Medicine stocks are critically low due to the aid block in Gaza, making it hard to keep hospitals even partially operational, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

The top UN trade official on Thursday urged the United States to spare the poorest countries “the pain of tariffs,” as the world braces for a possible global trade war unleashed by President Donald Trump.

The United Nations rights office yesterday decried attacks by Myanmar’s military despite a ceasefire declared following last month’s devastating earthquake, which killed more than 3,600 people.

More than 100 people have died since Wednesday after unseasonably heavy rain lashed parts of India and Nepal, officials said yesterday, as the weather department predicted more rain for the region.

Iran said yesterday it was giving high-level nuclear talks with the United States today “a genuine chance”, after President Donald Trump threatened bombing if discussions failed.

Over a thousand Sudanese refugees have reached or attempted to reach Europe in early 2025, the United Nations’ refugee agency said yesterday, citing growing desperation in part due to reduced aid in the region.

South Korea’s impeached ex-leader Yoon Suk Yeol embraced supporters as he left the presidential residence in the capital Seoul yesterday, after being stripped of his duties.

US troops will be able to deploy to a string of bases along the Panama Canal under a joint deal seen by AFP Thursday, a major concession to President Donald Trump as he seeks to reestablish influence over the vital waterway.

Member states of the Intentional Maritime Organization (IMO) voted in favour of a global pricing system to help curb maritime emissions, the UN shipping body announced yesterday.

Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan yesterday, the Supreme Court said, the highest number of executions to be carried out in one day since the Taliban’s return to power.

Indian investigative agencies yesterday questioned a man they extradited from the United States and charged with being a “mastermind” of the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege.

The Trump administration has added over 6,000 immigrants to a database of dead Social Security recipients, effectively cutting off benefits and their ability to work, US media reported Thursday.

Most of these attacks have involved aerial and artillery strikes, including in areas impacted by the earthquake

China also said it would "ignore" further tariff hikes

Stocks and the dollar tumbled while gold hit a fresh record high as panic gripped markets again Friday after Donald Trump admitted that his global tariff blitz could see "a transition cost".

Hundreds of thousands of people who are in the country illegally nevertheless have a US Social Security Number.

The US-China trade war intensified yesterday, sending the global economy into unknown territory and dampening relief after President Donald Trump’s earlier climbdown from a wider tariff onslaught against the rest of the world.

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a budget plan that lays the groundwork for extending President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, despite opposition from all Democrats and two Republicans who worried that it does not cut spending sufficiently.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth floated the idea on Wednesday of US troops returning to Panama to “secure” its strategically vital canal, a suggestion quickly shot down by the Central American country’s government.

Russia and the United States exchanged prisoners yesterday, the second such swap since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House as the two countries push for closer ties.