UK PM has faced criticism for appointing Mandelson

His legal team said Tuesday they would challenge the verdict

Unauthorised drones disrupted more than 50 flights at Vietnam’s Danang international airport during the busy Lunar New Year holiday, state media said yesterday.

Iran yesterday said that a US attack of any scale would spur the Islamic republic to respond “ferociously”, after President Donald Trump said he was considering limited strikes against the country.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung held summit talks in Seoul yesterday with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, where they agreed to expand cooperation in sectors including trade, key minerals, technology and culture.

Malaysia introduced new legislation yesterday to restrict the prime minister’s tenure to a maximum of two terms, a move aimed at boosting accountability and curbing the overreach of executive powers.

Clashes between security forces and militants in Indian-administered Kashmir killed three suspected rebel fighters on Sunday, the Indian army said, the second such incident in the disputed territory this month.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered a shutdown Sunday of the city’s entire traffic network to all but emergency travel ahead of a massive snowstorm expected to hit the northeast United States.

Human rights are under assault worldwide, the United Nations chief warned yesterday, citing widespread abuses of international law and devastating civilian suffering in conflicts in Sudan, Gaza, and Ukraine.

More than 200 political prisoners in Venezuela have launched a hunger strike to demand their release, family members told AFP on Sunday, after a new mass amnesty law was enacted following the ouster of former leader Nicolas Maduro.

One of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords, Nemesio Oseguera, or “El Mencho,” was killed in a military raid on Sunday, sparking widespread retaliatory violence.

President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that developing Russia’s nuclear forces was now an “absolute priority” following the expiry of its last remaining nuclear treaty with the US.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez yesterday accused the United States of trying to trigger a “humanitarian catastrophe” in his country with an oil blockade he called an “aggressive escalation”.

Seven irregular migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been found dead on a beach east of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, a Libyan Red Crescent worker told AFP on Sunday.

Washington yesterday accused China of dramatically swelling its nuclear arsenal, and doubled down on claims that Beijing has conducted secret nuclear tests, demanding again it be part of any future arms control treaty.

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