A United Nations-backed food security report concluded Thursday that more than a year of war in Sudan has pushed parts of North Darfur into famine, including a displaced persons camp that houses more than a half-million people.
Residents of Kastigarh, a sub-district in central Jammu and Kashmir, say they are staying close to their homes following a recent attack by anti-India militants that injured two soldiers who were sheltering in a dilapidated school after a patrol.
In villages and towns across Hungary, adoring crowds gather to hear Peter Magyar speak, their enthusiasm spilling over onto social media where they post selfies taken with the 43-year-old opposition politician.
A widely criticized new law that threatens to publicly discredit thousands of media outlets and civil society groups as "serving" outside powers went into effect in Georgia on August 1, two months after the ruling party swept aside a maelstrom of domestic protest and international warnings that passage endangers further integration with the West.
The fight against impunity must continue in Guinea, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Thursday, welcoming the long-awaited verdict in the trial into the 2009 massacre at a stadium in the capital, Conakry.
Thousands have taken to the streets in Nigerian cities in anti-government protests against the high cost of living in the country, driven by crippling inflation and a devalued currency.
Russia is fully satisfied with the prisoner exchange, a credible source in one of the competent Russian agencies told Sputnik on Thursday.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) stated that eight Russian citizens, who were detained and imprisoned in several NATO countries, have been returned to Russia. The exchange took place at Ankara airport (Turkiye) on August 1, 2024, and also included the repatriation of minor children.
A Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) official set to be posted to Taiwan's representative office in Macao was unable to obtain a visa from the Macao government after refusing to sign an affidavit recognizing Beijing's "One China" principle, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said Thursday.
Nearly 90 junta administrators in western Myanmar abandoned their posts after opponents of military rule warned them not to support the regime, pro-democracy representatives said on Wednesday.
Moldova's Foreign Ministry has declared an employee of the Russian Embassy to Chisinau persona non grata and gave him 48 hours to leave the country. The move comes hours after authorities in Chisinau detained two Moldovan officials following a raid by security forces on parliament premises linked to a spying investigation.
The United States is facing a series of unprecedented threats from foreign intelligence agencies, some of which are increasingly cooperating with each other to gain an advantage, according to a newly approved strategy to blunt the impact of espionage.
North Korea continues to keep its doors shut to international aid workers as the country struggles with massive flooding that destroyed thousands of homes and covered vast farmlands.
The realignment of the United States armed forces in Japan, announced on the heels of the latest U.S.-Japan security talks, will focus on developing warfighting capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region, former U.S. military officials and experts say.
The Biden administration is reportedly working on a set of unilateral restrictions on China's access to artificial intelligence (AI) memory chips and equipment capable of making those products, in the latest hegemonic move to contain China's AI industry in order to maintain its global monopoly.
Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the launch of the redesigned Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry.
The Philippines and the US recently held a joint exercise in the South China Sea aimed at China as the Philippines expressed interest in purchasing US F-16 fighter jets. Experts said on Thursday that the US is tightening its grip on the Philippines after the latter reached a provisional arrangement with China on managing situation in the region.
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