A Saudi delegation visiting Damascus on Wednesday sealed investment and partnership deals valued at more than $5 billion to help rebuild war-battered Syria, the oil-rich Gulf kingdom announced

The World Health Organization's chief warned Wednesday of widespread starvation in Gaza, with food deliveries into the war-ravaged Palestinian territory "far below what is needed for the survival of the population"

The plan involves five dams along a 50‑km stretch where the river plunges 2,000  metres off the Tibetan Plateau.

"If you are asking whether the deal includes steel and aluminium, it does not," Ryosei Akazawa told reporters in Washington.

Trump has vowed to hit dozens of countries with punitive tariffs if they don't strike a deal with the United States by next month.

"It was a beautiful visit, and we concluded our Trade Deal, whereby The Philippines is going OPEN MARKET with the United States, and ZERO Tariffs.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Save the Children, and Oxfam are among the 111 organisations that signed the statement

Air India said yesterday it has completed precautionary inspections of the fuel control switch locking mechanism on all its Boeing 787 and 737 aircraft, with no issues detected.

US hotel hiring managers ordered more background checks in the first half of 2025 compared with the same period in 2024 amid growing scrutiny of foreign-

The US yesterday announced it has left Unesco, saying the UN cultural and education agency, best known for establishing world heritage sites, is biased against Israel and promotes “divisive” causes.

Britain on Monday slapped sanctions on 135 oil tankers in Russia’s shadow fleet, in a bid to disrupt the flow of money helping Moscow fund the war in Ukraine.

The White House on Monday barred The Wall Street Journal from traveling with US President Donald Trump during his upcoming visit to Scotland, after the newspaper reported that he wrote a bawdy birthday message to his former friend, alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched two attacks targeting Israel’s main airport, the latest yesterday, with the Israeli army intercepting both, a day after striking the rebel-held Yemeni port of Hodeida.

US President Donald Trump’s lunch meeting with Pakistan’s military chief prompted a private diplomatic protest from India in a warning to Washington about risks to their bilateral ties while New Delhi is recalibrating relations with China as a hedge, officials and analysts said.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the “accelerating breakdown of humanitarian conditions” in Gaza after more than 21 months of Israel’s offensive in the Palestinian territory.

Humans beat generative AI models made by Google and OpenAI at a top international mathematics competition, despite the programmes reaching gold-level scores for the first time.

WHO decried Israeli attacks Monday on its staff residence and its main warehouse in the central Gaza city of Deir el-Balah

The Trump administration released hundreds of thousands of pages of records on Monday about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr

An Indian court yesterday acquitted 12 men previously convicted for a series of bomb blasts that ripped through packed commuter trains in Mumbai in 2006 that killed 187 people.

The Israeli military attacked Houthi targets in Yemen’s Hodeidah port yesterday in its latest assault on the Iran-backed militants, who have been striking ships bound for Israel and launching missiles against it.