Four soldiers have been killed and more than 60 other people injured in a drone strike targeting an army base in northern Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said. The IDF added seven soldiers had been severely injured in the attack on a base "adjacent to Binyamina" -

Indian politician Baba Siddique was shot dead in Mumbai on Saturday. The 66-year-old lawmaker was formerly a minister in the western state of Maharashtra and was known for his lavish parties. Siddique was shot several times in the chest outside his son's office, local media

The prestigious Bayeux War Correspondents' Awards on Saturday honoured reporters from Agence France-Presse, the BBC and others documenting conflict and strife around the world. AFP photographer Mahmud Hams won the top prize for photos including his harrowing image of a woman crying

A UN peacekeeper has been wounded in southern Lebanon after being hit by gunfire, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) has said, the fifth member of the multinational force to be injured in recent days. In a statement on Saturday, Unifil said the peacekeeper was injured at its

Kamala Harris has released her medical records, which concluded she is in "excellent health" and fit for the presidency. Following the disclosure, the Democratic Party's nominee to be the next US president accused Donald Trump of a lack of transparency over not releasing

Poland is set to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as part of a broader strategy aimed at reducing irregular migration, driven by escalating tensions with Belarus. The Polish government accuses Belarus of facilitating the movement of migrants across their shared border.

Conflicts raging around the world, including in Gaza, are heightening the possibility of a nuclear war, the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize warned, renewing calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Nihon Hidankyo, the grassroots group of Japanese atomic bomb survivors,

Tribal clashes killed at least 11 people in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday and injured eight, including women and children, a local official said. Tensions rose in Kurram district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, after two people were critically injured in a shooting incident between

The United States has imposed sanctions on companies and vessels that are allegedly engaged in trading and transporting Iranian oil, in order to punish Tehran for its recent missile attack on military sites in Israel. The US Treasury and State Department announced the sanctions on

Israeli attacks and injury of UNIFIL peacekeepers in southern Lebanon over the past two days have been condemned as “unjustifiable” by France, Italy, Spain and other countries. At least 22 people were killed in an Israeli strike on the Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza

US President Joe Biden has said he is "absolutely, positively" urging Israel to stop firing at UN peacekeepers during its conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon, following two incidents in 48 hours. On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops were responsible for

At least 12 coaches of Bagmati Express, a superfast train from Mysuru to Darbhanga in Bihar, derailed after colliding with a stationary goods train at Kavaraipettai, around 42 km from Chennai, Friday evening. No casualties were reported as per railway officials. Seven to eight

Russia said Friday its forces had captured the frontline villages of Zhelanne Druge and Ostrivske in east Ukraine, the latest in a string of territorial gains for Moscow. “The settlements of Zhelannoye Vtoroye and Ostrovskoye were liberated,” the Russian defense ministry

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo of survivors of the World War II atomic bombings. “This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for

Germany will supply more weapons to Israel soon, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday, after a significant drop in deliveries this year prompted opposition accusations that Berlin deliberately delayed the exports. “We have not decided not to supply weapons. We have supplied

At least 22 people have been killed and 117 others wounded in Israeli air strikes on two densely-populated areas of central Beirut. The air raids in the centre of the Lebanese capital apparently targeted two residential buildings in separate neighbourhoods simultaneously, that the

At least four people were confirmed killed as a result of two tornadoes triggered by Hurricane Milton on the east coast of the US state of Florida, local authorities said Thursday. In a statement on its website, St. Lucie County confirmed "four fatalities as a result of these

After three days of Nobel prizes honouring work in the sciences, the Literature award has been announced by the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy. South Korean author Han Kang has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts

US Vice President Kamala Harris has pulled in more than $1bn in fundraising since becoming her party’s presidential nominee in July, according to US media reports. While the Harris campaign has yet to disclose the exact total, several sources familiar with the figures, cited by

Bolivia has formally joined South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), according to the court in The Hague. The South American nation filed an application on Tuesday to intervene in the case, which accuses Israel of perpetrating