Spanish rescuers plunged into inundated garages to find bodies on Monday, a day after furious crowds heckled and hurled mud at the king and the prime minister following devastating floods.
Iran on Monday executed a member of the country’s Jewish minority who had been convicted of murder, an NGO said, at a time of rising tensions with Israel. Arvin Ghahremani
Indian-run Kashmir’s chief minister on Sunday condemned a ‘deeply disturbing’ grenade attack on a busy market in the main city of Srinagar, which police and media reported left several wounded.
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte strongly defended his deadly drug war as he testified on Monday at a senate probe of the crackdown. Police said the campaign left more than
Japan’s prime minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed Monday to stay in office despite his gamble of snap elections backfiring, with his party’s ruling coalition falling short of a majority for the
The 56-nation Commonwealth announced Ghana’s foreign minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey as the new secretary general of the organisation at a rancorous summit in Samoa on Saturday. Botchwey was one of
Israel bombed military targets in Iran on Saturday, killing at least two soldiers, fulfilling a vow to avenge a missile barrage and stirring fears of a full-scale Middle East war.
Gaza’s health ministry said on Friday hundreds of patients and staff were detained in north Gaza’s last functioning hospital, after the Israeli army said it was on the ground in
Lebanon accused Israel of targeting journalists in a ‘deliberate’ attack that killed three media workers in the country’s south on Friday, calling the incident a ‘war crime’. Asked by AFP
Israel announced the launch of ‘precise strikes’ on military targets in Iran on Saturday, in retaliation for attacks against it, as Iranian state media reported several explosions around the capital.