Former US President Donald Trump has been charged with attempting to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state of Georgia. He and 18 others have been indicted on counts that include racketeering in a 41-charge document issued by a Fulton County grand jury. The indictment marks

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected key munitions factories, including a tactical missile production plant, and ordered a “drastic” boost in the manufacturing of missiles, rocket-launcher shells and other weapons, according to state media. The inspections,

A holy shrine in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz has come under a second deadly attack in less than a year with another gunman breaking into its grounds and opening fire. Yadollah Bouali, the provincial commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), told state media

Palestinian officials welcomed their first Saudi Arabian ambassador, even as the kingdom mulls over establishing formal diplomatic relations with Israel. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s diplomatic adviser Majdi al-Khalidi received a copy of the credentials of Ambassador

As ECOWAS leaders fail to meet, concerns over the deteriorating health of deposed President Bazoum mount. An emergency meeting between Wester African nations on the coup in Niger has been postponed indefinitely as concerns over the health of detained President Mohammed Bazoum increase.

Six people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank in the Channel, off the French coast. The French coast guard said the vessel got into difficulty in the sea near Calais in the early hours of Saturday. Fifty-nine people - many of them Afghans - were rescued by French and

Additional expert support has been deployed to Hawaii, where forensic work is continuing to find victims of the devastating wildfires. At least 89 people are known to have died but there are fears this number will rise further, with hundreds still unaccounted for. Many more remain

The Eiffel Tower was evacuated for several hours Saturday over a bomb threat, according to CNN affiliate France BFMTV. The three floors of the tower, as well as the courtyard, were evacuated while authorities assessed the threat, BFMTV reported. A large security perimeter was

Balochistan Awami Party Senator Anwaarul Haq Kakar has been chosen as the interim prime minister of Pakistan, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said on Saturday. The much-anticipated announcement comes after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and outgoing Opposition Leader in the

Marrying a woman by concealing identity or having intercourse under false promise of marriage, promotion and employment will attract up to 10-year imprisonment with a bill introduced on Friday proposing a specific provision to deal with these offences for the first time. Union Home

A federal judge has warned former US President Donald Trump against making "inflammatory" statements which could taint the jury pool ahead of his trial for conspiring to overturn the result of the 2020 election. But Judge Tanya Chuktan ruled that Mr Trump can publicly share

Fresh evacuations are under way on the Hawaiian island of Maui as flames creep closer to the town of Kaanapali. The order was implemented just hours after residents of nearby Lahaina were permitted to briefly return to take stock of the damage to the fire-ravaged historic town. So

The death count from floods in northern China's Hebei province has risen to 29, state media reported Friday, after record-breaking rains pummelled the region in recent weeks. "As of August 10, 29 people have died due to disasters in Hebei Province, of which six were previously

The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has defeated a no-confidence motion in parliament on after a fiery speech by the premier at the climax of a three-day debate. Opposition lawmakers — who had brought the motion over months of ethnic violence in Manipur state

A terrifying wildfire that scorched a historic Hawaiian town and left it in charred ruins has killed at least 53 people, authorities said Thursday, making it one of the deadliest disasters in the US state's history. Brushfires on the west coast of Hawaii's Maui island -- fueled

Russia has launched its first mission to the moon in nearly 50 years, pitting it in a space race with India, which is also aiming to land a lunar craft this month. The launch of the Luna-25 craft to the moon on Friday was Russia’s first since 1976 when it was part of the Soviet

At least 17 people drowned when a boat carrying Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar's Rakhine state broke up at sea this week, rescuers said Thursday. Thousands of Rohingya risk their lives each year making perilous sea journeys from camps in Bangladesh and Myanmar to try to reach

Pakistan’s National Assembly was dissolved on Thursday when President Arif Alvi signed a request from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, sending the South Asian country into election mode. “The president dissolved the National Assembly on the advice of the prime minister under

The six-year-old student who shot his teacher in the US earlier this year, boasted about the incident saying "I shot [her] dead", unsealed court documents show. While being restrained after the shooting at a Virginia school, the boy is said to have admitted "I did

A man who posted violent threats against President Joe Biden and other officials online was shot dead during an FBI raid on Wednesday. Agents were attempting to serve an arrest warrant on Craig Robertson at his home in Utah, just hours ahead of a planned visit to the state by Mr Biden.