At least 15 people, including children, have been killed in an air strike on a village in northwestern Myanmar, local media said Sunday. The country has been engulfed by increasingly vicious fighting, with the junta battling opponents in the north and the east. The strike hit a

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Palestinians must not be pressured into leave Gaza, and must be allowed to return to their homes once conditions allow. Mr Blinken condemned statements by some Israeli ministers, who called for the resettlement of Palestinians elsewhere. The

The Maldives has suspended three deputy ministers who made derogatory comments about India and its PM Narendra Modi. The officials had responded to a social media post from Mr Modi, calling him a "clown", "terrorist" and a "puppet of Israel". A foreign

The US aviation regulator has said 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes will remain grounded until it is satisfied the planes are safe. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been inspecting the jets after part of an Alaska Airlines plane's fuselage fell off on Friday. The FAA

A woman in her 90s trapped for five days under the rubble by a huge earthquake in central Japan was rescued against the odds, but snow and storms were expected to complicate relief efforts on Sunday. At least 126 people died in the magnitude-7.5 tremor on New Year’s Day and its

The Israeli army says it has "completed the dismantling" of Hamas's command structure in the northern Gaza Strip. Army spokesman Daniel Hagari told reporters that Palestinian militants are now operating in the area only sporadically and "without commanders".

The US airline regulator has ordered the grounding of some Boeing 737 Max 9 jets after part of one plane fell off during an Alaska Airlines flight. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the inspections would affect 171 planes. On Friday the Alaska Airlines flight had to

A Russian missile strike has killed 11 people, including five children, in eastern Ukraine, a local official says. S-300 missiles hit the town of Pokrovsk in Ukrainian-held territory in Donetsk region, the regional governor said. "The enemy is cynically hitting civilians,

At least 122 Palestinians have been killed and 256 others injured over the past 24 hours in Gaza, its health ministry said in a statement on Saturday (January 6). The latest deaths bring the total death toll in Gaza since October 7 to 22,722 Palestinians, with 58,166 others injured.

The death toll from a major earthquake in western Japan reached 100 Saturday, as rescue workers fought aftershocks to carefully pull people from the rubble. Deaths had reached 98 earlier in the day, but two more deaths were reported in Anamizu, while officials in Ishikawa prefecture,

At least 18 Palestinians killed after Israeli attacks targeted a house in Khan Younis overnight. Israeli forces raiding locations across the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem with reports of fierce Palestinian resistance. UN humanitarian chief says Gaza has become a

In his first campaign speech of 2024, President Joe Biden cast his likely election opponent, Donald Trump, as a fundamental threat to American democracy. "Whether democracy is still America's sacred cause is the most urgent question of our time," Mr Biden said.

The US Supreme Court has said it will hear a historic case to determine if Donald Trump can run for president. The justices agreed to take up Mr Trump's appeal against a decision by Colorado to remove him from the 2024 ballot in that state. The case will be heard in February and

Two elderly women were pulled from the rubble, but hopes of finding other survivors faded as thousands of rescuers raced against the clock four days after the 7.5-magnitude quake on New Year's Day. Thousands of rescuers from all over Japan have been battling aftershocks and roads

Myanmar’s military government has pardoned more than 9,000 prisoners, including 114 foreign nationals, to mark the country’s Independence Day. Friends and families of prisoners gathered outside the high-security Insein Prison in the commercial capital Yangon as the releases

Iran blamed Israel and the United States on Wednesday for twin bomb blasts that killed at least 84 people in the country’s south, ripping through a crowd commemorating Revolutionary Guards general Qasem Soleimani four years after his death in a US strike.  The two explosions

The death toll has risen to 78 in the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa as of Thursday morning, after a series of earthquakes of up to 7.6 magnitude struck the prefecture and its vicinity. The most stricken city of Wajima in Ishikawa has confirmed a total of 44 deaths, the

Sweden recorded some of their coldest temperatures of the winter for a second day in a row Wednesday when thermometers plummeted as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit). The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute reported temperatures below minus 40 C and 30

The United States on Wednesday rejected any suggestion that it or ally Israel was behind deadly blasts in Iran and warned against further escalation after a suspected Israeli attack on a Hamas leader in Lebanon. At least 103 people died in southern Iran at the grave of Revolutionary

A local Hezbollah official, Hussein Yazbek, has been killed along with eight other members of the group in Israeli strikes on Wednesday amid Lebanese border clashes. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says his fighters are not afraid of war, but avoided any declaration that his forces