Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling coalition comfortably retained power in Bihar, one of India’s poorest and most populous states, a vote count showed yesterday. The result gives him a boost after last year’s disappointing national vote.

Washington began carrying out such strikes -- which experts say amount to extrajudicial killings even if they target known traffickers -- in early September, taking aim at vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.

Pakistan’s top court called a meeting of all judges yesterday, after parliament passed a constitutional amendment this week that curbed its remit, prompting two judges to quit, saying the reform “stands as a grave assault on the constitution”.

India put new privacy rules into force yesterday that will make Meta, Google, OpenAI and other companies minimize collection of personal data and give people more control over their information.

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Azerbaijan sentenced a French businessman to 12 years in prison yesterday, accusing him of taking a bribe from a Russian oligarch in a case that also features a disgraced ex-bodyguard of French leader Emmanuel Macron.

Internet freedom declined in both the United States and Germany as Western democracies joined authoritarian states in imposing growing restrictions online, an annual survey by Freedom House said yesterday.

Turkey suspended flights by its C-130 military cargo planes as a precautionary measure a day after one crashed in neighbouring Georgia, killing all 20 people on board, the defence ministry said yesterday.

Syria will play an active role in assisting the United States in fighting armed groups including Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Hamas and Hezbollah, US special envoy Tom Barrack said yesterday.

A Turkish firefighting plane crashed in Croatia on Thursday, killing the pilot, Turkey's forestry minister said, two days after another deadly crash involving a Turkish military plane that killed 20

Scientists have observed for the first time the very early stages of a supernova, with a massive star exploding in a distinctive olive-like shape.

Brazil said it would extend negotiations at the COP30 summit to give nations time to bridge divides over thorny differences on climate goals and the finances required to achieve them.

Nepal imposed a travel ban on the former police chief yesterday as a government commission investigates his role in a deadly crackdown during the September uprising that toppled the government.

Pakistan’s parliament yesterday approved a sweeping constitutional amendment granting lifetime immunity to the president as well as the current army chief, a move critics warned would erode democratic checks and judicial independence.

The United States announced Wednesday that it was imposing sanctions on an armed Myanmar group -- alongside four of its senior leaders -- accusing them of supporting cyber scam centres that target Americans.

Israel yesterday carried out air attacks on Gaza’s northern city of Beit Lahiya, eastern areas of Gaza City and the southern city of Khan Younis, where artillery shelling has also been reported.

Afghan nationals carried out two suicide bombings in Pakistan this week, including one in the capital Islamabad, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said yesterday.

G7 foreign ministers on Wednesday called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and raised the alarm about the escalating crisis in Sudan, as they wrapped up a meeting in Canada.