Thailand has received 260 human trafficking victims, more than half of them Ethiopians, from Myanmar, its army said.

Hamas signalled on Thursday that a crisis threatening to unravel an already fragile ceasefire in Gaza could be avoided even after trading accusations with Israel this week of ceasefire breaches.

U.S. President Donald Trump said that Ukraine would be involved in peace talks with Russia.

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te will hold a meeting of the National Security Council to discuss possible new U.S. tariffs.

President Donald Trump has vowed to destroy Mexican cartels and end the U.S. fentanyl epidemic.

Mass firings at multiple U.S. government agencies have begun as President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk accelerate their purge of America’s federal bureaucracy.

An Afghan asylum seeker drove at a group of people in Munich, injuring at least 28

Belarus has released three people, including an American and a journalist, who had been detained for more than three years, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her government tried to cling on to power using systematic, deadly violence against protesters that could amount to “crimes against humanity”.

Pete Hegseth, the new US defence secretary, says it is “unrealistic” to expect Ukraine to return to its pre-2014 borders, when Russia first captured Crimea and Moscow-backed proxies pushed into eastern Ukraine.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said a return to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders was unrealistic and the Trump administration does not see NATO membership for Kyiv as part of a solution to the war triggered by Russia’s invasion.

Salman Rushdie spoke calmly and with occasional dry humor as he testified on Tuesday against the man accused of trying to murder him, the first time the two have been in the same place since the 2022 knife attack on the novelist onstage at a New York arts institute.