Russian artillery and aerial attacks killed nine people in Ukraine -- including a child -- in strikes across the country yesterday, officials said.

The Iran war has put US global leadership on the line, Italy’s Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said, expressing fear about the “madness” of nuclear escalation.

With the judicial adjudication process for voters in West Bengal concluded on Monday midnight, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has estimated that the total number of deleted voters in West Bengal has risen to approximately 91 lakh.

Taiwan’s main opposition leader landed in China yesterday for a rare visit aimed at building cross-strait “peace”, as the Taipei government warned Beijing would seek to stop US arms sales to the democratic island.

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 people and wounded several others outside a school housing displaced Palestinians on Monday, health officials said, the latest violence to overshadow the fragile US-backed Gaza ceasefire deal.

Heavy rain, storms and floods have battered Asian neighbours Afghanistan and Pakistan for more than two weeks, killing at least 188 people, disaster officials in both countries said yesterday.

The 34km wide Strait provides passage from the Gulf to the Indian Ocean and is the main route for about a fifth of world oil supplies

Major updates on the US-Israel war on Iran

Trump, earlier, said a 'whole civilisation' could be wiped out

Tehran rejects temporary ceasefire, senior Iranian source says

'Two of the attackers were brothers,' says Turkish Minister

Iran says Pakistani mediation efforts at 'critical stage'

From solar eclipses and meteor strikes to naming new craters, the historic mission pushes humanity further into space

The conclusions, reviewed by Reuters, also found that Russian and Iranian hackers were collaborating in the cyber domain.

Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan says diplomatic push intensifying to prevent further escalation

European carriers are bracing for similar disruption after Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz cut off nearly 21% of global seaborne jet fuel supply, according to Kpler.

Iran’s hardline regime is known to have compromised only twice in its 47-year history. And US president is well known to climb down after issuing outsized threats, all in the name of negotiations

Trump ended the call by inviting the astronauts to the White House

After securing another term as the party's general secretary in January, Lam will now take over the number two position in Vietnamese politics -- unifying leadership of the party and state as President Xi Jinping did in neighbouring China

Iran resists reopening Strait, seeks lasting end to war amid US pressure