Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in the early hours yesterday, killing at least 21 people and damaging around 130 buildings in one of the biggest attacks of the war.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday formally apologised for the forced adoption of an estimated 185,000 babies born to unmarried mothers in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976, calling it “a stain on our history”.

The Trump administration will intensify its fight against so-called birth tourism, the US attorney general said Wednesday, a day after a Supreme Court ruling upholding birthright citizenship.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused more than two million military casualties, with Moscow’s forces bearing the brunt of the losses, according to a study published Wednesday by a US think tank.

President Donald Trump wants a peace deal to end the "senseless killing" in Ukraine, a US official said Thursday after a massive Russian barrage on Kyiv killed at least 21 people

The World Health Organization on Thursday declared an end to the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship which sparked international alarm, after the last person left quarantine

Latin America accounted for 67 percent of the submissions, with Colombia alone representing 25.9 percent of the total

Syrian state TV says a bomb had been planted at the cafe

The group of 35 monks and five lay followers were walking along a roadside in the northeastern Mukdahan province during a pilgrimage when the incident occurred

Myanmar's deposed leader is under house arrest in the capital Naypyidaw, according to her captors, but exactly where is hard to say in a city experts describe as purpose-built to guard its closed-ranks rulers' secrets

The quake was at a depth of 216.7 km (134.65 miles), USGS said.

Thousands more were injured and left homeless by the temblors, Rodriguez said in an address on state television.

Sources familiar with the discussions said negotiators for the two countries spent two days in Doha

A senior Justice Department official, Colin McDonald, told employees in a memo that people who come to the United States under "false pretenses" to give birth and secure citizenship for their child could be criminally charged under laws barring visa fraud, money laundering, identity theft and wire fraud.

China’s ruling Communist Party must keep pace with changing circumstances while safeguarding the advances it has made, President Xi Jinping said yesterday during celebrations for its 105th founding anniversary.

The US and Iran held technical talks in Doha yesterday as they seek to agree on the flow of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and secure a lasting ceasefire, a source with direct knowledge of the talks and an Iranian official said.

One year after lifting its long-standing two-child limit, Vietnam is offering incentives for people to have more babies as the communist country risks getting old before it gets rich.

The world’s oceans just experienced their hottest June on record and could set fresh highs in the months ahead as El Nino and climate change drive temperatures even higher, scientists said yesterday.

Tens of thousands of people desperately sought food and shelter in Venezuela on Tuesday after the two earthquakes killed nearly 2,000, but rescue teams managed to pull a 3-year-old boy alive from the rubble six days after the shocks.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Tuesday compared the capabilities of the most advanced artificial intelligence models to nuclear weapons in a tacit defense of the Trump administration’s recent hard line on controlling the release of the most powerful AI technology.