Several countries, including France and Britain, have pledged to recognise a Palestinian state during the UN General Assembly later this month

The decision comes less than a year after the 68-year-old took the helm of the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

Anutin previously served as deputy prime minister

Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight killed at least two people and wounded dozens more, authorities said, as a nationwide air alert was declared

DHS and its US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm are calling the operation Patriot 2.0, modifying the name of a May deportation surge that led to the arrest of 1,500 people in the state, according to the reports

It was the first shark-attack death in Sydney since a swimmer was killed off a beach in February 2022

People in Asia, including India and China, will be best placed to see Sunday's total eclipse, which will also be visible on the eastern edge of Africa as well as in western Australia

Israel has been warning for weeks of a new assault on the territory's largest city, without issuing a timeline.

Protesters packed a public square outside the military headquarters, waving Israeli flags and holding placards with images of the hostages

Several hundred people demonstrated in front of the UK parliament, with some holding placards that read: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

Picks former head of the Revenue Department

Trump had played down likelihood Kennedy would make radical change

Italian fashion icon Donatella Versace was among those who filed past Armani's closed casket at the headquarters of his lifestyle company

Trump previously told reporters that he "will always be friends with Modi".

US President Donald Trump said Friday he would host the 2026 G20 summit at his own golf resort in Miami -- despite abandoning a similar move in his first term after accusations of corruption

About 475 workers, most of whom were South Korean nationals, were arrested, according to US immigration officials

Trump has spent his first seven months in office building up massive tariff increases to reorder the global trading system

Prisoners in Uzbekistan will be able to plead for reduced sentences if they read books selected by authorities to cultivate “correct spiritual and moral values”, officials said.

Two Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets flew over a US Navy destroyer in the Caribbean on Thursday, a US official told Reuters, triggering a stern US warning to Venezuela against interfering in intensifying US military operations in the Caribbean.

President Donald Trump is changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, the White House announced Thursday, insisting the rebrand will project a more powerful image.