India is open to looking into any "specific" information Canada provides on the killing of a Sikh separatist leader, the country's foreign minister said. S Jaishankar was referring to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada in June. Tensions flared up after Canada

Donald Trump "repeatedly" misrepresented his wealth by hundreds of millions of dollars to banks and insurers, a New York judge has ruled. The decision resolves the key claim made by New York's attorney general in her civil lawsuit against the former president.

At least 113 people have been killed and more than 150 injured in a fire that ripped through a wedding celebration in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province, local officials and emergency services said. Nineveh Deputy Governor Hassan al-Allaq told the Reuters news agency that 113

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry on Monday, reacting to the India-Canada diplomatic row, said terrorists have found safe haven in Canada and their Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came out with the outrageous allegations without any proof. Speaking exclusively to ANI, Mr Sabry said

The United States has offered Poland a direct loan of $2 billion (€1.89 billion) to support the modernization of its NATO ally's military forces. "Poland is a stalwart US Ally, and Poland's security is vital to the collective defense of NATO's Eastern Flank,"

Ukraine’s special forces said that the commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Viktor Sokolov, and 33 other officers were killed in a Ukrainian missile attack on the fleet’s headquarters in the Crimean port of Sevastopol last week. Ukraine’s claim to have

The Philippines says it has removed a floating barrier installed by China to block Philippine fishing boats entering a contested area in the South China Sea. The Philippines coast guard said it had been instructed to do so by President Ferdinand Marcos Junior. Manila says China

The US is "in a space race with China to go back to the moon", says Nasa chief Bill Nelson. In a BBC interview, Mr Nelson says he wants to make sure "we get there first". His comments revive memories of the 1960s and 1970s, when Nasa was in a space race with

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev have hailed Baku’s military victory in Nagorno-Karabakh as thousands of ethnic Armenians flee from the breakaway region into Armenia. Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory that is

Azerbaijan pledged to respect the rights of ethnic Armenians in the region but many local residents fear reprisals and said they were planning to leave for Armenia. Thousands of Armenians have streamed out of Nagorno-Karabakh after the Azerbaijani military reclaimed full control of the

Images posted on social media show buoys placed by China that block Philippine fishing boats from entering an area within Manila’s Exclusive Economic Zone. The Philippines has accused China’s coastguard of installing a “floating barrier” in a disputed area of

Joe Biden, the president of the United States, is set to announce the opening of new embassies on the Cook Islands and Niue as part of a charm offensive to block Chinese inroads into the South Pacific. The announcement about the new diplomatic missions on Sunday came as Biden prepared

Given the dramatic developments in Canada, where PM Trudeau has said there is credible evidence to suggest India was involved in the killing of a Canadian Sikh, it is unsurprising that rumours now swirl around the deaths of other Sikh activists around the world, including in the UK.

President Emmanuel Macron has said France will withdraw its ambassador and end all military co-operation with Niger following a coup. "France has decided to withdraw its ambassador. In the next hours our ambassador and several diplomats will return to France," Mr Macron said.

Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinians in a pre-dawn raid in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, as the army confirmed it carried out "counter-terrorism" activity in the occupied territory. "Two Palestinians were killed by live Israeli

A prominent Uyghur academic has been reportedly jailed for life by China for "endangering state security". Rahile Dawut's sentence was confirmed after she appealed against a 2018, according to the US-based Dui Hua Foundation rights group. The 57-year-old professor lost

At least 35 people, including a child, killed after a blaze engulfs an illegal fuel depot along Benin’s border with Nigeria, officials and residents say. At least 35 people have been killed in Benin after a fuel depot exploded into flames, sending a black cloud of smoke into the

A row between Canada and India over the murder of a Sikh separatist has stoked talk of political friction among some Sikhs and Hindus in the diaspora, though others say it's overblown. After Mr Trudeau's public accusation on Monday that India may have been behind the killing of

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has issued a forceful rebuke to Russian “genocide” from the floor of Canada’s Parliament, as he continues to rally support for his war-torn country. “Moscow — now, as always — is bent on controlling Ukraine and

Taiwan’s defence minister has described China’s increased military activities around the island as “abnormal” and warned that it increased the risk of an accidental clash and the situation “getting out of hand”. Over the past two weeks, dozens of