The U.S. FDA is cracking down on lax testing practices by dozens of makers of healthcare products following hundreds of deaths overseas from contaminated cough syrups, a Reuters review of regulatory alerts found.

Nearly 30,000 ethnic Armenians have fled Nagorno-Karabakh – a quarter of the population of the enclave which Azerbaijan seized last week.

More than 100 people were killed and 150 injured in a fire at a wedding party in Hamdaniya district in Iraq’s Nineveh province that left civil defence searching the charred skeleton of a building for survivors into the early hours of Wednesday.

Donald Trump and his family business were found liable for fraud on Tuesday by a New York judge in state Attorney General Letitia James’ civil lawsuit accusing the former U.S. president of illegally inflating his assets and net worth.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday joined a picket line with striking autoworkers in Michigan, backing their call for a 40% pay raise and telling them they deserve a “lot more” than they are getting.

Ukraine’s special forces said they had killed Moscow’s top admiral in Crimea.

South Korea will host senior diplomats from China and Japan for a rare trilateral meeting.

Anti-Muslim hate speech incidents in India averaged more than one a day in the first half of 2023.

Sea ice that packs the ocean around Antarctica hit record low levels this winter.

President Joe Biden met Pacific island leaders for a second White House summit in just over a year on Monday.

The Philippines said on Monday it executed a “special operation” to remove a floating barrier installed by China at a prime fishing patch in the South China Sea.

Canadian Sikhs staged small protests outside India’s diplomatic missions on Monday.