Former Iraqi president Barham Salih will become the next United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a UN source told AFP on Friday, taking over an agency tackling swingeing budget cuts.

Mohammadi was granted temporary leave from prison in December 2024

Outgoing govt previously formed in Jan 2025

Move comes amid renewed clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along their disputed border

Two 20-cm waves had so far been recorded

Time magazine named the architects of artificial intelligence its “Person of the Year” yesterday, citing their ability to deliver the age of thinking machines with transformative technology.

A top Hamas leader told Qatari news channel Al Jazeera that the group is open to a weapons “freeze”, but rejects the demand for disarmament put forward in the US-sponsored peace plan for Gaza.

President Donald Trump’s administration officially launched his “Trump Gold Card” visa programme on Wednesday to provide a pathway, with a steep price, for non-US citizens to get expedited permission to live in the United States.

Bulgaria’s prime minister announced yesterday that his government was resigning after less than a year in office following a series of anti-corruption protests.

Nepalese officials on Wednesday inked a landmark agreement with representatives of the Gen Z movement, whose September uprising toppled the Himalayan nation’s government.

Ukrainian aerial drones struck a Russian oil platform in the Caspian Sea for the first time yesterday, halting production at the facility owned by Lukoil, according to an official from Ukraine’s Security Service.

The US has seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, a move that sent oil prices higher and sharply escalated tensions between Washington and Caracas.

Fighting raged yesterday along the border of Cambodia and Thailand, with explosions heard near centuries-old temples ahead of US President Donald Trump’s planned phone call to the leaders of both nations.

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At least 15 people, including Thai soldiers and Cambodian civilians, have been killed in the reignited border conflict, officials say

Machado dedicated honour in part to US President Donald Trump

Signals new effort to go after Venezuela's main revenue source

Changing tariffs will also affect South Korea, India, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Taiwan and Brazil

The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to order visa-exempt foreign tourists to disclose their social media histories from the last five years before entering the country, according to an official notice.

Vietnam’s parliament yesterday approved legislation that will compel journalists to disclose sources under certain circumstances and ban the online dissemination of “anti-state” information, sparking criticism from press freedom advocates.