The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to order visa-exempt foreign tourists to disclose their social media histories from the last five years before entering the country, according to an official notice.

Vietnam’s parliament yesterday approved legislation that will compel journalists to disclose sources under certain circumstances and ban the online dissemination of “anti-state” information, sparking criticism from press freedom advocates.

Israeli forces carried out a wave of raids across several parts of the occupied West Bank yesterday morning, arresting more than 100 Palestinians.

War of words between members of the Pakistan’s ruling PML-N and the PTI continued yesterday, with Coordinator to the Prime Minister on Information for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Affairs Ikhtiar Wali Khan saying that “things have reached a point of no return”, while PTI chairman Barrister Gohar Ali stressed that “better sense should prevail”.

Half a million evacuees in Cambodia and Thailand were sheltering in pagodas, schools and other safe havens yesterday after fleeing fresh fighting in a century-old border dispute in which US President Donald Trump has vowed to again intercede.

OHCHR has $90 million less in funding than it needed this year, which resulted in 300 jobs cuts, directly impacting the office's work

Machado, 58, is due to receive the award at a ceremony at Oslo City Hall

"Tomorrow, I have to make a phone call, and I think they'll get it," he continued.

Among those sanctioned is Russian media outlet Rybar

US government has initiated a major overhaul of vaccine policy

With three months to go before elections on March 5, Nepal faces daunting challenges including rising unemployment and collapsing foreign investment.

This week's clashes are the deadliest since five days of fighting in July that killed dozens

Several told AFP they are worried about high prices but stopped short of blaming the 79-year-old billionaire

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes up a filament in the macrostructure of the universe called the cosmic web.

Donald Trump has suggested he could withdraw support for Ukraine as he escalated his administration’s criticism of Europe, describing the continent as “weak” and “decaying” and claiming it was “destroying itself” through immigration.

Pakistani Taliban militants stormed a security checkpoint in Pakistan’s northwestern border area with Afghanistan, killing six soldiers and wounding four others, a government official said yesterday.

Hamas said yesterday that the Gaza ceasefire plan cannot proceed to its second phase as long as Israeli “violations” persist and called on mediators to pressure Israel to respect the agreement.

Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia yesterday spread to new parts of their contested border as the toll rose to 10 killed and more than 140,000 civilians fled the violence.

Israel launched a series of strikes on southern Lebanon yesterday, Lebanese state media reported, with the Israeli army saying it hit a Hezbollah training centre and other targets.

Nepal’s Election Commission said yesterday that 114 political parties, several new, have been approved to contest the first polls since a mass uprising ousted the government.