Afghan Taliban head and Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has urged officials to avoid discussing ‘unnecessary and futile matters’ amid speculation about differences within the Taliban leadership. In a statement issued by Afghan Taliban Deputy Spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat on behalf of مزید پڑھیں
Congressional Democrats released 19 new images from the estate of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein including photos of now-President Donald Trump, as the deadline for an extensive release of documents related to the disgraced financier nears. Trump is مزید پڑھیں
Three would-be migrants died and several others had to be rescued, along with a suspected trafficker, after a boat capsized on a river on the Croatia-Bosnia border, police said. Police received a report in the early hours that a boat مزید پڑھیں
Two four-storey buildings collapsed in the Moroccan city of Fez, killing at least 19 people, according to a provisional toll reported by the country’s official news agency. “Sixteen other people were wounded, with varying degrees of severity,” the Maghreb Arabe مزید پڑھیں
The Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) reported a 7.6 magnitude earthquake off the coast of its eastern Aomori prefecture. The JMA reported that the epicentre of the quake was registered off the coast of Aomori at a depth of 80 kilometres مزید پڑھیں
The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of Nato’s conventional defence capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week, a tight deadline that struck some European officials as unrealistic. The مزید پڑھیں
Russian President Vladimir Putin was due in India for a two-day visit aimed at deepening defence ties, as New Delhi faces heavy US pressure to stop buying oil from Moscow. Putin, on his first visit to India since the Ukraine مزید پڑھیں
The toll in deadly flooding and landslides across parts of Asia climbed past 1,100 on Monday as hardest-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel to help survivors. Separate weather systems brought torrential, extended rainfall to the entire island of مزید پڑھیں
Thousands of trade union workers across India protested against the government’s rollout of new labour codes, saying they would lead to corporate exploitation and erode their hard-won rights. The world’s fifth-largest economy last week implemented long-awaited labour laws that will مزید پڑھیں
A light truck crashed into a market in South Korea ploughing 150 metres (164 yards) along a passageway lined with stalls before coming to a halt, killing two people and injuring 18, according to emergency officials and media reports. The مزید پڑھیں