Unidentified gunmen in Nigeria’s restive Plateau state killed 14 people in an ambush Thursday as they returned home from a weekly market, local residents and a Red Cross official told AFP.

The number of Indonesians living under the poverty line has hit a record low for the past two decades, the country’s statistics bureau said yesterday.

A series of explosions killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 100 at a weapons depot in northwestern Syria on Thursday, a monitor said.

Iran said it would continue nuclear talks with European powers after “serious, frank, and detailed” conversations yesterday, the first such face-to-face meeting since Israel and the US bombed Iran last month.

An internal US government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian group Hamas of US-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the US give for backing a new armed private aid operation.

Doctors Without Borders charity said yesterday that a quarter of all young children screened at its clinics in Gaza were malnourished, blaming Israel’s “policy of starvation”.

SpaceX’s Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when an internal software failure knocked tens of thousands of users offline, a rare disruption for Elon Musk’s powerful satellite internet system.

The United States lifted sanctions designations on several allies of Myanmar’s ruling generals on Thursday, two weeks after the head of the ruling junta praised President Donald Trump and called for an easing of sanctions in a letter responding to a tariff warning.

At least seven children were killed and 17 injured in India’s western state of Rajasthan after the roof of a school building collapsed yesterday, local media reported, with dozens still feared trapped under the rubble.

Thailand’s acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai warned yesterday that cross-border clashes with Cambodia that have uprooted more than 130,000 people “could develop into war”, as the countries traded deadly strikes for a second day.

France will formally recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday

Concern is mounting that recent violent anti-immigrant protests could herald a new summer of unrest, a year after the UK was rocked by its worst riots in decades

President Donald Trump and US trade officials on Thursday welcomed Australia's decision to ease restrictions on beef imported from the United States, which has been a sticking point for the US leader.

Nigerian troops killed at least 95 members of an armed criminal gang in a shootout and airstrikes earlier this week, according to a situation report shared with the UN and seen by AFP yesterday.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday convicted a former top Central African Republic football official and a militiaman nicknamed Rambo for multiple war crimes committed during the country’s civil war in 2013 and 2014.

A Russian Antonov An-24 passenger plane carrying 48 people crashed in the country’s far east yesterday as it was preparing to land, killing everyone on board, the regional governor and investigators said.

Ukraine and Russia launched air attacks along each other’s Black Sea coasts early yesterday, hours after brief direct talks between them failed to make any progress on steps to end nearly three-and-a-half years of war.

People who walk 7,000 steps a day have a dramatically lower risk of a broad range of serious health problems, the largest review of the evidence yet said yesterday.

The Philippines shut down schools and cancelled flights yesterday as typhoon-driven rains pounded the northern island of Luzon, a situation President Ferdinand Marcos called “the new normal”.

Columbia University said Wednesday it will pay $200 million to the US government after President Donald Trump threatened to pull federal funding over what he said was its unwillingness to protect Jewish students.