Macron to meet rival parties after losing majority French President Emmanuel Macron will meet political opponents on Tuesday after he and his allies lost its majority in the National Assembly. Mr Macron is now under pressure to secure support from rivals to fulfil his government's

Sara Duterte, the daughter of the outgoing populist president of the Philippines, took her oath Sunday as vice president following a landslide electoral victory, she clinched despite her father's human rights record that saw thousands of drug suspects gunned down. The inauguration

Left-wing ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro has achieved a narrow victory in Colombia's presidential election. Polls opened for the second round of the Latin American nation's presidential election on Sunday, with former guerrilla leader Petro facing surprise rival Rodolfo Hernandez,

French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance has fallen short of an absolute majority in the second round of France's parliamentary election, according to preliminary official results. Provisional results showed that Macron's Ensemble (Together) alliance won 245 of

The Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested 415 people and registered 20 FIRs so far in connection with the violent protests that erupted in the state over now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma's remarks on Prophet Mohammad. Violence broke out in Kanpur on June 3 and in nine other

Sri Lanka's military opened fire to contain rioting at a fuel station, officials said Sunday (Jun 19) as unprecedented queues for petrol and diesel were seen across the bankrupt country. Troops fired in Visuvamadu, 365km north of Colombo, on Saturday night as their guard point was

The West must prepare to continue supporting Ukraine in a war lasting for years, Nato's chief has warned. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the costs of war were high, but the price of letting Moscow achieve its military goals was even greater. His comments came as UK

US President Joe Biden took a tumble as he was riding his bicycle Saturday morning, but was unhurt. A video from a White House pool report showed the 79-year-old president immediately getting up after his fall. He then says: "I'm good." He was biking with First Lady

Israel has launched air raids on the Gaza Strip after rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave targeted the city of Ashkelon in southern Israel, following months of relative calm in the region. Palestinian media said the Israeli strikes fell on agricultural land in Gaza on Saturday,

The flood situation in Assam has turned critical with nine more people losing their lives, taking the death toll in this year’s floods and landslides in the state to 54, while over 18 lakh people remained affected, according to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA).

The United Nations says more than 10,000 civilians, including hundreds of children, have now been killed or injured in the war in Ukraine. Some 4,509 people had been killed and 5,585 injured as of midnight in Kyiv (21:00 GMT) on June 16, the United Nations Office of the High

There are fears for the safety of dozens of worshippers in the Afghan capital of Kabul after a Sikh temple was hit in an explosion. The blast occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning and it is unclear if there are casualties. One local official at the scene, Gornam Singh,

One person has died and over 15 have been injured in Telangana's Secunderabad as violent protests against the new military recruitment policy, Agnipath, spread to the southern state after entering the third consecutive day in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana. Protests have also been

Sonia Gandhi, who was hospitalised a couple of days ago after testing positive for coronavirus, has got a fungal infection and her health is being constantly monitored, the Congress said on Friday. The health update comes days after she was admitted at Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.

An assailant opened fire at a church in Alabama on Thursday evening, killing two people and wounding one other, the authorities said. A suspect was in custody after the shooting, at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills, a city of around 34,000 people about six miles

Russia-Saudi relations “as warm as the weather in Riyadh”, the Kingdom's energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman told media on Thursday after attending a meeting in Russia with the country's deputy prime minister. The meeting between Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman

French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi arrived in Kyiv on Thursday for their first visit to Ukraine since the Russian invasion. The leaders arrived on a special train from Poland, with AFP images showing them descending

Russia's war in Ukraine has pushed global displacement numbers above 100 million for the first time, and the UN warns the resulting hunger crisis could force many more to flee their homes. Efforts to address the global food insecurity crisis, which has been dramatically aggravated

US President Joe Biden announced a new package of arms and ammunition for Ukraine Tuesday after reaffirming Washington's support for Kyiv against Russia's invasion in a call with President Volodymyr Zelensky. The package of $1 billion worth of arms includes more artillery,

North Korea has essentially completed restoration work at its Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Facility and appears to be expanding construction activity into a second tunnel, according to a new analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The Washington DC-based