Initial intelligence reports suggested the strikes delayed Iran's nuclear programme only by months

Ukraine’s army chief yesterday ordered defensive lines to be built more quickly in the northeastern Sumy region, as Russian forces gained ground towards the industrial Dnipropetrovsk region.

Researchers at ETH University in Zurich have developed a new method to efficiently recover rare earth elements from electronic waste, advancing sustainable recycling and reducing mining reliance.

A total of 28 Bangladeshis have crossed into Pakistan and are expected to arrive in Karachi shortly

Rescuers in Gaza said Israeli gunfire and airstrikes killed 56 people in the territory yesterday, including six who they said were waiting to collect aid.

Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday said the US had to enter the war to save Israel, which almost collapsed amid Iranian strikes.

Defence ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in China were unable to adopt a joint statement at the end of their talks due to a lack of consensus on referring to “terrorism”, the Indian foreign ministry said yesterday.

The head of Gavi said yesterday the organisation which vaccinates children in the world’s poorest countries was “disappointed” after Washington announced it was pulling funding in an incendiary video questioning its safety standards.

Myanmar’s junta chief said the country plans to hold elections in December and January, state media reported yesterday, pressing ahead with polls denounced as a sham by international monitors.

Alaa al-Najjar was tending to wounded children at a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip when the news came through: the home where her own 10 children were staying had been bombed in an Israeli air strike.

"So far 260 deaths have been confirmed through DNA and police identification"

Just over 5,300 students were sitting the second day of the baccalaureat exams when the explosion happened on Wednesday in the capital Bangui.

Iran's Khamenei hails 'victory' in his first speech on Iran state TV since Israel ceasefire

China, whose donkey population has plummeted from 11 million in 1992 to 1.5 million in 2023, has turned to Africa to meet its demand.

After waves of Israeli attacks on nuclear and military sites and retaliatory missile fire from Iran since June 13, the United States bombed three key Iranian atomic facilities at the weekend.

"This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years," Ratcliffe said in a statement.

The current surge is mainly due to an increase in the size of the area under illicit coca bush cultivation in Colombia and updated yield data, it added.

No major damage has been reported from the series of quakes with a strength of at least one -- slightly perceptible to people seated quietly indoors -- on Japan's seven-point seismic intensity scale.

Iranian security forces started a campaign of widespread arrests accompanied by an intensified street presence based around checkpoints

Webb has directly imaged a young gas giant planet roughly the size of Saturn