Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a new cabinet despite calls for him to resign over a disastrous economic crisis. The 17 new ministers named did not include several relatives who had previously held portfolios, although a number of stalwarts kept their seats. He

The death toll from Pakistan’s military air raids on targets in the eastern Afghanistan provinces of Khost and Kunar on Saturday has risen to at least 47, officials said. “Forty-one civilians, mainly women and children, were killed and 22 others were wounded in air strikes

Summary:  Russian shelling and air strikes hit multiple targets across Ukraine, officials say Four missiles have struck the Lviv region, the governor Makysm Kozytskyi says Five people are reportedly killed and 13 injured in shelling of the city of Kharkiv In Mykolaiv,

Israeli police have entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound as worshippers gathered for early morning prayers, two days after detaining hundreds at the site in another raid at the mosque. Israeli authorities said they entered the compound on Sunday to facilitate routine visits by Jews to

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to make a long-delayed trip to India this week in a bid to strengthen security ties with the country. He will meet his counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday, with talks focused on defence and trade. It will be Mr Johnson's first

Russia’s defence ministry has told the Ukrainian forces still fighting in the besieged southern port of Mariupol to lay down their arms starting 6am Moscow time (1pm AEST) on Sunday to save their lives. Russia’s earlier claim that its troops had cleared the urban area of

Russia has banned Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior ministers from entering Russia over the UK's "hostile" stance on the war in Ukraine. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and 10 other senior politicians - mostly members of the Cabinet

Russia has sent a series of warnings to the Biden administration, including a formal diplomatic protest this week, demanding that it halt shipment of advanced weapons to Ukraine that could strike into Russian territory or risk unspecified "unpredictable consequences." The

Israeli forces raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem with medics reporting at least 158 Palestinians injured in the ensuing violence as hundreds were detained. The Islamic endowment that runs the site said Israeli police entered in force before dawn on Friday,

Moscow said on Friday that 18 members of the European Union mission in Russia had been told to leave the country and blamed Brussels for destroying ties. The EU on April 5 said the 19 Russian diplomats had been "engaging in activities contrary to their diplomatic status" and

Israeli soldiers have killed five Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank – one of them a 14-year-old boy – amid continued raids by the Israeli armed forces following a series of deadly attacks inside Israel. Two Palestinians were killed after an Israeli raid early

Death toll from Philippines landslides, floods hits 115The death toll from landslides and flooding in the Philippines triggered by tropical storm Megi hit 115 on Thursday (April 14), official figures showed, as more bodies were found in mud-caked villages. Scores of people are still

Russia's Black Sea flagship leading the naval assault on Ukraine has been "seriously damaged" by an explosion, state media reported on Thursday, as Moscow threatened to strike Kyiv's command centres. With the war entering its seventh week, US President Joe Biden

Russia claims 1,026 Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered in the besieged port city of Mariupol But a top adviser to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky insists the city is still standing and the marines have joined another battalion. The mayor of Mariupol says some 21,000 civilians

Crisis-stricken Sri Lanka defaulted on its $51 billion external debt on Tuesday, calling the move a "last resort" after running out of foreign exchange to import desperately needed goods. The island nation is grappling with its worst economic downturn since independence, with

At least 25 people have died so far in landslides and floods in the Philippines after Tropical Storm Megi swept the nation. On Tuesday, rescue crews were still battling to retrieve people stranded on the eastern and southern coasts. Megi - known locally as Agaton - hit the

Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif is the President of the PML-N, the largest political party in Pakistan at the moment, after removing Imran Khan’s PTI from power on Saturday. He is also the longest-serving chief minister of the Punjab province, having served on the post three times

Nearly two-thirds of all Ukrainian children have fled their homes in the six weeks since Russia’s invasion, and the United Nations has verified the deaths of 142 youngsters, though the number is almost certainly much higher, the U.N. children’s agency said Monday. Manuel

PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif was elected as the 23rd prime minister of Pakistan after 174 lawmakers voted in his favour as Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MNAs boycotted the election. Earlier, PTI MNAs had walked out of the halls, with Shah Mahmood Qureshi — who was the party's

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Monday decided to resign from the National Assembly, minutes before the election for the new prime minister is scheduled to place. The decision was taken in a party's parliamentary meeting, which was chaired by PTI Chairman Imran Khan, at the