Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he hopes to announce the release of hostages being held in Gaza ’’in the coming days’’.

Pakistan-administered Kashmir, or AJK, is undergoing one of its most serious crises in recent times. A shutter-down and wheel-jam strike, led by the Jammu and Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), has paralyzed daily life across the region.

China’s plan to deploy a new hypersonic ballistic missile at a People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) base near Taiwan likely targets U.S. air bases and ships in the Western Pacific, but it will also present new threats to the island count

Japan’s ruling conservative party has elected Sanae Takaichi as its new leader, positioning the 64-year-old to be Japan’s first female prime minister.

India will not only attract $100 billion committed investments from the four-nation EFTA bloc under a trade agreement, but also look at an additional $150 billion, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday. He said that huge oppor

A Tunisian man has been sentenced to death on charges of insulting the president and assaulting state security through posts on social media, the head of the Tunisian League for Human Rights and his lawyer said on Friday.

A fire broke out at Chevron’s El Segundo refinery, one of the largest on the U.S. west coast, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press office said on Thursday, with a county official adding that the flames had been confined to one area.

Germany’s Munich airport has cancelled more than a dozen flights after drones were seen close to its airspace.

TikTok’s algorithm recommends pornography and highly sexualised content to children’s accounts, according to a new report by a human rights campaign group.

Jammu and Kashmir is stepping into a new era of growth and development, leaving behind years of conflict and underdevelopment. Once known mainly for unrest, the Union Territory is now being seen as one of India’s fastest-growing regions, with its e

At the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, several Nordic countries joined international calls urging China to address human rights violations in East Turkestan/Xinjiang , Tibet and Hong Kong.

Pakistan’s turn to transnational repression has intensified under Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir because of the absolute power he has amassed. In the last three years, since Munir became army chief, the state’s coercive arm has extended well beyon

At least two people were killed after an assailant drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard near a synagogue in England on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, British police said. Greater Manchester Police said the su

MPs have demanded that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) reveal why charges against two men accused of spying for China were dropped.

Mass layoffs of US federal workers will begin within two days, the White House says, as lawmakers trade blame over the first government shutdown in almost seven years.

US President Donald Trump has said he wants to use American cities as ’’training grounds’’ for the military.

The US government shut down on Wednesday, after congressional Democrats refused to support a Republican plan to extend funding for federal departments unless they won a series of concessions centered on healthcare.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday welcomed US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a comprehensive plan to end Gaza conflict.

A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines late Tuesday, killing people at a sports arena and raising fears of considerable destruction.

A Chinese national has been convicted of playing a key role in what is believed to be the single largest cryptocurrency seizure in the world, worth more than £5bn ($6.7bn).

“Sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” Donald Trump once quipped, dismissing worries about the collateral damage of his tariffs. Eight months into his second presidency, America is gulping down the medicine in heavy doses: sweepi

Madagascar’s president has said he will dissolve his government, following days of youth-led protests over longstanding water and power cuts.

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has imposed a nationwide shutdown of telecommunications, weeks after it began severing fibre-optic internet connections to prevent what it calls immorality.

Pakistan has decided to close 16 Afghan refugee camps in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, affecting over 90,000 refugees amid ongoing security concerns and humanitarian debates.

China’s state-run media report that a court in the country has sentenced a former agriculture and rural affairs minister to death with a two-year reprieve for receiving massive bribes.

An Argentinian man showed up to his own funeral, leaving mourners bewildered as to whose body they were burying.

At least four people have been killed and eight others injured after a gunman drove a vehicle into a Michigan church, opened fire and set the building ablaze, police say.

The India-European Free Trade Association’s (EFTA) Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) will officially become operational on October 1, with the four-nation bloc comprising Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

On September 22, 2025, Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration (CGA) made headlines with a chilling revelation: a Taiwan-flagged fishing vessel, YAMA68, was intercepted off the coast of Pingtung County carrying a staggering 718 kilograms of narcotics.

Goldman Sachs’ September list of top stock picks looks less like a vote of confidence in American dynamism than like insurance against its fragility.