The United States has formally invited China’s new Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Washington as officials from the two countries continue to meet regularly amid intensifying competition. The US State Department confirmed the invite on Tuesday, saying Washington expects Wang to

Former US President Donald Trump has been criminally charged with plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat. He is accused of four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens. The indictment caps an

Myanmar’s junta amnesty has reportedly decided to pardon ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi more than two years after she was detained as part of a military coup, claimed state media on Tuesday. She will be pardoned for five of the numerous offences for which she was jailed for a total

Taliban leaders have met officials from the United States in Qatar for the first time since their return to power in Afghanistan two years ago. A spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday that the two sides discussed confidence-building measures during the

Military delays election it promised to hold in August 2023 citing ongoing violence across the country. A man flashes the three-finger salute as he passes burning tires during a protest against the military coup, in Mandalay, Myanmar April 1, 2021. Myanmar’s military has

A mother in the United States who used her apocalyptic religious beliefs to justify murdering two of her children and conspiring to kill her husband’s ex-wife has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Idaho woman Lori Vallow was in May found guilty of killing her

A skyscraper in Russia's capital Moscow has been hit again by a drone, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin says. Several drones were shot down overnight, he said, but "one flew into the same tower at the Moskva City complex" that was targeted on Sunday. The building's facade was

Sixteen workers were crushed to death late last night when a crane collapsed on them at a construction site in Thane's Shahapur in Maharashtra of India, police said. The crane fell on a group of workers who were engaged in the construction of the Samruddhi Expressway, killing them

A constable with India's Railway Protection Force (RPF) has been arrested after he shot dead four people on a train near the city of Mumbai. Police said the accused, Chetan Kumar, killed a senior RPF official and three passengers. They said they are investigating his motive and

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned war is coming back to Russia after a drone attack on the capital Moscow. Mr Zelensky said attacks on Russian territory were an "inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process" of the war between the two countries.

At least six people have been killed during clashes at a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon over the weekend. Clashes at the Ein el-Hilweh camp broke out between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement and rival Islamist groups. Among the six dead was a

At least 44 people have been killed in an explosion in Pakistan during a rally organised by an Islamist party. More than 100 people were also injured in the explosion in north-west Bajaur district, where Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) was holding a meeting. Police told the BBC

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has expressed concern about the movement of Russian Wagner forces in Belarus towards the Polish border. “We have information that more than 100 Wagner mercenaries have advanced towards the Suwalki Gap, not far from Grodno in

Tens of thousands of flag-waving Israelis have staged new nationwide protests days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed through a highly-contested law that limited some Supreme Court powers. Protesters beating drums and blaring horns took to the streets in cities including

The EU has suspended all security cooperation with Niger after the country's army took power in a coup. It comes shortly after the US declared its "unflagging support" for ousted president Mohamed Bazoum - seen as a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist

At least nine people have been killed, including three children, in a blast at a fireworks warehouse in a market in southern Thailand on Saturday. The explosion in Sungai Kolok, on the Malaysian border, seriously injured at least 115 people and is thought to have been caused by

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he does not reject the idea of peace talks on Ukraine. Speaking after meeting African leaders in St Petersburg, he said an African peace initiative as well as a Chinese one could serve as a basis for this. President Putin also said it was

Debris has been found after an Australian military helicopter crashed off the coast of Queensland, leaving four people missing, police say. The incident took place during US-Australian exercise off Lindeman Island on Friday night. Defence Minister Richard Marles said a search and

Singapore on Friday executed a woman for the first time in almost 20 years, officials confirmed. Singaporean national Saridewi Djamani, 45, was found guilty of trafficking 30g (1.06oz) of heroin in 2018. She is the second drug convict to be executed this week, after fellow

Donald Trump is facing new criminal charges after United States prosecutors accused the former president of ordering employees to delete security camera footage at his estate in order to hinder an investigation into the mishandling of classified documents. US federal prosecutors on