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US first lady Jill Biden has made an unannounced visit to western Ukraine, holding a surprise meeting with her Ukrainian counterpart Olena Zelensky. Meanwhile, Ukrainian media has reported that Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau also made an unannounced visit to the country. Mrs. Biden travelled in secret for security, as …

The Philippine police and military said on Sunday they were on high alert as last-minute preparations continued for the country’s general election, even as the overall situation remained “relatively peaceful.”

Morocco foiled 63,121 illegal immigration attempts in 2021, the interior ministry said in a report published on Saturday.

The Zionist regime’s local media have said that the perpetrators behind the recent martyrdom-seeking operation in Elad city in the occupied Palestinian lands have been arrested.

Condemning the terrorist attack on Egypt’s the Sinai Peninsula, Hezbollah expressed sympathy for the country’s army.

According to the local news sources, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz was admitted to a hospital on Saturday in Jeddah to undergo medical tests.

The ISIL terrorist group claimed responsibility for a missile attack on Tajikistan from Afghanistan on Saturday.

News sources reported that North Korea fired a ballistic missile, likely from a submarine, off the port city of Sinpo along the country’s eastern coast.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia will come out victorious in Ukraine as it won World War II in 1945.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says despite the devastation done to Syria by the years-long war, the country is now looked upon as a major power.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that are causing anger at home and abroad. A decree from the group’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, said that if a …

One officer and ten Egyptian soldiers were killed after “foiling a terrorist attack” on a water-lifting station east of the Suez Canal, an army spokesman said on Saturday. The security personnel were killed after clashing with a group of militants who attacked the station, which also resulted in five others …

The patient, who is believed to have contracted the infection on a trip to Nigeria, is being treated at a specialist unit in London. Though monkeypox can be spread through close contact, there is a very low risk of transmission to the public.

The Russian Ministry of Defence has stated that a large amount of the US and European military hardware had been destroyed in a Russian airstrike in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.

Emmanuel Macron has been sworn in for a historic rare second term as France’s president.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has expressed deep concern over the situation in Ukraine, calling for a “peaceful solution” to the conflict in the former Soviet state.

Sweden should refrain from joining NATO, even if Finland decides to become a member of the alliance, Swedish Green Party spokeswoman Marta Stenevi said on Saturday.

Several fires have broken out in southern Siberia, affecting about 200 buildings and causing at least five deaths, local authorities said on Saturday, adding they had placed the area under a state of emergency.

Food insecurity amid the swift rise in food and housing prices in the United States has become a major issue for many Americans.

The Saudi-led coalition forces have impounded another Yemen-bound oil tanker carrying thousands of tons of fuel for the crisis-stricken country in blatant breach of a two-month ceasefire brokered by the United Nations.