Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising inflation have pushed some four million children into poverty across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to the United Nations children agency. “Children are bearing the heaviest burden of the economic crisis caused by the war

At least five explosions have been heard in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv - with a presidential adviser blaming "kamizake drones" sent by Russia. "It shows their desperation," said Andriy Yermak, head of Ukrainian President Zelensky's office. Mayor Vitalii

China’s Communist Party has kicked off its twice-in-a-decade Congress, with President Xi Jinping calling for faster military growth, defending Beijing’s “zero-COVID” approach, and refusing to rule out the use of force to take Taiwan. The week-long meeting, which

At least 20 people died and 15 others were injured when a bus overturned on the Pan-American Highway in southwestern Colombia. The bus was travelling between the port city of Tumaco, in the southwestern corner of Colombia, and Cali, 320km (200 miles) to the northeast, when the incident

A huge fire has broken out amid clashes at Tehran’s Evin prison, where many of Iran’s political and dual-national detainees are held, according to officials and witnesses. State news agency IRNA said eight people were injured in Saturday’s unrest, which erupted after

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said a staggering three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet; the war in Ukraine has triggered surging food, fertilizer, and energy prices; and the most vulnerable are being battered by the pandemic, climate crisis, environmental degradation,

Pakistan on Saturday summoned the US ambassador for an explanation after President Joe Biden described the South Asian country as “one of the most dangerous nations in the world” and questioned its nuclear weapons safety protocols.   Biden made the apparently

Gunmen have killed 11 people in an attack at a Russian military training ground on Saturday. During a firearms training session, two men opened fire on a group who had volunteered to fight in Ukraine, state-owned news agency Ria reported. The attackers were from a former Soviet

The United States will send Ukraine an additional $725m package of weapons and other military assistance, the White House has said, as Washington added to a flurry of aid announcements from European allies this week amid Russia’s renewed missile attacks on Kyiv and other targets.

At least 28 people have died and dozens remain trapped underground after an explosion in a coal mine in northern Turkey's Bartin province. Around 110 people were in the mine at the time of the blast on Friday, almost half of them at over 300 metres deep. Turkey's health

China’s internet censors have removed virtually all references to reports of a rare protest in Beijing that involved banners denouncing President Xi Jinping and the country’s COVID-19 policies. Beijing was on high alert on Friday against any disruption to a landmark Chinese

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his government and that of Russia have instructed their respective energy authorities to immediately begin technical studies on a Russian proposal that would turn Turkey into a gas hub for Europe. Russian President Vladimir Putin this week

Debt-laden Sri Lanka has been buying up large amounts of discounted Russian oil amid an economic meltdown that sent the country into default for the first time in May. Since March, the Asian country has been buying so much Russian oil that those barrels account for all its imports,

A shooting Thursday in North Carolina's capital Raleigh left at least five people dead, including an off-duty police officer, officials in the southeast US city said, adding that a suspect had been captured. Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said the shooting occurred near the Neuse

North Korea early on October 14 launched a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters and flew warplanes near the border with South Korea, further raising animosities triggered by the North’s recent barrage of weapons tests. South Korea’s military also said it

The Supreme Court Thursday delivered a split verdict in the Karnataka hijab ban case with one of the judges upholding the March 15 high court order validating the ban and the other setting aside the HC ruling and calling wearing of the apparel a “matter of…choice”.

Ukraine's Nato-led allies have announced deliveries of advanced air defence weapons to Kyiv, after a spate of Russian missile strikes. The weaponry promised by the UK, Canada, France and the Netherlands includes missiles and radars. The US earlier made a similar pledge. One

The world’s wildlife populations have suffered a “devastating” decline in the past 50 years as humans have cleared forests and polluted the air, land and sea, according to World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) latest Living Planet Report. The landmark report (PDF),

Gunshots were fired as Iranian security forces confronted protests Wednesday over Mahsa Amini’s death in a crackdown that rights groups say has already cost at least 108 lives with many children among the dead. The chants of protesters were interrupted by the crack of gunfire in

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to condemn Russia’s “attempted illegal annexation” of four partially occupied regions in Ukraine and urged countries not to recognise the move. In Wednesday’s vote, three-quarters of the 193-member General Assembly