Four people died and at least 20 were injured when a car bomb exploded near a market in Pakistan late on Sunday, a senior official has said.
The explosion hit the city of Qillah Abdullah in Balochistan province, close to the country's border with (...)
Australia's most-decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost an appeal against a landmark defamation judgement which found he committed war crimes.
A judge in 2023 ruled that news articles alleging the Victoria Cross recipient had murdered (...)
The World Health Organization has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an "immediate" vaccination campaign.
Samples of the highly infectious virus were found in two healthy children during a routine screening in Lae, a (...)
Three energy-rich Gulf Arab nations are racing to turn their influence over Donald Trump into tangible gains with the president set to visit next week.
They have built personal ties with the president and collectively pledged trillions in US (...)
The Trump administration will admit more than two dozen white South Africans as refugees next week, despite the ongoing suspension of most U.S. refugee resettlement programs, officials and documents confirmed Friday.
According to a document obtained (...)
Pakistan's army chief, General Asim Munir, is not known for seeking the spotlight.
Yet in recent weeks, it has found him — not only in Pakistan, but across the border in India and in diplomatic capitals far beyond.
His remarks on Kashmir — made just (...)
Pakistani security forces have killed 54 militants who attempted to cross into the country from Afghanistan, the military said on Sunday, marking one of the deadliest such killings in recent years.
In a statement, the military said intelligence (...)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed plans about a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen on a second Signal group chat, this one on his personal phone and including his wife, lawyer and brother, three people familiar with the (...)
Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a ban on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, a group that was designated as a terrorist organization more than two decades ago, the Associated Press reported.
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 (...)
A medical charity working in Greece says it has diagnosed six children living in a migrant facility on the eastern island of Samos as suffering from malnutrition, the first time its doctors have made such a diagnosis since the facility opened in (...)
The World Food Programme said that the Trump administration had axed funding for life-saving schemes in 14 impoverished countries — despite previously pledging to spare vital aid.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the Trump (...)
Denmark strongly criticized US Vice President JD Vance on Saturday following his controversial comments accusing Copenhagen of neglecting Greenland during a visit to the US Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars (...)
The Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, declared on Sunday that Afghanistan has no need for Western legal systems, asserting that Islamic sharia law is fully in effect and that democracy has ended in the country.
"There is no need for (...)
The United States has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban officials, including Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who also leads the Haqqani network, a group long blamed for deadly attacks against Afghanistan's former Western-backed (...)
UNICEF on Saturday renewed its call for the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan to immediately lift their ban on girls' education beyond sixth grade, warning of lasting consequences for the country's future.
The appeal comes as the new academic year (...)
An American airline mechanic has been freed by the Taliban after being held in Afghanistan for more than two years.
George Glezmann, who was detained in December 2022 while visiting as a tourist, arrived by plane in Qatar on Thursday evening before (...)
A US court has blocked the Trump administration from deporting a Georgetown University researcher who was detained by immigration authorities earlier this week.
Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national, is a postdoctoral fellow studying and teaching at (...)
More than 80 Afghan women studying in Oman on US-funded scholarships — terminated last month due to Trump administration's sweeping cuts to foreign aid — have received a temporary reprieve.
A US State Department spokesperson has told the BBC that (...)
A curfew has been imposed in parts of a city in India's western state of Maharashtra after Hindu groups demanded the removal of the tomb of Aurangzeb, a 17th-Century Mughal emperor, sparking violence on Monday night.
Vehicles were set on fire and (...)
Pakistan said Friday that the death toll from a train hijacking in the southwestern region climbed to 30 as it accused India and Afghanistan of supporting militants responsible for the attack.
Militants loyal to the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) (...)
Nearly 350 hostages have been rescued at the end of a deadly standoff between Pakistan's military and armed militants who hijacked a train in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, a security source told CNN Wednesday. The incident, (...)
France is a loyal and steadfast ally in NATO, French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized on Thursday, amid his US counterpart Donald Trump's repeated doubts about the military alliance.
The French leader invoked a list of historical events whereby (...)
The US vice president has sparked a row with his comments about a potential peacekeeping force in Ukraine.
UK opposition politicians accused JD Vance of disrespecting British forces after he said a US stake in Ukraine's economy was a "better (...)
Despite divisions between east and west, Europe's standards of functioning democracy remain high, even as global standards decline, according to a study released on Thursday by the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
The latest Democracy (...)
"I just wanted to own a house and pay off my debts — that's why I decided to sell my kidney," says Zeya, a farm worker in Myanmar.
Prices had soared after a military coup in 2021 triggered civil war. He could barely feed his young family and was (...)
