A UN Security Council committee on Monday agreed to allow the Taliban administration's foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to travel to Pakistan from Afghanistan next week to meet with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China, diplomats said. Muttaqi has long been subjected to a

6,000 people flee Sudan for the Central African RepublicAround 6,000 people, most of them women, have fled the fighting in Sudan to neighbouring Central African Republic over the last two weeks, said the UN refugee agency Sunday. "The number is made up of 70 percent women, 15

Turkish forces have killed the suspected leader of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced. Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi is said to have taken over the group after his predecessor was killed last autumn. Mr Erdogan told broadcaster

Three missiles get through and cause no casualties, Kyiv says, but one person is reported killed in separate attacks in Kherson. The US Patriot missile air defence system. Ukraine says its air defences have destroyed 15 of 18 missiles launched by Russian forces as Moscow has

At least 11 people have died following a gas leak in northern India. Women and children are among those who died in the port city of Ludhiana in Punjab state. Several people were found unconscious in their homes. The area was sealed off and residents were evacuated after many

Police in Texas say they believe a man killed five of his neighbours after an argument about him practice-shooting with a semi-automatic weapon nearby. The victims were all from Honduras, and included an eight-year-old child. The shooting happened on Friday night in the small town

Sudan’s death toll from the ongoing clashes between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has risen to 528, according to the Health Ministry on Saturday. A ministry statement said that 4,599 people have also been injured in the violence in the period between

Two civilians died as a result of Ukrainian shelling on a village in Russia’s Bryansk region on Saturday evening, a local governor said. “According to preliminary information, one residential building was completely destroyed, two more houses were partially

As the Indian Supreme Court continues to hear petitions seeking to legalise same-sex marriage, it's becoming evident just how complex the issue is. Earlier, lawyers for the petitioners had argued in court that marriage was a union of two people, not just a man and woman, that

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 —