A military helicopter crashed in Ghana on Wednesday, killing all eight people on board, including the West African country’s defense and environment ministers and two other top officials, the government said. The crash was one of Ghana’s worst air disasters in more than a

The White House announced Wednesday that it is imposing an additional 25% tariff on India, bringing the total levies against the major United States trading partner to 50%. “I find that the Government of India is currently directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation

At least 68 African refugees and migrants have died and 74 others remain missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, according to the United Nations migration agency. Abdusattor Esoev, head of the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Yemen, told The

At least 46 deaths, including six from starvation or malnutrition, were reported in Gaza over the past 24 hours, local health authorities said on Sunday. The health ministry said that six more Palestinians died of starvation or malnutrition while 40 killed in Israeli gunfire and

A volcano erupted for the first time in 450 years in Russia's eastern Kamchatka region, the nation's emergency authority said Sunday, days after one of the strongest earthquakes on record hit the region. Pictures released by Russian state media show a towering plume of ash

Ukraine said Saturday it hit military targets and a gas pipeline in drone attacks in Russia, where local authorities said three people were killed and two others wounded. Ukraine’s SBU security service said the strikes, carried out Friday night by long-distance drones, hit a

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in "the appropriate regions" in response to remarks from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev about the risk of war between the nuclear-armed adversaries. Security analysts

​​Ukrainian drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed three people, Russian officials said Saturday. Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted or destroyed 112 drones across eight Russian regions and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. A drone attack

An explosion at a fireworks workshop in central Thailand killed at least nine people on Wednesday, local officials said. The blast occurred in Suphan Buri province, about 95 kilometers (60 miles) northwest of Bangkok in the heart of the country’s central rice-growing region. The

Australia’s spy chief has singled out Russia as an “aggressive espionage threat,” saying several Moscow-linked intelligence officers have been caught and expelled in recent years. Intelligence boss Mike Burgess used a speech on Thursday night to warn of the mounting

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least six people including a 6-year-old boy, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday. Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko said at least 52 other people were injured in the attacks, and

France and 14 other Western nations called on countries worldwide to move to recognise a Palestinian state, France’s top diplomat said on Wednesday. The foreign ministers of 15 countries late on Tuesday issued a joint statement following a conference in New York, co-chaired by

US president Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that India will have to pay 25 per cent tariff from August 1. Trump also said that India will have to pay an additional penalty for buying energy and arms from Russia. The 25% tariff rate announced for India is 1% less than the 26% declared

The besieged territory of Gaza is slipping into famine, UN aid agencies warned on Tuesday, as the death toll from Israel’s nearly 22-month war surpassed 60,000. The World Food Programme (WFP), Unicef and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned that time was running out

An American citizen child has been repatriated from a camp in northeast Syria for “unification” with family, the US State Department said Tuesday. The child was described as “unaccompanied” in a State Department statement, which did not identify the camp the

Pakistan and Bangladesh have reiterated their unwavering support for the Palestinian cause during a meeting between Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar and Bangladesh’s Adviser for Foreign Affairs Md. Touhid Hossain. The meeting took

US President Donald Trump has issued a revised ultimatum to Russia, giving President Vladimir Putin 10 to 12 days from Monday to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine. Speaking at a news conference in Scotland, Trump said there was “no reason” to wait any longer, citing the lack

Thailand and Cambodia have reached an agreement on an "immediate and unconditional ceasefire" following five days of deadly border clashes that have killed at least 33 people and displaced tens of thousands. “This is a vital first step towards de-escalation and the

At least 30 people have died in Beijing amid relentless rainfall and widespread flooding that continues to wreak havoc across northern China. Authorities have evacuated more than 80,000 residents from affected areas in the capital, as forecasters warn the heavy rains are likely to

A police officer is among four people killed in a shooting incident at an office building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The suspected gunman, identified as 27-year-old Shane Tamura, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said. A significant police