North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's powerful sister has warned that a recent US-South Korean deal will lead to a "more serious danger". Kim Yo-jong said North Korea's nuclear deterrent "should be brought to further perfection", state media reported. The US

Saudi Arabia and Iran will reopen embassies in each other’s capitals “within days”, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said in a sign of warming relations after the two countries closed their missions seven years ago. Speaking at a news conference

At least 25 civilians have been killed in a wave of Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities, as Kyiv said it was nearly ready to launch a huge assault to retake occupied land. The attacks on the cities of Dnipro and Uman in the early hours of Friday were the first large-scale air

Renewed fighting convulsed Sudan and its battered capital on Friday, and Turkey reported that one of its evacuation planes had been shot at, despite world leaders’ trumpeting the renewal of an already flagging cease-fire. In Sudan’s western Darfur region, ethnic fighting in

BBC chairman Richard Sharp has resigned over a report into whether he failed to properly disclose his involvement in the facilitation of a loan to Boris Johnson. The report found he breached the governance code for public appointments by not disclosing his involvement. Mr Sharp said

Two US Army attack helicopters crashed while on a training flight in Alaska on Thursday, the military said, the second such incident in less than a month. The AH-64 Apache helicopters “crashed today near Healy, Alaska, returning from a training flight. First responders are on the

A report released Thursday shows that the devastating series of droughts that has struck the Horn of Africa since late 2020 would not have occurred without global warming. "Human-caused climate change has made agricultural drought in the Horn of Africa about 100 times more

Brussels welcomed Wednesday's conversation between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, thought to be their first call since Russia invaded Ukraine. "It is an important, long overdue first step by China in exercising its responsibilities as

The number of victims linked to a suspected starvation cult in Kenya has climbed to 98 as weeping relatives anxiously awaited news of loved ones after investigators unearthed mass graves last week. The discovery of dozens of bodies buried in Shakahola forest near the coastal town of

A senior Shia cleric in Iran was shot and killed Wednesday in an attack in a northern province along the Caspian Sea, authorities said. An attacker shot to death Abbas Ali Soleimani in Babolsar in Iran’s Mazandaran province, state television reported. Police later arrested the

China is pushing ahead with the largest-ever expansion of its nuclear arsenal, modernizing the atomic deterrent with an eye on any future conflicts with the United States, experts say. The SIPRI think tank estimates that China has a stockpile of around 350 nuclear warheads —

Reporters across Europe are working under increasingly challenging conditions and attempts to silence them have grown, the Committee to Protect Journalists has warned. In an extensive study released on Wednesday, the US-headquartered organisation said that while the European Union has

Australia will host the Quad Leaders’ Summit for the first time in Sydney on May 24, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saying on Wednesday the grouping is committed to an open and stable Indo-Pacific that is respectful of sovereignty and ensures security for all, Hindustan Times

The Islamic State leader behind the 2021 Kabul airport suicide bombing that killed about 180 people including 13 US service members has been killed by the Taliban, according to US officials. The IS leader, whose identity has not yet been released, was killed in southern Afghanistan in

Four people, including two Colombians, were killed when the vehicle they were driving in Mexico to the US border was fired on by a suspected criminal group, officials said. The attack occurred on Sunday in the municipality of Villa de Cos in the violence-plagued north-central state of

Singapore has hanged 46-year-old Tangaraju Suppiah who was found guilty in 2018 of trafficking more than 1kg (2.2 pounds) of cannabis, despite last-minute appeals for clemency from his family and activists. His family said they had been given Tangaraju’s death certificate,

Nepal has issued a record 454 permits to climb Mount Everest this spring, officials say, four years after at least four deaths on the world’s highest peak were blamed on overcrowding. “This is the highest number of permits the department has issued to summit Mount

India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country in the coming week, hitting almost 1.43 billion people, the United Nations said on Monday. “By the end of this month, India’s population is expected to reach 1,425,775,850 people, matching and then

Turkish police detained 110 people over alleged militant ties, security sources said on Tuesday, with a pro-Kurdish lawmaker saying politicians, lawyers and journalists were among those arrested in raids that he linked to elections on May 14. The security sources said the operation was

At least 12 people, mostly policemen, were killed by multiple explosions caused by a fire in a munitions cache in a Pakistan police station on Monday, officials said. The explosions levelled the specialist counter-terrorism station in Kabal town of Swat Valley, in the northwestern