India’s intelligence failure was central to the hour-long air battle between Pakistan and India in May, which led to the downing of Rafale aircraft by the Pakistan Air Force’s J-10 fighters using PL-15s missiles, according to a report.

More than 120 firefighters were trying to extinguish a blaze at an oil depot in the Russian city of Sochi that was sparked by a Ukrainian drone attack, regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said yesterday on the Telegram messaging app.

China and Russia began joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan yesterday as they seek to reinforce their partnership and counterbalance what they see as a US-led global order.

Since the beginning of 2025, Saudi Arabia has executed 230 people, according to an AFP tally of official reports.

Since his January 20 return to power, the US president "has brokered, on average, one peace deal or ceasefire per month"

Some of those attending the march, called by its organisers the 'March for Humanity', carried pots and pans as symbols of the hunger.

"This is the first historically confirmed eruption of Krasheninnikov Volcano in 600 years," RIA cited Olga Girina

"Hunger has driven people to turn on each other. People are fighting each other with knives"

Indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel aimed at securing a 60-day ceasefire in the Gaza war and deal for the release of hostages ended last week in deadlock.

The J-10s shot down at least one Rafale, Reuters reported in May, citing U.S. officials.

The amount of aid entering Gaza remains “very insufficient” despite a limited improvement, the German government said on Saturday after ministers discussed ways to heighten pressure on Israel.

Ukrainian drone strikes killed three people and wounded two others overnight in western Russia, regional governors said yesterday.

A Florida jury on Friday ordered Tesla to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to plaintiffs who blamed a deadly 2019 crash on the company’s “Autopilot” driver assistance technology.

Floods and landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Wipha since last month have killed six people and affected more than 230,000 people across Thailand, disaster management officials said yesterday.

India will keep purchasing oil from Russia despite US President Donald Trump’s threats of penalties, two Indian government sources said, not wishing to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter.

Negotiators will take another stab at reaching a global pact on plastic pollution at talks opening Tuesday in Geneva but they face deep divisions over how to tackle the health and ecological hazard.

US envoy Steve Witkoff met anguished relatives of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza yesterday, as fears for the captives’ survival mounted almost 22 months into the war sparked by Hamas’s October 2023 attack.

Gaza faces a grave risk of famine, with one in three people going days without food, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) has warned.

US President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines Friday in an extraordinary escalation of what had been an online war of words with a Russian official over Ukraine and tariffs.

Reuters could not immediately verify the report.