Iran warns Israel against attacks, Israel keeps up pressure on Hezbollah

Scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation, the award-giving body said on Monday.

Increasingly intense floods and droughts are a `distress signal` of what is to come as climate change makes the planet`s water cycle ever more unpredictable, the United Nations said Monday.

The United States (US) has announced an additional 199 million US dollars in humanitarian assistance to support Rohingyas and host communities in Bangladesh and across the region.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that he wants to open a `constructive` chapter in his country’s international relations and that Tehran is `ready to engage` with the West over its nuclear programme.

Leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the United States expanded joint security steps in Asia`s trade-rich waters as outgoing US President Joe Biden hosted counterparts from the Quad grouping established due to shared concerns about China.

A new report from Burmese activist groups is calling on French-based airline manufacturer Airbus to use its influence with Aviation Industry Corporation of China, or AVIC, to pressure the Chinese firm to end its arms sales to the Myanmar junta.

Myanmar’s military regime has stepped up killings and arrests in an apparent bid to silence opponents with tens of thousands of people arrested since the coup more than three years ago, according to a United Nations report.

Chinese prime minister Li Qiang underscored the importance of Saudi Arabia in China`s diplomacy during a meeting Wednesday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, state media reported. 

In the first and possibly only debate between US Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, rivals for the Oval Office this fall, Harris emerged as the clear winner, according to American and international media outlets.

China said Monday it would hold joint military exercises with Russia this month, as the allies deepen ties that have seen NATO dub Beijing an `enabler` of Moscow`s war in Ukraine.

China’s President Xi Jinping Thursday pledged more than 50 billion US dollar in funding to the African continent, and announced elevating ties with all member nations to `strategic level.`

A 14-year-old gunman killed at least four people, including two students, and wounded nine more when he opened fire at a high school in the US state of Georgia on Wednesday, law enforcement said.

The Myanmar military has designated three major ethnic armed groups that have advanced across swaths of northern and western Myanmar over the past year as `terrorist` groups.

Four people who appeared to be sleeping on a US`s Chicago train were fatally shot Monday morning, and a suspect has been taken into custody, police said.

Developing countries are suffering due to the `waning multilateralism spirit,` Indonesia`s outgoing President Joko Widodo said Monday.

The new Chinese ambassador to Myanmar, Ma Jia, met junta defense minister General Tin Aung San in Naypyitaw on Wednesday to discuss border security and joint military training, regime media reported.