Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas urged the militant group Hamas on Wednesday to release the hostages still being held in Gaza, calling it the main factor fuelling...
President Ferdinand Marcos on Wednesday declared four days of national mourning in the Philippines, Asia’s Catholic bastion, over the death of Pope Francis. The Philippine flag...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Wednesday for an “immediate, full, and unconditional ceasefire”, hours after a Russian drone strike on a bus killed nine and as...
Israel’s military said on Wednesday that they likely intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, with the Iran-backed Huthi rebels saying they had launched the attack and...
Thailand will conduct tests of a cellphone disaster alert system, senior officials said on Wednesday, after criticism that no alarm was sent after last month’s deadly...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 hit the Marmara Sea near the western outskirts of Istanbul on Wednesday, officials said, with the impact felt across...
On Tuesday, the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, visited Benue State to express condolences to the government and citizens in the wake of a recent...
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has ordered an urgent investigation into reports of extortion allegedly involving officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps...
The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has directed the immediate withdrawal of mobile police officers assigned to VIPs. In a statement on Tuesday, the spokesman...
Pope Francis’s coffin began its transfer to St Peter’s Basilica Wednesday for three days of lying in state, with thousands of well-wishers gathering to pay their...