Malaysia's leader Anwar Ibrahim has said his nation will maintain ties with Hamas and will "not punish" the group. Malaysians should "unanimously back" the Palestinian cause, the prime minister told parliament on Tuesday. Mr Anwar was responding to a proposal

A series of drone strikes around the town of Kidal in northern Mali have killed at least 14 people in the rebel stronghold, the town's mayor said Tuesday. Kidal Mayor Arbakane Ag Abzayack told The Associated Press that the town's deputy mayor and a local councillor were among

The death toll has risen to 25 from an attack on a village in Cameroon's southwest region, the government said on Tuesday. More than 20 people died when gunmen raided the village of Egbekaw, a neighborhood in the town of Mamfe in southwest Cameroon at around 3 a.m. local time

The world is set to have been hotter in 2023 than in any other year on record, scientists have declared, before a landmark climate summit this month. “We can say with near certainty that 2023 will be the warmest year on record, and is currently 1.43C above the pre-industrial

Hundreds of US Jewish activists have peacefully occupied New York’s Statue of Liberty to demand an end to Israel’s “genocidal bombardment” of civilians in Gaza and a ceasefire. Dressed in black T-shirts emblazoned with the slogans “Jews demand ceasefire

Millions have begun voting in the states of Mizoram and Chhattisgarh as a round of key state elections kick off in India. They are among five states going to the polls between 7 and 30 November. Vote counting is due on 3 December. These polls are seen as a precursor to the national

A close adviser to the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s army has been killed after a grenade amongst his birthday presents exploded, according to officials. “Under tragic circumstances, my assistant and close friend, Major Gennadiy Chastiakov, was killed … on his

Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Moham­madi began a hunger strike on Monday in protest against what she said was the jail’s failure to give her access to medical care, the activist HRANA news agency reported. The women’s rights advocate won the award

The death toll from Israel's month-long brutal bombardment of the Gaza Strip surpassed 10,000 on Monday, with that harrowing number likely to rise as thousands more are missing. Gaza health ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidreh told media on Monday afternoon that 10,022 people had

China has urged Myanmar to “cooperate” on keeping their shared border stable after armed groups fighting the military government captured a key trading outpost. Beijing said on Monday that Assistant Foreign Minister Nong Rong visited Myanmar over the weekend to discuss

The Palestinian Authority (PA) could return to power in the Gaza Strip only if a “comprehensive political solution” is found to the Israel-Palestine conflict, according to PA President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas on Sunday met with the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is

Australian PM Anthony Albanese and Chinese President Xi Jinping will soon sit down for a drought-breaking bilateral meeting in Beijing. Mr Albanese, who landed in Shanghai on Saturday, is the first Australian leader to visit China since 2016. The visit is seen as a key moment in

The US secretary of state has arrived in Turkey as he continues his diplomatic tour of the region - and pushes for a pause in the fighting. Speaking earlier in Baghdad, Antony Blinken said regional leaders would "welcome" a humanitarian pause in Gaza. Israel says it needs

Former President Obama (D) said “nobody’s hands are clean” amid conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. “[I]f you want to solve the problem, then, you have to take in the whole truth,” Obama said in a Pod Save America podcast clip

A demand by Jordan and Egypt for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was rejected by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at an Arab foreign ministers meeting in Amman on Saturday. Blinken said that a truce would be counterproductive, and made clear the furthest he would go was support for

A diver who spotted something metallic not far from Sardinia's coast has led to the discovery of tens of thousands of ancient bronze coins. Italy’s culture ministry said Saturday that the diver alerted authorities, who sent divers assigned to an art protection squad along

North Korea has created a new holiday to celebrate the anniversary of the successful test launch of its Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile last year, state media reported Sunday. On Nov. 18, 2022, Pyongyang carried out what is believed to be the first full flight test of the

More than 600 people have been executed by Iran so far this year, already the highest figure in eight years with two months of 2023 to go, a rights group said Friday. There were nine executions in a single day in a prison outside Tehran this week, while two people face execution after

Nine terrorists were killed in a clearance operation after the Pakistan Army foiled a terrorist attack on the Mianwali Training Air Base of the Pakistan Air Force in the early hours of Saturday, the military’s media wing said. The development comes on the heels of a series of

At least 13 people have been killed in a blast outside Gaza City's biggest hospital, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says. BBC Verify has verified graphic videos showing badly injured and possibly dead people lying outside the hospital. The Israeli military has confirmed