The leader of the world's most populous nation will also receive all the pomp of a state dinner at the White House on Thursday -- only Biden's third since his inauguration. Hailed by New Delhi as a "historic" chance to "expand and consolidate" ties, the

A massive search and rescue operation is under way in the mid Atlantic after a tourist submarine went missing during a dive to Titanic's wreck on Sunday. Contact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive, the US Coast Guard said. Tour firm OceanGate

China and the United States have agreed to try and stabilise relations to avoid veering into conflict, but did not announce any major breakthroughs during a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing. A roughly 30-minute meeting with Xi on Monday was Blinken’s final

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Israel to immediately “cease all settlement activities” in occupied Palestinian territory, describing Israel’s plans to advance the building of Israeli settlements as driving “tensions and

The authorities of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have decided to restore diplomatic relations, and embassies and consulates of the two states will start working on Monday, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said. "On the basis of an agreement and aspiration of both states towards

Australia’s parliament has passed legislation to pave the way for a historic referendum on Aboriginal rights, with voters set to decide if the Indigenous population gets a dedicated “voice” in national policymaking. In a final vote in the Senate, the upper house, 52

Israel’s hardline coalition government has approved plans for thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank and given the far-right finance minister sweeping powers to expedite the construction of illegal settlements, bypassing measures that have been in place for 27

United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has met China’s top diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing as the two countries take steps to repair their strained relationship. The duo posed for a photo on Monday at Beijing’s Diaoyutai State Guesthouse before heading into diplomatic

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Beijing for two days of meetings with Chinese officials. The trip marks the first visit by an American diplomat to China in almost five years. US officials say the main goal of the talks is to stabilise a relationship that has

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – who is in Russia as part of a peace-seeking delegation – told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the war in Ukraine must stop. Ramaphosa laid out the 10 points of the African peace initiative that is seeking agreement on a

Warplanes struck residential districts of the capital on Saturday, killing 17 civilians, including five children, health officials said. The airstrike, the deadliest in the clashes in urban areas of Khartoum and elsewhere in Sudan, came a day after a top army general threatened to step

Three people, including two military officials, were killed on Saturday when their light aircraft crashed in a hilly region in the south of France, the army and regional prosecutor said. An investigation has been opened to determine the cause of the crash close to the village of

As many as 13 people were killed and another 25 injured when a Lahore-bound passenger bus turned turtle in the salt range on Lahore- Islamabad Motorway on Saturday. As per the Police, the bus overturned as the driver lost control after the failure of brakes on a sharp turn on the

United Nations agencies have called for “urgent and decisive action” to be taken by the Europe Union to prevent further deaths in the Mediterranean following the presumed drowning of hundreds of people this week off the coast of Greece. The International Organization for

Mali's foreign minister has called on the UN to withdraw its peacekeeping force from his country "without delay". Abdoulaye Diop accused the force, Minusma, of having "become a part of the problem in fuelling intercommunal tensions". He was addressing the UN

Russia has already stationed a first batch of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Vladimir Putin says. Russia's president told a forum they would only be used if Russia's territory or state was threatened. The US government says there is no indication the Kremlin plans to

At least 25 people have been killed at a school in western Uganda by rebels linked to the Islamic State group. A further eight people remain in a critical condition after the attack on Lhubiriha secondary school in Mpondwe. Police say the attack on Friday was carried out by the

Lawmakers in Japan on Friday changed legislation to raise the age of consent from 13 — the lowest among developed nations — to 16. Under the stricter sex crime laws, lawmakers also broadened the definition of rape from "forcible sexual intercourse" to

The US Senate has confirmed the former American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attorney Nusrat Jahan Choudhury as the first Muslim woman to serve as a federal judge on Thursday. Choudhury, 46, is also the first Bangladeshi American to serve in this lifetime position. She will serve as a

A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific island nation of Tonga on Friday, but no tsunami warning was issued, US monitoring agencies said. The earthquake struck shortly after 7:00 am (1800 GMT Thursday) at a depth of 167 kilometers (103 miles) some 290 kilometers