China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that it was not aware of North Korean troops being in Russia, after the United States said it had seen evidence that North Korea had sent 3,000 troops to Russia for possible deployment in Ukraine. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on...

Democrat Kamala Harris got a potential boost Tuesday after a pro-Palestinian group threatening to draw votes from her in swing state Michigan came out strongly against her Republican opponent Donald Trump. The Uncommitted movement stopped short of explicitly endorsing Harris, but warned in...

With Israel poised to attack Iran, having already blindsided friends and foes alike with its blitz against Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, all the talk is of an inexorable slide towards a new, pan-Middle Eastern war. Yet brakes remain to halt a regional fall into a wider conflagration...

More than 1,000 people have died and at least 740,000 displaced as floods wreak havoc across West and Central Africa, affecting over 5 million people in 16 countries, the UN said on Thursday. Most parts of the central and west African region as well as the Sahel have been experiencing severe...