North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles and the second may have failed and blown up, possibly raining debris inland, South Korea’s military said. Monday’s launches came a day after Pyongyang promised “offensive and overwhelming” responses to new military

According to Interior Minister Ali Erlikaya, a gas explosion in a restaurant in western Turkey killed five people and injured more than 50. This was reported by Anadolu, UNN reports. According to the Interior Minister, 57 people were injured in a gas cylinder explosion on Sunday.

France’s far right is in pole position after the first round of parliamentary elections that confirmed their dominance in French politics and brought them to the gates of power. Supporters of Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Rally (RN) cheered as she said the

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has renewed his appeal for more long-range weapons and air defences after a missile attack killed seven people including two children. The Russian attack on the town of Vilniansk, near the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, also injured 31 others,

At least 18 people have been killed and 30 injured in a series of deadly blasts in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, officials say. One of the suspected bombings is reported to have killed six people and injured others at a wedding ceremony on Saturday. The state's

France is voting in a parliamentary election that could make history, with the far right closer to power than it has ever been in modern times. The National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella are well ahead in the polls - three weeks to the day since they won European

North Korea criticised a joint military exercise by South Korea, Japan and the United States held this month, state media said on Sunday, saying such drills show the relationship among the three countries has developed into "the Asian version of NATO". On Thursday, the three

At least 30 people died in protests in Kenya this week sparked by a government drive to substantially raise taxes in the East African country, Human Rights Watch said Saturday. “Kenyan security forces shot directly into crowds of protesters on (Tuesday) June 25, 2024, including

Five soldiers of the Indian Army were killed after their tank met with an accident during a river-crossing exercise near the Line of Actual Control in Leh's Daulat Beg Oldi area in the early hours of Saturday, Indian officials said. A Junior Commissioned Officer, or JCO, is among

With most of the votes counted in Iran, pro-reform presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian comes first but he is immediately followed by principlist candidate Saeed Jalili. The votes show that snap presidential election will go to a second round which will be held next Friday. 

US President Joe Biden has hit back at criticism over his age, telling supporters in a fiery speech that he will win re-election in November after a poor debate performance fuelled concern about his candidacy. "I know I'm not a young man, to state the obvious," he told a

France's lightning-quick election campaign is over, and despite last-ditch appeals not to back the far right, voters appear ready to hand the National Rally party a historic victory in parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal warned it would unleash “impulses of

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the new Israeli ground offensive in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood forced the displacement of “at least 60,000” residents, while Israel’s military operations in the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza resulted in 5,000 people

A herd of Asiatic elephants has forcefully broken through a border gate along the Indo-Bangladesh fence in Dolu, Meghalaya, making their way into Bangladesh.  This event underscores the ongoing conflict between human infrastructure and wildlife movement. The incident occurred

One person died and four others were injured after a portion of the roof at Terminal 1 of the Delhi airport collapsed amid heavy rain early Friday morning. Following the incident, several flights from Terminal 1 were cancelled, and many other services have been shifted to other terminals.

The Turkish president on Thursday reaffirmed Türkiye's commitment to become a member of the European Union, describing it as the country's "strategic goal." “Full membership in the European Union is our strategic goal. It is in our common interest for the

A halting Joe Biden struggled Thursday to allay concerns he is too old for a second term in the White House in a fiery debate with Donald Trump marked by personal insults. A bombastic Trump lashed out at his successor, calling him a failure on the economy and the world stage. Biden

A top US official on Thursday told a Chinese counterpart that Washington’s defense commitments to the Philippines were “ironclad” after a violent clash in the South China Sea. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell “raised serious concerns” about Chinese

The number of people sleeping on the streets of London has hit a record high of nearly 12,000, latest figures showed Thursday, as the impact of the UK's cost-of-living crisis bites. Britain, the world's sixth-biggest economy, saw decades-high inflation in 2023 and a shortage of

Police in the Maldives have arrested a state environment minister, officers said Thursday, with media in the Indian Ocean nation reporting she was accused of performing "black magic" on the president. State Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Energy, Fathimath