International

Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha yesterday announced his retirement from politics, nine years after he took power in a military coup, and promised to stay in charge only temporarily. His announcement was widely expected after…

President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday secured Turkey's crucial backing for Ukraine's Nato aspirations after winning a US pledge for cluster munitions. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Ukrainian counterpart on Friday…

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen yesterday called for market reforms in China and criticized the world's second-largest economy for its recent tough actions against US companies and new export controls on some critical minerals.…

Israel's army yesterday declared the end of a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank that killed 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier over the previous two days. The raid, involving hundreds of forces, drone…

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is still in Russia, Belarus's president said today, despite a deal with the Kremlin for him to move to Belarus following his failed insurrection last month. "As far as Prigozhin is concerned, he is in…

Rioting across France was less intense overnight, the interior ministry said yesterday, as tens of thousands of police were deployed following the funeral of a teenager of North African descent whose shooting by police has sparked…

Israeli forces hit the city of Jenin with drone strikes yesterday during one of the biggest West Bank incursions in twenty years, killing at least eight people and involving hundreds of troops and gun battles that lasted into the afternoon.…

US President Joe Biden said today that "pariah" Vladimir Putin is "losing" the war in Ukraine, but it is too early to tell whether the Russian president has been weakened by the mercenary Wagner group's aborted rebellion. Asked by…

The Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that the British government's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, dealing a setback to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's campaign to stop migrants crossing the Channel in small boats.…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday repeated his country's call for dialogue and diplomacy to resolve the war in Ukraine in a telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, an Indian statement said. India holds the…