Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made his first trip Sunday to the war-torn east since Moscow's invasion started, as Russian forces tightened their grip around key cities in the Donbas region. After visiting Kharkiv, Zelensky announced that he had fired the northeastern

Rescuers in Nepal have so far recovered 14 bodies from the crash site of a small plane carrying 22 people, an airport official said on Monday. The wreckage of the plane, operated by Nepali carrier Tara Air, was recovered in Mustang district in northern Nepal. The passenger plane was

At least 35 people have died amid heavy rainfall in north-eastern Brazil on Friday and Saturday, as downpours lashed two major cities on the Atlantic coast, in what is the South American nation’s fourth major flooding event in five months. In the state of Pernambuco, at least 33

A small passenger plane operated by a private airline in Nepal went missing on Sunday with 22 people on board, including four Indians, media reports said quoting airline officials. According to the developing reports, the Tara Air 9 NAET twin-engine aircraft was flying from the tourist

At least 27 civilians have been killed by members of a notorious rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the army and Red Cross said. The Kivu Security Tracker (KST), which monitors violence in the region via a team of experts on the ground, posted on Twitter to say

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday told the leaders of France and Germany Moscow is ready to look for ways to ship grain stuck in Ukrainian ports but demanded the West lift sanctions. The Kremlin chief also warned French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf

At least 31 people have been killed and seven others injured during a stampede at a church event in southern Nigeria’s Port Harcourt city, according to police. Hundreds of people who had turned up to receive food at the church early on Saturday broke through a gate, causing the

Twenty-six people are missing after a ferry ran out of fuel and sank in bad weather off the coast of Indonesia, officials have said. The country’s search and rescue agency said the vessel was carrying 43 people when it capsized on Thursday in the Makassar Strait, the sea

A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced to death eight soldiers and three civilians for selling arms to a violent rebel group. At a public hearing on Friday, court president Colonel Kelly Dianga sentenced the eight soldiers, including three

After being closed to tourists for two years, Japan is opening its borders to visitors from 98 countries and regions. It marks the most significant moment so far in the country's slow relaxation of its Covid-19 entry restrictions. But some restrictions will remain, including a

Police in Texas didn't try to break down the classroom door where 19 children and two teachers were killed on Tuesday because they believed the gunman was barricaded alone and that no one was at risk. It was the "wrong decision" not to break into the room, Steven McCraw,

The US should prioritise funding for school security over aid to Ukraine, former President Donald Trump has said days after 19 Texas pupils were killed. If the US can send billions to Ukraine, "we should be able to do whatever it takes to keep our children safe at home", he

The troops came across the corpses on Thursday by the Ituri river, in the Irumu territory of Ituri province, according to local Red Cross representative David Beiza. Beiza added that some of the bodies had been decapitated, with some heads placed in boxes. He underlined that the Red

Seven soldiers were killed when a vehicle carrying them skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge near Shyok river in Ladakh on Friday, officials said. "A party of 26 soldiers was moving from the Transit Camp in Partapur to a forward location in Sub Sector Hanif. At

Islamabad police on Thursday filed separate cases against 150 people including PTI Chairman Imran Khan, Asad Umar, Asad Qaiser and other leaders of his party over allegations of arson and vandalism in the federal capital a day earlier. The footage of the Safe City cameras as well those

Moscow is ready to make a "significant contribution" to averting a looming food crisis if the West lifts sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said in a telephone call with Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi. "Vladimir Putin emphasises

Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a US-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution to strengthen sanctions on North Korea in a vote the US ambassador to the UN called dangerous, disappointing and likely to fuel Pyongyang's program to develop nuclear-capable missile systems.

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook a remote region of southern Peru on Thursday, sending frightened people running into the streets in nearby Bolivia, though there were no immediate reports of damage or injury. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 7:02 a.m. (1202 GMT) quake was centered

A government school principal in Rajasthan, who accused his wife of domestic violence, has been given security after he approached a local court with videos that are in wide circulation online. In the video, Ajit Yadav, the principal at the Kharkara government school in Haryana, is

Police were urged to charge into a deadly school shooting in Texas by onlookers, witnesses say, with one suggesting he considered doing so himself as he became frustrated. Texas officials say gunman Salvador Ramos was inside the school in Uvalde for up to an hour before he was killed.