Iceland has declared a state of emergency after a series of earthquakes raised fears of a volcanic eruption. Authorities have ordered overnight thousands living in the southwestern town of Grindavík to evacuate as a precaution. The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) said

Staff inside Gaza's largest hospital have said patients and refugees are trapped in horrific conditions as heavy fighting rages in nearby streets. A surgeon at Al-Shifa in Gaza City told the BBC that the hospital had run out of water, food and electricity. Israel said it had

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for a summit on Gaza, state-affiliated media reported, his first visit since the two countries agreed to restore ties in March. The emergency meeting of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation

A child is killed on average every 10 minutes in the Gaza Strip, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the United Nations Security Council on Friday, warning: "Nowhere and no one is safe." He said that half of Gaza's 36 hospitals and

Israel’s military has closed in on the front gates of Gaza’s biggest hospital, where thousands of injured and displaced people are trapped amid intensive Israeli bombardment. Israeli forces had fully encircled the al-Shifa Hospital as of early on Saturday morning,

Israel must stop killing babies and women in Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron has told the BBC. In an exclusive interview at the Élysée Palace, he said there was "no justification" for the bombing, saying a ceasefire would benefit Israel. While

Iran’s foreign minister has reiterated that the continuation of Israel’s retaliatory offensive against Hamas would inevitably lead to an expansion of the conflict. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the comment in a telephone conversation with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh

Top cabinet officials of India and the United States held talks on Friday, stressing the need to further strengthen their friendship to be able to deal with urgent global, geopolitical challenges. The so-called annual “2+2 Dialogue” between US Secretary of State Antony

Fighting has raged for two weeks across northern Shan state near the Chinese border, in what analysts say poses the biggest military challenge to the junta since it seized power in 2021. The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA)

Gaza officials have said Israel launched air strikes on or near at least three hospitals on Friday, further stressing the Palestinian enclave’s precarious health system as it struggles to cope with thousands of people wounded or displaced in Israel’s offensive on Gaza.

Israel’s military is performing “exceptionally well” in its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday, stressing Israel does not plan to reoccupy the Palestinian territory. “I think the Israeli army is performing

Members of the Myanmar military take part in a parade to mark the country's 78th Armed Forces Day in Naypyidaw on March 27, 2023. In a matter of days the military government in Myanmar has lost control of much of its border with China. A co-ordinated attack by three ethnic

Hundreds of staffers at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have signed a letter calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, as a growing number of government employees voice dissent against US support for Israel’s military offensive there.

The U.S. carried out an airstrike on a weapons warehouse in eastern Syria used by Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for what has been a growing number of attacks on bases housing U.S. troops in the region for the past several weeks, the Pentagon said. In Wednesday's strike,

Dozens of Palestinians were killed in intense Israeli bombardments overnight in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north and Sabra in western Gaza. Thousands of Palestinians are walking miles to flee the fighting and Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza, as Israel says it is tightening

Malaysia's leader Anwar Ibrahim has said his nation will maintain ties with Hamas and will "not punish" the group. Malaysians should "unanimously back" the Palestinian cause, the prime minister told parliament on Tuesday. Mr Anwar was responding to a proposal

A series of drone strikes around the town of Kidal in northern Mali have killed at least 14 people in the rebel stronghold, the town's mayor said Tuesday. Kidal Mayor Arbakane Ag Abzayack told The Associated Press that the town's deputy mayor and a local councillor were among

The death toll has risen to 25 from an attack on a village in Cameroon's southwest region, the government said on Tuesday. More than 20 people died when gunmen raided the village of Egbekaw, a neighborhood in the town of Mamfe in southwest Cameroon at around 3 a.m. local time

The world is set to have been hotter in 2023 than in any other year on record, scientists have declared, before a landmark climate summit this month. “We can say with near certainty that 2023 will be the warmest year on record, and is currently 1.43C above the pre-industrial

Hundreds of US Jewish activists have peacefully occupied New York’s Statue of Liberty to demand an end to Israel’s “genocidal bombardment” of civilians in Gaza and a ceasefire. Dressed in black T-shirts emblazoned with the slogans “Jews demand ceasefire