North Korea has released images of its recent spate of missile launches, including an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), as it condemned recent military drills between South Korea and the United States as an “open provocation and dangerous war drill” against which it

World leaders meeting Monday for climate talks in Egypt are under pressure to deepen cuts in emissions and financially back developing countries already devastated by the effects of rising temperatures. The UN's COP27 climate summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh comes as

A homemade bomb went off in a bus and killed a passenger and wounded 10 others in a southern Philippine city on Sunday in an attack authorities suspect may be part of an extortion attempt, officials said. The bus with an unspecified number of passengers was approaching a transport

A Tanzanian passenger plane has crashed into Lake Victoria as it attempted to land in the lakeside town of Bukoba. The Precision Air flight was carrying 43 people, 26 of whom have been rescued and sent to hospital, said a local official. Rescue workers and local fishermen are on the

A suicide bomber has detonated his explosives near a military training camp in Somalia, killing at least five people and wounding 11 others, according to the state-run SONNA news agency. The attack on Saturday at the camp in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, was claimed by the al-Shabab

US President Joe Biden has told voters in Pennsylvania that next week’s midterm election will be a “defining moment” for the country’s democracy, as his predecessor and rival Donald Trump called for a “giant red” Republican wave to defeat the Democrats.

Campaigning has formally started for Malaysia’s general elections, a highly competitive race that will see the world’s longest-serving coalition seeking to regain its dominance four years after a shocking electoral loss. Campaigns began on Saturday for the November 19

The United States and its allies have clashed with China and Russia, accusing the pair of preventing action being taken by the United Nations Security Council against North Korea for its escalating ballistic missile launches. The 15 members of the Security Council failed on Friday to

More than 200 elephants and hundreds of zebras and gnus have died in Kenya's worst drought in four decades, the country's tourism minister said on Friday. The crisis has affected nearly half of Kenya's regions and at least four million out of its 50 million people.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the first visit by a leader of the Group of Seven (G7) nations to China in three years. Leading a high-level business delegation to China on Friday, the German leader’s focus on boosting economic ties

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday compared his struggle for ‘real freedom’ with that of Awami League chief Sheikh Mujibur Rehman and reminded that the country had split into two after a political party with a legitimate political mandate was denied

Protests have erupted across Pakistan after an "assassination attempt" on former prime minister Imran Khan, who was leading a march through the capital Islamabad. Anger poured on streets after a gunman opened fire at a protest rally in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, slightly

A Russian-installed official in southern Ukraine said Moscow will likely pull its troops from the west bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson and urged civilians to leave, possibly signalling a retreat that would be a setback to Russia’s war. There was silence from senior officials

The accused who fired shots at former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, confessed to his guilt. The accused reportedly said that he wanted to kill Imran Khan because he was misleading the public. In a video, the attacker said, "I wanted to kill Imran Khan. Only he had to be

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday sustained bullet injury when unidentified assailants opened fire on the container-mounted truck carrying him during his protest march in Pakistan's Punjab province, media reports said. The incident occurred near Allahwala

The UN Security Council late on Wednesday rejected a resolution drafted by Russia to investigate its allegations that the US is developing biological weapons in Ukraine. Russia and China were the only votes in favor of the investigation, while US, France and Britain, which all have

North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) designed to hit targets on the other side of the world, say South Korean officials. The ICBM launch is Pyongyang's seventh this year, and comes amid concerns that it will soon test a nuclear weapon. It comes a

North and South Korea have fired a number of missiles into waters near each other's coasts in a marked escalation of hostilities. The North launched its most missiles in a single day - at least 23 - including one that landed less than 60km (37 miles) off the South's city of

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to edge toward election victory on Wednesday, with nearly two-thirds of ballots showing that he and his ultranationalist and religious allies are poised to achieve a stable majority in the country’s parliament. Votes were

An overwhelming majority of killings of journalists across the world go unpunished, a United Nations agency reported on Wednesday. "Impunity for killings of journalists remains unacceptably high at 86 percent," said UNESCO, the United Nations cultural organisation whose brief