Indian police said on Monday they visited a Twitter office to serve notice to its country managing director about an investigation into the social media giant’s tagging of a post by a ruling party spokesman as “manipulated media”.

Military officers in Mali detained the president, prime minister and defence minister of the interim government on Monday, deepening political chaos just months after a military coup ousted the previous president, multiple sources told Reuters.

Iraq’s president said $150 billion from oil had been smuggled out of the country since Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003, as he introduced a law to fight endemic corruption.

Afghan forces clashed with Taliban fighters in a provincial capital about 120 kilometres (75 miles) from Kabul, officials and witnesses said, prompting the defence minister to take charge of a counteroffensive.

At least 115,000 health and care workers have died from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, the WHO chief said yesterday, calling for a dramatic scale-up of vaccination in all countries.

Iran has informed the UN nuclear watchdog that it has decided to extend a monitoring deal with the agency for a month, Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency said yesterday, according to the Etemad website.

Indian authorities yesterday ordered the evacuation of nearly half a million people out of the path of a new cyclone heading towards eastern India just one week after another deadly storm smashed into the west coast.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) yesterday filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) before the Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta High Court’s order allowing Narada case accused and senior leaders of TMC to be kept under house-arrest.

Belarus’ forced diversion of a plane and arrest of a journalist who was on board has widened a rift between Western powers and Minsk, prompting calls for further sanctions and an international probe over the incident.

For decades, it was the place to go for books in the blockaded Gaza Strip, from school texts to the Koran to Arabic translations of European literary classics.

Two light rail transit (LRT) trains collided on Monday (May 24) evening in an underground tunnel in Kuala Lumpur, leaving hundreds of passengers injured.

New York City’s school system, the largest in the country, will offer no remote learning option in the fall, requiring all of its 1.1 million students to attend classes in person after more than a year of disruption caused by the pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday.

Russia's foreign minister on Monday warned Turkey against what he said were attempts to fuel "militaristic sentiment" in Ukraine after Ankara moved to boost cooperation with Kyiv.

Cyclone Yaas is expected to make landfall in Balasore district in India’s eastern state of Odisha around noon on May 26.

In 2020, the US gave $3.8 billion in aid to Israel, most of it for military assistance, as part of a long-term yearly commitment.

A couple got married mid-air in the presence of guests and relatives onboard a SpiceJet airlines’ chartered flight on May 23 morning, in alleged violation of Covid-19 social distancing norms -- forcing Indian civil aviation authorities to take the entire cabin crew off duty.

The genocide against Rohingyas have shown no sign of abating in Myanmar, said the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) today.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today landed in New York, as part of his US visit, to meet with senior United States officials, and discuss Covid-related cooperation between the two countries, reports Hindustan Times.

As Bangladesh, along with West Bengal and Odisha, braces for Cyclone Yaas, let’s look at how the cyclone got its name.

The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal today intensified into Cyclone Yaas and it is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm packed with a maximum windspeed of 180km per hour in the next 24 hours, the India Meteorological Department has said.