At least 16 people have died in shipwrecks off Tunisia and Western Sahara as North Africa faces a spike in Europe-bound sea crossings. Tunisia in particular has become a major gateway for refugees, primarily from other parts of Africa, attempting perilous voyages in the hopes of a

A senior United States diplomat has visited Niger to push coup authorities to restore democratic rule after their overthrow of President Mohamed Bazoum last month. Victoria Nuland, the US’s acting deputy secretary of state, said on Monday that she held “frank and

At least five people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, officials say. Four civilians and an official were killed, and 31 people were injured, interior minister Ihor Klymenko said. President Volodymyr

Thousands of scouts at an international event in South Korea are being evacuated from a campsite due to an incoming tropical storm. Several countries including the UK had already left, blaming high temperatures and poor sanitary conditions at the camp. UK Scouts chief executive Matt

A roadside bomb has struck a vehicle carrying a local politician and his friends in southwestern Pakistan, killing him and six others. In another bombing, two people were killed in the country’s northwest. The attack that killed seven on Monday happened in Kech, a town in

Three-quarters of children in South Asia are already facing dangerously high temperatures, the highest level worldwide, as the impact of climate change grows. Unicef, the United Nations children’s agency, warned on Monday that about 460 million children are exposed to extreme

At least 24 people have died after a vehicle crashed in Morocco in one of the deadliest accidents in recent years in the country. A minibus heading to a weekly market in Demnate town in the central province of Azilal overturned while carrying passengers on a street on Sunday,

Four Syrian soldiers have been killed and another four wounded in an overnight Israeli missile attack, Syria's state media say. Sana news agency is quoting a military source as saying the strike near the capital Damascus also caused some material damage. Some of the Israeli

Israeli security forces say they have killed three alleged Palestinian militants in the north of the occupied West Bank, near the Jenin refugee camp. The camp was the focus of a major military operation last month. It marks a further escalation in a wave of violence over the

Niger’s coup leaders have closed the country’s airspace after rejecting an ultimatum from West African states to reinstate deposed President Mohamed Bazoum or risk military intervention. The move, announced late on Sunday, came as tens of thousands of coup supporters

At least 15 people have been killed after a train travelling from the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi to Abbottabad derailed in the city of Nawabshah in Sindh province, according to the country’s railways minister. “This is quite a big accident. Rescue teams have

 A shallow magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck eastern China in the early hours of Sunday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with state media reporting at least 21 people injured and dozens of buildings collapsed. Videos on social media showed shaking light fixtures, trembling

Prosecutors in Donald Trump's upcoming trial have asked for limits on what the ex-president can publicly say about the case, after he shared a threatening message online. In a filing late on Friday night, the prosecutors said they feared Mr Trump might disclose confidential

A gunman opened fire in central Tel Aviv and killed an Israeli police inspector before he was shot dead by a responding officer. Amateur video circulated online of police and civilians on Saturday running through the cafe-lined streets in the seaside metropolis. Police identified

A blood transfusion centre, a university and an aeronautics facility in Ukraine have been damaged in deadly air raids as Russian and Ukrainian forces escalated their attacks following a strike by Kyiv on a Russian tanker in the Black Sea. The attacks late on Saturday came as senior

Niger’s coup generals have asked for help from the Russian mercenary group Wagner as the deadline nears for it to release the country’s removed president or face possible military intervention by the West African regional bloc, a news report says. The request came during a

Saudi Arabia has kicked off a weekend summit in Jeddah, in which senior officials from some 40 countries – but not Russia – will aim to draft key principles on how to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday welcomed the wide

Police arrested Pakistani former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the eastern city of Lahore on Saturday, his lawyer said, after a court sentenced him to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts. Legal experts say a conviction in the case could end Khan’s chances of

In fresh escalation of violence in Manipur, three people from the Meitei community were killed in Kwakta in Bishnupur district in the early hours of Saturday. The incident has sparked off tensions once again in the area at the border of the Meitei-dominated Bishnupur district and the

A Russian tanker with 11 crew members has been hit in a Ukrainian attack in the Black Sea, Russian officials say. They said the vessel's engine room was damaged in the overnight strike in the Kerch Strait. No-one was hurt. Ukraine has not publicly commented. But a Ukrainian