North Korea has fired at least one “unidentified ballistic missile” off its east coast, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. There were no immediate details on Wednesday’s launch with the JCS saying it needed further analysis. Japan’s Coast

Emergency workers uncovered hundreds of bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna, and it is feared the toll could spiral, with 10,000 people still reported missing after floodwaters from Storm Daniel smashed through dams and washed away entire neighbourhoods. More

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has finally taken off after being stranded in India for over 36 hours. But he is going to land in Canada amid backlash and criticism over his domestic policies and diplomatic failure at the recently held G20 Summit in India. The mood in Canada is

Over 100,000 children have been affected by the powerful earthquake that struck Morocco last Friday, the UN Children's Agency (UNICEF) has said. ''While UNICEF doesn’t yet know the exact number of children killed and injured, the latest estimates from 2022 indicate

The five-member delegation arrived on Sunday, an Israeli official told AFP, for the meeting to update UNESCO's world heritage list of cultural and historic sites. "We are happy to be here -- it's a good first step," said the official, who did not want to be named

At least six people have been killed and dozens wounded in clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, first responders said on Monday as fighting raged for a fifth day. Violence broke out late on Thursday in the Ain al-Helweh camp on the outskirts of the coastal city of

The administration of United States President Joe Biden has cleared the way for the release of five American citizens detained in Iran by issuing a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer $6bn in frozen Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of sanctions. In

Maria Ressa, a Nobel prize winner and co-founder of the online news site Rappler, has been acquitted of a tax evasion charge in the Philippines, another legal victory in her battle against multiple charges filed during the government of former president Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa, a fierce

Thousands of people are feared dead after a powerful storm triggered devastating flooding in Libya. The leader of the east Libyan government, which is not recognised internationally, said deaths "exceed 2,000". Jalel Harchaoui, a Libya specialist, told the BBC the death

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first-ever summit in 2019. Kim travelled to Vladivostok in his armoured train where the men spent two days enjoying folk dances, feasting on borscht and reindeer dumplings, and toasting the burgeoning

Hundreds of people stood in line for hours outside a blood bank in the central Moroccan city of Marrakech on Monday, some even passing out from the heat, but all of them determined do whatever they can for their country as it reels from the devastating earthquake that struck Friday

President Joe Biden has denied that the US is attempting to stem China's international influence, after signing a new historic deal with Vietnam. More than 50 years since the last American soldier left Vietnam, Mr Biden travelled to Hanoi to sign the agreement that will bring the

Rescuers in Morocco have stepped up efforts to find survivors of Friday’s devastating earthquake, aiming to reach some of the more remote areas of the Atlas Mountains, amid reports some villages have been flattened. The first foreign rescuers flew in to help after the North

At least 43 people were killed in an airstrike on a marketplace in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Sunday, according to a medical group. In a statement, Sudan's Doctors Syndicate said 55 people were also injured in the attack that targeted an open market in Mayo neighborhood in

Police deployed water cannons to disperse thousands of climate activists protesting on a highway in the Netherlands on Saturday, September 9, to demand an end to government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. More than 10,000 people marched along the A12 highway into The Hague,

Brazilian president says Russian leader will be invited to the G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro next year. Brazil's President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva (L) shakes hands with Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as they meet in Moscow May 14, 2010. Brazilian President Luiz

The Maldives appears headed for a run-off vote after the opposition candidate took a surprise lead over President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih but fell short of an outright majority in a hotly contested presidential election. The vote on Saturday is being closely watched by India and China,

At least two people have been killed in renewed clashes among Palestinian factions in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon as a ceasefire agreement agreed earlier was not honoured by the rival sides, state media reported. One person was killed in the fighting inside the Ein el-Hilweh

Defying all doomsday predictions the Group of 20 leaders managed to stitch together a consensus statement on the first of the two-day summit, even as deep divisions were on display with the watered-down stance on the war in Ukraine, experts said. In the lead-up to the G20 summit on

Rescuers searching for survivors dug through the rubble of collapsed houses in remote mountain villages of Morocco on Saturday, as armed forces were pressed into action in the wake of the country’s deadliest earthquake in more than 60 years. Authorities declared three days of