A powerful earthquake has killed at least 1000 people and left hundreds more injured in Afghanistan, Taliban officials say. Pictures shared on social media showed people on stretchers, rubble and ruined homes in the eastern Paktika province. Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada said

US Senate negotiators on gun legislation have released a bill that would address mass shootings by encouraging state red flag laws, enhancing mental health services, and adding juvenile records to background checks on gun buyers. "This bipartisan gun-safety legislation is progress

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has been discharged from hospital, where she was admitted with post-Covid related issues. Her discharge was announced by party spokesperson Jairam Ramesh on Twitter Monday evening. She was admitted to Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and received

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has arrived in Egypt on an official visit, Al-Ekhbariya reported on Monday. Prince Mohammed was welcomed on arrival in Cairo by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Based on the directives of King Salman, the crown prince will visit Jordan and

Israeli lawmakers will vote next week to dissolve parliament, opening the way for the country's fifth election in three years, after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett could not contain the rising pressure on his fragile ruling coalition. Bennett will step aside to be replaced by

Canada laid out its final regulations on Monday spelling out how it intends to apply a ban on plastic bags, straws, takeout containers and other single-use plastics. “Only 8% of the plastic we throw away gets recycled,” said federal health minister Jean-Yves Duclos in

The Russian editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta has auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize medal for $103.5 million (£84 million). Dmitry Muratov said all the money from sale will go to help refugees from the war in Ukraine. Muratov was co-awarded the peace

A fisher in Cambodia has caught what scientists say is the world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray. Captured on June 13, the stingray measured almost four metres (13 feet) from snout to tail and weighed slightly less than 300kg (660lbs), according to a

Macron to meet rival parties after losing majority French President Emmanuel Macron will meet political opponents on Tuesday after he and his allies lost its majority in the National Assembly. Mr Macron is now under pressure to secure support from rivals to fulfil his government's

Sara Duterte, the daughter of the outgoing populist president of the Philippines, took her oath Sunday as vice president following a landslide electoral victory, she clinched despite her father's human rights record that saw thousands of drug suspects gunned down. The inauguration

Left-wing ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro has achieved a narrow victory in Colombia's presidential election. Polls opened for the second round of the Latin American nation's presidential election on Sunday, with former guerrilla leader Petro facing surprise rival Rodolfo Hernandez,

French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance has fallen short of an absolute majority in the second round of France's parliamentary election, according to preliminary official results. Provisional results showed that Macron's Ensemble (Together) alliance won 245 of

The Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested 415 people and registered 20 FIRs so far in connection with the violent protests that erupted in the state over now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma's remarks on Prophet Mohammad. Violence broke out in Kanpur on June 3 and in nine other

Sri Lanka's military opened fire to contain rioting at a fuel station, officials said Sunday (Jun 19) as unprecedented queues for petrol and diesel were seen across the bankrupt country. Troops fired in Visuvamadu, 365km north of Colombo, on Saturday night as their guard point was

The West must prepare to continue supporting Ukraine in a war lasting for years, Nato's chief has warned. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the costs of war were high, but the price of letting Moscow achieve its military goals was even greater. His comments came as UK

US President Joe Biden took a tumble as he was riding his bicycle Saturday morning, but was unhurt. A video from a White House pool report showed the 79-year-old president immediately getting up after his fall. He then says: "I'm good." He was biking with First Lady

Israel has launched air raids on the Gaza Strip after rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave targeted the city of Ashkelon in southern Israel, following months of relative calm in the region. Palestinian media said the Israeli strikes fell on agricultural land in Gaza on Saturday,

The flood situation in Assam has turned critical with nine more people losing their lives, taking the death toll in this year’s floods and landslides in the state to 54, while over 18 lakh people remained affected, according to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA).

The United Nations says more than 10,000 civilians, including hundreds of children, have now been killed or injured in the war in Ukraine. Some 4,509 people had been killed and 5,585 injured as of midnight in Kyiv (21:00 GMT) on June 16, the United Nations Office of the High

There are fears for the safety of dozens of worshippers in the Afghan capital of Kabul after a Sikh temple was hit in an explosion. The blast occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning and it is unclear if there are casualties. One local official at the scene, Gornam Singh,