North Korea has fired a pair of short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast, according to South Korea’s military, two days after Pyongyang resumed banned testing activities with an intercontinental ballistic missile launch. South Korea’s military said it

Turkey on Sunday said rescue efforts following last week’s devastating earthquake had ended in all but two provinces, as visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced $100 million in fresh humanitarian aid. The 7.8-magnitude tremor that struck southeastern Turkey and

Authorities in the Brazilian state of São Paulo say at least 36 people have been killed in heavy flooding and landslides, forcing some cities to cancel annual Carnival celebrations. Video showed neighbourhoods under water, flooded motorways and debris left after houses were

A small plane with four people on board has crashed in central Philippines where rescuers were searching for survivors on Sunday, an aviation official said. The Cessna 340 aircraft went missing early Saturday morning shortly after departing for Manila from Bicol International Airport,

Syria's military says five people have died after what it alleged were Israeli missiles hit the capital Damascus and surrounding areas on Sunday. Officials said a building was hit in the central Kafr Sousa neighbourhood, killing four civilians and one soldier. The densely

The US has "formally determined" that Russia had committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, US Vice-President Kamala Harris has said. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Ms Harris accused Russia of "gruesome acts of murder, torture, rape and deportation"

Twelve days after a devastating earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, more than 46,000 people have died and more than 84,000 buildings have either been severely damaged, need urgent demolition, or collapsed, according to officials. As Turkey attempts to manage its worst modern disaster,

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he does not want to see Russia crushed by a defeat in Ukraine. Speaking to French media, Mr Macron urged Western nations to increase military support for Kyiv and said he was prepared for a protracted war. "I want Russia to be defeated

More than 45,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria. The toll is expected to soar with some 264,000 apartments in Turkey destroyed and many still missing in the country's worst modern disaster. Total number of people killed in Turkey has hit

A lone gunman killed six people in a rural Mississippi town on Friday, including his ex-wife, in a "series of shootings," officials said. A suspect is in custody, according to the Tate County Sheriff's Office, and was identified as 52-year-old Richard Dale Crum of

Police in Bulgaria on Friday discovered an abandoned truck containing the bodies of 18 migrants, who appeared to have suffocated to death. The Interior Ministry said that according to initial information, the truck was carrying about 40 migrants and the survivors were taken to nearby

Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) on Friday night cleared the five-story office of Pakistan’s Karachi police chief after nearly a four-hour operation - weeks after a deadly attack in Peshawar’s Police Lines.   At least three militants blew themselves, while two were

Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has suffered more than 30,000 casualties since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February, with about 9,000 of those fighters killed in action, the United States has claimed. The US estimates that 90 percent of Wagner Group fighters killed in

At least 53 people have been killed in an attack in Syria’s central desert province of Homs, state media has reported, blaming the killings on ISIL (ISIS). The bodies of the victims that were taken to the Palmyra state hospital had gunshot wounds to the head, state news agency

Indian tax authorities say they have uncovered irregularities in the BBC's accounting books after searches at the broadcaster's offices in the country. The statement, which does not directly name the BBC, comes after officials carried out a three-day operation at premises in

The death toll from the earthquake rose to nearly 44,000 on Friday, as hopes of finding survivors faded. The number of deaths recorded in Syria has so far reached 5,800, a number that has barely seen any increase in the past days. Turkey's relief agency AFAD stated that the

A Bangladeshi national, who had come to Kolkata for his wife's cancer treatment, was allegedly duped of Rs 10 lakh by a New Town resident. The victim, Md Nizamuddin, a resident of Dhaka, alleged that he had given the money to the accused, Shipan Kumar Basu - who reportedly runs a

The search of BBC offices in India by tax officials has ended after three days. The authorities entered the offices in New Delhi and Mumbai on Tuesday, with staff facing lengthy questioning or told to stay at the office overnight. The BBC said: "We will continue to co-operate

Recovery efforts continue in hard-hit areas of New Zealand on Friday after Cyclone Gabrielle caused chaos, leaving at least seven people dead and displacing 10,000 people in the country’s most damaging storm in decades. The cyclone, which hit New Zealand on Sunday before making

Alarm is growing over the World Food Programme’s (WFP) plan to cut food aid to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh because of a severe shortfall in funding. The WFP, the United Nations food agency, has said it will need to cut rations to the