External News

Security agencies have foiled a planned terror attack in Nairobi, seizing a cache of weapons and explosives in a high-stakes counter-terrorism operation that averted what could have been a catastrophic strike. National P...

The UN human rights agency on Friday called on governments to clamp down on scam centres, which have mushroomed in Southeast Asia and where hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked into forced labour.

An Indonesian crew member died after a fire broke out on a cruise ship en route to Singapore, the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) said on Friday (Feb 20).

India joined a U.S.-led initiative to strengthen technology cooperation among strategic allies in a move Friday that underscores the nations’ warming ties after a brief strain over New Delhi’s unabated purchase of discou...

Yemeni security forces have killed at least one person and wounded 11 as a crowd linked to the secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC) attempted to storm the gate of the al-Maashiq Presidential Palace in Aden, a...

Dozens of people allegedly involved in the recent anti-government protests in Iran have been sentenced to death in Iran, according to a rights group.

At least 33 people have been killed after Islamic militants launched simultaneous attacks on a district in northwest Nigeria, according to the police.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Even now, safely in her new home of Estonia, Inna Vnukova says she can’t purge the terrifying memory of living under Russian occupation in eastern Ukraine early in the war and her family’s harrowi...

KRAKOW, Poland, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Europe's ⁠five ⁠biggest defence powers are ⁠teaming up on a multi-million euro project to bring low-cost ​air-defence systems like autonomous drones or missiles into production within 1...

Vienna International Airport paused flights on Friday due to heavy snowfall. Snow and ice on the roads of Austria's capital city also led to multiple traffic accidents, the public broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk...

A general strike protesting Argentine President Javier Milei’s flagship overhaul of the country’s labor law disrupted public transport, hospitals, ports and schools across Argentina on Thursday and intensified a standoff...

Laura Fernández, Costa Rica’s president-elect and current Minister of the Presidency, met with congressional party leaders today to request their support in advancing seven priority bills. These measures, seen as essenti...

The navies of El Salvador and Mexico announced drug seizures in the Pacific Ocean this week of more than 10 tonnes of cocaine, in contrast to deadly strikes by the U.S. government that just this week left 11 people dead...

Alberta will hold a referendum this fall to ask residents if its government should limit the number of new international students, temporary foreign workers and asylum seekers arriving in the oil-rich Canadian province.

Talks between Russia, Ukraine and the US aimed at ending Moscow's war in Ukraine have concluded without a breakthrough.

The success of Operation Red Card 2.0 highlights Africa’s growing institutional capacity to combat digital financial crime as internet penetration, mobile banking, and digital payments expand rapidly across the continent...

TIRANA, Feb 19 (Reuters) - As protesters hurled petrol bombs at Albania's government building in central Tirana last week, and police responded with tear gas and water cannon, one chant rang out: "Rama go home! This corr...

Pakistan’s Foreign Office summoned the Afghan Deputy Ambassador on Monday to formally register a strong protest following the recent terrorist attack in Bajaur.

Dramatic footage emerged this week of a vast avalanche cascading down the steep slopes of the Italian Alps, engulfing a crowd of terrified skiers.

The Israeli army launched intense airstrikes and heavy artillery shelling in the Gaza Strip on Thursday on the second day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, despite the Oct. 10 ceasefire agreement, witnesses said.