Hundreds of people in Baghdad have attempted to storm the city’s Green Zone, a heavily fortified area with a number of foreign embassies and the seat of Iraq’s government. Nearly 1,000 protesters were dispersed by security forces early on Saturday, in reaction to reports of

A drone attack on an ammunition depot in Crimea has led to civilian evacuations and disrupted transport, Russian authorities have said. Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed governor of occupied Crimea, said Ukraine was behind the attack, without providing evidence. Mr Aksyonov

A man has been arrested in Mexico on suspicion of setting fire to a bar after he was kicked out, killing 11 people, officials say. The attack happened on Friday night in San Luis Rio Colorado, which borders the United States. The bar sits just one street away from the border.

A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is "unprecedented". Dangerous heatwaves sweeping Europe could break further records, according to the UN. It is hard to immediately

North Korea has fired "several cruise missiles" into the Yellow Sea between China and the Korean peninsula, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said Saturday. The launches, which the military said took place around 4 am (1900 GMT), come as relations between the two Koreas

One of the teens, Muhammad Fouad Atta al-Bayed, died of a gunshot wound to the head after demonstrations in Umm Safa, Palestinian health ministry says. Israeli forces have killed two teenage Palestinian boys in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said, on Friday – the

Russian president says his country will retaliate against any attack on its ally with all means at its disposal as Poland denies having any territorial ambitions in Belarus. Handout shows a joint training of PMC Wagner fighters with Belarusian special forces servicemen at the Brestsky

Questions are being asked about the role of the police in the ghastly incident where two women were paraded naked by a mob of men in India's Manipur state. A video of the incident, which took place on 4 May, went viral on Wednesday and caused global outrage. On Thursday, police

July 2023 will probably be the world's hottest month in "hundreds, if not thousands, of years," leading NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt has said. This month has already seen daily records shattered according to tools run by the European Union and the University of Maine,

Controversial cluster munitions supplied by the United States are being used “effectively” by Ukrainian forces in their counteroffensive against Russia’s invasion, a senior Washington defence official said. “We have gotten some initial feedback from the

More than 40 countries have expressed interest in joining the BRICS group of nations, South Africa’s top diplomat in charge of relations with the bloc said on Thursday. Aside from the 22 countries that had formally asked to join, there was “an equal number of countries that

Russia's mutinous mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been shown in a video welcoming his fighters to Belarus, telling them they would take no further part in the Ukraine war for now but ordering them to gather their strength for Africa. The West has interpreted Wagner's

A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump's request for a new trial in a civil case in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming columnist E Jean Carroll. Mr Trump was ordered to pay $5m (£3.9m) in damages, which he argued was excessive based on the

Russia's president will not attend a summit in South Africa next month, according to the country's presidency. The announcement comes after South Africa's leader said any attempt to arrest Vladimir Putin would be a declaration of war against Russia. If Mr Putin had left

Israeli forces have shot a Palestinian dead and injured at least four others – two in serious condition – in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry and the Red Crescent said. The Palestinian health ministry said a person was shot dead before

Wheat prices have risen sharply on global markets after Russia said it would treat ships heading for Ukrainian ports as potential military targets. Moscow pulled out of a deal this week that had guaranteed safe passage for grain shipments through the Black Sea. A White House

A day after the Opposition front of 26 parties chose I.N.D.I.A as its name, Jeetega Bharat (India will win) has been finalised as the tagline of the coalition that aims to take on the BJP in the 2024 general election. The final decision on the tagline was taken following detailed

Israel has carried out air attacks near Syria’s capital Damascus, wounding two Syrian soldiers, Syrian state news has reported. The state-run news agency SANA reported early on Wednesday morning that Syrian air defences had confronted Israeli missiles launched at 12.25 am local

North Korea has launched two ballistic missiles into its eastern sea, the Japanese and South Korean militaries said, just hours after a United States nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine arrived in a South Korean port for the first time in four decades. Both of the missiles

Russia has launched a second night of air raids on Ukraine’s port city of Odesa as well as attacking the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said, while reports also emerged of explosions in the Russian-annexed Crimean port city of Sevastopol. Odesa regional Governor Oleh Kiper