Thousands of people have fled across the border to Thailand amid fierce fighting between Myanmar’s armed rebel groups and the military, according to Thai officials. Myanmar was plunged into turmoil when the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in

The Israeli military has struck besieged Gaza and southern Lebanon following a day of rocket fire from the Palestinian territory and from Lebanon in reaction to Israel's back-to-back military incursions into the Al Aqsa Mosque — Islam's third-holiest site. Hamas, which

Gunmen have killed at least 50 people during two attacks on a village in north-central Nigeria, authorities said Thursday. Ruben Bako, chairman of the Otukpo local government where the massacre happened, said that gunmen killed 47 people on Wednesday in Umogidi village in Benue state.

A continued slowdown in almost all the world's advanced economies is expected to drag global growth below three percent this year, the International Monetary Fund's managing director warned on Thursday. "With rising geopolitical tensions and still-high inflation, a robust

The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia have met in Beijing in the first formal meeting of the two countries’ top diplomats in seven years. Saudi Arabia’s state-run broadcaster Al Ekhbariya released brief footage of the meeting on Twitter on Thursday showing Prince

France is bracing for another day of protests and strikes on Thursday to denounce President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform after talks between the government and unions ended in deadlock. There have been signs that the two-and-a-half month protest movement is starting to lose

Violence resumed for a second straight night in Jerusalem on Wednesday when Palestinian worshippers barricaded themselves inside Al-Aqsa Mosque at the Old City’s sensitive compound and Israeli police used force to remove dozens of worshippers. The unrest was less intense than the

French President Emmanuel Macron landed in China on Wednesday for a three-day visit. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was also expected to join the trip. The leaders will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping with the objective of repairing ties with Beijing —

Israeli police have attacked dozens of worshippers in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound injuring seven people, according to witnesses. The raid took place before dawn on Wednesday with Israeli police claiming they were responding to “rioting”. The Palestinian Red

Gunmen have abducted a journalist in Mexico's violent eastern state of Veracruz, prompting a search operation to locate him, authorities and his employer said Tuesday. Richard Villa was snatched in the city of Poza Rica on Monday while repairing his motorcycle, according to the

Former US President Donald Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felony charges during a court hearing in New York. The former US president is seen sitting alongside his lawyers to hear the charges against him. Click the play button at the top of this page to watch live BBC News coverage of

Former President Donald Trump has entered the courtroom for his arraignment, where he's expected to plead not guilty to all charges. Trump arrived at the Manhattan district attorney's office earlier Tuesday afternoon, where he was placed under arrest and in police custody

In its latest attempt to lay claims over Indian territory, China's Ministry of Civil Affairs has standardised the names of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, which it referred to as "Zangnan, the southern part of Tibet." China has come up with the names of 11 places in

Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday, in a historic strategic shift provoked by Moscow's war on Ukraine, which doubles the US-led alliance's border with Russia. Last year, the Kremlin's all-out invasion of Ukraine upended Europe's security landscape and

About 120 residents living near Colombia's Nevada del Ruiz volcano were being evacuated Monday, officials said, after increased seismic activity. A 1985 eruption by the volcano that killed 25,000 people is considered the worst natural disaster in Colombian history and one of the

Donald Trump will make an unprecedented appearance before a New York judge Tuesday to answer criminal charges that threaten to throw the 2024 White House race into turmoil. Trump is the first sitting or former American president to be criminally indicted -- a historic development that

Finland is set to become the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. The country's flag will be hoisted outside NATO headquarters as it becomes the newest member of the Western alliance. "Tomorrow we will welcome Finland as the 31st

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was granted bail today in a 2019 defamation case and his two-year jail sentence was paused until a decision on his appeal challenging his conviction. A Gujarat court will take up his appeal on April 13. Mr Gandhi, accompanied by sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

The killing of Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky is being investigated as a "high-profile murder", authorities have said. Tatarsky, a vocal supporter of Russia's war in Ukraine, died in an explosion at a St Petersburg cafe on Sunday evening. Twenty-four others

Russia will place tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus near its ally’s borders with NATO countries, the Russian envoy to Minsk has said, in a move set to escalate tensions with the West. Russian ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov said on Sunday night that the weapons would be