by the island’s Central Weather Administration as a magnitude 6.3, the tremor struck at 7:35 am (2335 GMT) at a depth of 15 kilometers (about

More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the territory’s Health Ministry said Thursday. Israel’s offensive has also wounded 92,401 people and displaced over 85 percent of the population from their homes, the ministry in Hamas-run Gaza

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik has resigned from her position amid a free speech debate over campus protests of the war in Gaza. Ms Shafik's resignation comes only a year after she took the position at the private Ivy League university in New York City, and just a

Thousands of people, holding candles, poured onto the streets across West Bengal at the stroke of midnight on Wednesday seeking justice and speedy probe into the gruesome rape and murder of a woman doctor at a state-run hospital in Kolkata. Under the banner of “Reclaim the

Monthly inflation in Argentina came in at 4.0 percent in July, the lowest in 2.5 years even as the annual figure remained one of the highest in the world, the INDEC statistics agency said Wednesday. It was the third consecutive month with inflation under 5.0 percent, according to an

The Brazilian Amazon has recorded more than 37,000 forest fires so far this year, the worst number in nearly two decades, according to satellite data released Wednesday. The number was 111 percent higher than in the same period of 2023, said Brazil's National Institute for Space