NIGER and Burkina Faso announced their withdrawal from the G5 military bloc of west African states today.

THE International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said today his office will intensify efforts to investigate war crimes in occupied Palestine.

“ABANDON Biden, ceasefire now!” read a banner at a conference of United States Muslim community leaders in suburban Detroit at the weekend.

QUESTIONS are amplifying over why Israel ignored warnings of Hamas’s deadly October 7 raid that killed 1,200 people, with the New York Times report

ISRAEL’S resumed bombing of Gaza cast a shadow over Cop28 talks in Dubai toay, with multiple leaders condemning the war on Palestine.

CHINA: The Taliban’s first ambassador to a foreign country arrived in Beijing today.

RUSSIA sees no reason to “review its goals” in Ukraine and will continue its war, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said today on the fringes of the O

THE Philippines inaugurated a new coastguard monitoring base in the disputed Spratly Islands today, raising tensions with China.

ARGENTINA will not join the Brics group of developing countries, its prospective foreign minister said on Thursday.