The war in Ukraine helped push the global total of people left internally displaced by conflict or natural disasters to a record high of 71.1 million last year, according to a report released Thursday by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. By

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the heads of Germany’s 16 states on Wednesday agreed on new measures to tackle soaring migration after crunch talks. In the first four months of 2023, some 101,981 asylum applications were filed in Germany, an increase of 78% from the same period in

The National Account­ability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday told an accountability court that it found no evidence of corruption or money laundering against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, his family members and others. A prosecutor submitted a supplementary reference in the court,

Pakistan's political turmoil intensified late Wednesday (May 10) with violent nationwide protests swelling and the government deploying the military, following the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan who was ordered to be held for another eight days on new corruption charges.

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake rattled the Pacific island nation of Tonga in the early hours of Thursday but there were no reports of injuries or damage. The quake struck at 1602 GMT about 100 kilometres (60 miles) off Tonga's remote volcanic island of Niuatoputapu at a depth of 210

King Salman has invited Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad to attend an upcoming Arab League meeting that will take place on May. 19 in the Kingdom, Saudi Press Agency reported on Wednesday. The invitation to the meeting was handed over by the Kingdom’s ambassador to Jordan,

Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, a day after Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with missiles that killed 15 people in separate attacks over several hours. The health ministry identified the slain men as Ahmad Jamal

Pakistan remains on edge ahead of former prime minister Imran Khan's hearing on corruption charges, a day after his dramatic arrest. Local media have reported at least two deaths amid demonstrations by his supporters in Pakistan. Amid the chaos, police said Mr Khan's hearing

A jury in a civil case has found former President Donald Trump sexually abused a magazine columnist in a New York department store in the 1990s. But Mr Trump was found not liable for raping E Jean Carroll in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman. The jury also found Mr Trump liable

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested Tuesday, police said, during a court appearance for one of dozens of cases pending since he was booted from office last year. “Imran Khan has been arrested in the Qadir Trust case,” the Islamabad police official Twitter

The Canadian government has expelled a Toronto-based Chinese diplomat who was allegedly involved in a scheme to intimidate a member of parliament. China is accused of seeking to target lawmaker Michael Chong and his relatives in Hong Kong after he accused China of human rights abuses.

Fifteen persons were killed and 20 to 25 other people injured when a bus fell from a bridge in Madhya Pradesh's Khargone district on Tuesday morning, state Home Minister Narottam Mishra said. The incident took place at 8.40 am. The bus fell from the bridge on a dry bed of the Borad

At least 60 people, including women, have been killed and 231 people injured while 1,700 houses have been burned down in the ethnic violence in Manipur since May 3, Chief Minister N. Biren Singh said on Monday. He announced that a high-level inquiry would be conducted to fix

The death toll from floods that devastated two villages in east Democratic Republic of Congo last week has more than doubled to 401, the provincial governor said on Monday, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country’s recent history. More bodies were being

Israel killed three senior Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza air strikes and at least six civilians, including children, Palestinian officials said, as the Israeli military said it had launched strikes against the militant group on Tuesday. The air strikes were the latest incident in

Vietnam has recorded its highest ever temperature, just over 44C (111F) - with experts predicting it would soon be surpassed because of climate change. The record was set in the northern province of Thanh Hoa, where officials warned people to stay indoors during the hottest times of

Eight people have been killed in the US state of Texas after a car struck a group at a bus stop close to a shelter for the homeless and migrants. The incident happened in the city of Brownsville near the Mexican border at about 08:30 local time (14:30 GMT). At least five other

At least 27 people have died in a gold mine fire in Peru, in the worst mining accident in the country in decades. The mine company, Yanaquihua, said 175 miners were rescued. It is a small mine in the Arequipa region, in the south. An electrical short-circuit is thought to have

Russia has launched dozens of missiles and drones towards Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, injuring at least five people, amid growing concern about safety at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s biggest. Ukraine’s top military command said it destroyed all 35

At least 22 people have died after a double-decker boat capsized off the coastal town of Tanur in the Malappuram district of India’s southern state of Kerala, local authorities said. The boat, which was carrying about 40 inbound passengers, overturned at about 7pm local time