Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies within two months, according to Iranian and Saudi state media. The agreement was reached on Friday during talks in Beijing. Iranian state media posted images and video of Ali Shamkhani,

The man nominated as China's next premier by President Xi Jinping has been formally elected by parliament. Li Qiang, the former Communist Party leader of the country's biggest city of Shanghai, will now lead the government, replacing retiring Li Keqiang. The 63-year-old

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is seeking to extend his two decades in power, on Friday formally set the country’s parliamentary and presidential elections for May 14 — a month earlier than scheduled despite last month’s devastating earthquake. The

North Korea on Thursday fired a short-range ballistic missile toward waters off its western coast, South Korea’s military said. The launch came as the United States and South Korea prepare to hold their biggest combined military training exercises in years next week to counter

Addressing an investment forum this week, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said his administration would not tolerate corruption regardless of an official’s rank or political connections and pledged to tackle misconduct “without fear or favour”. Less than 48

Seven people were reported dead and at least eight injured in Hamburg after a shooting in a Jehovah’s Witness church just after 9pm on Thursday evening. Hamburg police found 17 uninjured people in the building and warned that one or more perpetrators might still be at large. As

Xi Jinping was handed a third term as Chinese president on Friday, capping a rise that has seen him become the country’s most powerful leader in generations. The appointment by China’s rubber-stamp parliament comes after Xi locked in another five years as head of the

Ram Chandra Paudel, a senior leader of the Nepali Congress, has been elected the third President of the country. Federal and provincial lawmakers voted Paudel as the country’s new President on Thursday. Out of 52,628 votes by weightage, Paudel secured 33,802 votes while Subas

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians near a village close to the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, without giving details. According to residents quoted by Palestinian radio, Israeli forces also raided the village of Jaba, south of

Australia is expected to announce it will buy as many as five US Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines in the 2030s as part of a landmark Pacific security pact with the United States and the United Kingdom, according to four US officials. Under the so-called AUKUS agreement, at

Russia has launched missiles at targets across Ukraine, from Kharkiv in the north to Odesa in the south and Zhytomyr in the west. Buildings and infrastructure were hit in Kharkiv and Odesa, with power blackouts in several areas. Attacks on the capital Kyiv are also reported. The

Israeli forces have killed at least six Palestinians and wounded 11 others during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry. Two of the wounded people had serious injuries, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

US President Joe Biden has proposed new taxes on the rich to help fund Medicare, saying the plan would help to extend the insurance programme’s solvency by 25 years and provide a degree of middle-class stability to millions of older adults. In his plan, Biden is overtly declaring

A local official said on Tuesday that 21 people, mostly women and children, were killed after a boat carrying 27 passengers capsized in the Red Sea off the coast of northwest Yemen. The accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon off the Alluheyah district in the northern part of Hodeidah

Ukraine vowed on Tuesday to take revenge against Russia, holding the Kremlin responsible for a captured soldier being riddled with bullets in a viral video after speaking a pro-Ukrainian slogan. The footage apparently shows a detained Ukrainian combatant standing in a shallow trench,

Qatar’s ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has appointed Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani as the country’s new prime minister following the resignation of Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdelaziz Al Thani. Sheikh Mohammed served as Qatar’s foreign minister

A Canadian brother and sister born at 22 weeks have been named by Guinness as the world's most premature twins. Adiah and Adrial Nadarajah were born at 126 days, overtaking the previous record of 125 days early set in 2018 by twins in the US state of Iowa. If the children had

Japan's second attempt to launch its next-generation H3 rocket failed after lift-off on Tuesday (Mar 7), with the space agency issuing a destruct command after concluding that the mission could not succeed. The failure is a blow for Japan's space agency JAXA, which has billed

Worn down by growing debt and a barrage of crises, leaders of the world's poorest countries have stepped up calls for the rules governing handouts of billions of dollars to be rewritten. Western nations gave out more than $185 billion in grants and cheap loans in 2021, according to

At least nine personnel of the Balochistan Constabulary (BC) were martyred and 13 were wounded in a bomb attack in Bolan on Monday, police said. Kachhi Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Mahmood Notezai confirmed the casualties to Dawn.com. “The constabulary van was on its