BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Myanmar military jet has crashed in the east of the country where fighting is ongoing, the junta said on Sunday, with anti-coup fighters claiming they had shot it down. The country has been riven by conflict since the 2021 military coup, with multiple armed ethnic groups...
MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia on Sunday accused Ukraine of carrying out a series of attacks in the border regions of Bryansk and Belgorod, damaging five train carriages and causing one injury. Moscow said it would open an investigation into a Ukrainian strike which injured a civilian in a village on the...
DEHRADUN, India -- At least 40 construction workers were trapped Sunday after the road tunnel they were building collapsed in northern India, with rescuers scrambling to reach them beneath piles of debris. The collapse occurred early Sunday morning in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand when a group...
PARIS, France -- Tens of thousands are expected to attend a march against anti-Semitism in Paris on Sunday amid bickering by political parties over who should take part and a surge in anti-Semitic incidents across France. Members of the Jewish community hold placards reading "Don't touch to the Vel...
DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Hundreds of Bangladeshi garment workers rallied Sunday demanding fair wages after dismissing a pay offer as too small, as the death toll from the violent protests that erupted last month rose to four. Bangladesh has been rocked by the worst labour unrest in a decade with tens...
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday called for pressure on the United States to stop Israel's offensive in Gaza, but said there would be no agreement unless Washington accepted the enclave as Palestinian land. Erdogan returned from a summit on Saturday of Arab and...
HANOI, Vietnam -- Two South Koreans were among 18 people sentenced to death on drug smuggling and trafficking charges in Vietnam, state media said. This photo released by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) on November 12, 2023 shows defendants (L, in blue) standing during their trial for drug...
LONDON, United Kingdom -- UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday condemned far-right protesters and Hamas sympathisers, as hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinian supporters marched through London calling for a ceasefire in Israel's war in Gaza. Nearly 2,000 police were out in force to keep...
TEL AVIV, Israel -- The Israeli military said Saturday it will aid the evacuation of babies from Gaza's largest hospital, amid intense fighting around the facility between soldiers and Palestinian militants. "The staff of the Al-Shifa hospital has requested that tomorrow, we will help the babies in...
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Turkish women remembering the disappearance of relatives in the 1980s and 1990s held a vigil in Istanbul on Saturday without police interference for the first time in five years. Known as the "Saturday Mothers" ("Cumartesi Anneleri" in Turkish), they have met on Saturdays since...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Arab and Muslim leaders on Saturday condemned Israeli forces' "barbaric" actions in Gaza but declined to approve punitive economic and political steps against the country over its war against Hamas. TOPSHOT - A handout picture taken and released on November 11, 2023 by...
KYIV, Ukraine -- A missile targeted Kyiv on Saturday without causing casualties but ending nearly two months of relative calm in the Ukrainian capital, while frontline regions fended off waves of drone attacks overnight. Ukrainian officials also hailed the anniversary of the recapture of Kherson...
