Attempting to burnish his credentials as a solver of conflicts, US President Donald Trump said he had imposed "sanctions" on India to help end the war between Russia and Ukraine while simultaneously stating he is very close to New Delhi and PM Modi.

The Holy See is not ready to declare Israel's campaign in Gaza genocide, Pope Leo XIV said in an interview given in July but published Thursday.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, on Thursday, welcomed Donald Trump to his country home of Chequers for talks on difficult issues, including trade, Ukraine, and Gaza, after the US president hailed his second state visit to the UK as the "highest honour".

Deposed prime minister K P Sharma Oli has moved from the army barracks to a private place, after spending nine days under the Nepalese Army security.

The European Union (EU) on Wednesday unveiled a new strategic agenda to significantly ramp up its engagement with India in a range of key areas such as defence, trade and energy, and to jointly tackle major global challenges.

The European Union must look to trade deals with countries like India to reduce dependencies, with higher US import tariffs pushing the bloc to diversify its ties, President Ursula von der Leyen said

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that artificial intelligence was taking over the world and he hoped tech bosses knew what they were doing, because he didn't.

Donald Trump claimed that his Russian counterpart let him down during the process of solving the Ukraine war. Keir Starmer also criticised Putin and said that he showed his "true face" with the biggest attack on Ukraine.

Houston police await autopsy results to determine the exact cause of death.

Ukraine said on Thursday that its drones had struck a major oil processing and petrochemical complex and an oil refinery in Russia, part of an intensifying campaign to disrupt Moscow's oil and gas sector.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte plan to present "photographic and scientific evidence" to prove that France's first lady is not a transgender woman after suing the United States' far-right influencer Candace Owens

Israel's ground-based high-power laser defence system Iron Beam will be deployed by the end this year, reports claimed at a time the country's war with Hamas shows no signs of abatement.

China has launched a crackdown on powerful Buddhist monks suspected of misusing temple funds for personal wealth.

Kash Patel defended the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files as he faced questioning by Democrats over the case. In a video that is now going viral, Patel can be seen heckled by activists over the Epstein case and Israel.

Russia has reportedly started using Nazi-era weapons in its four-year-long war on Ukraine, as its military stockpiles dwindle and the Kremlin scrambles to rearm its forces.

US President Donald Trump was greeted with royal pomp on Wednesday as his second UK state visit began. King Charles III hosted Trump at Windsor Castle.

British MP Bob Blackman brought together community leaders, spiritual figures and parliamentarians at the UK House of Commons to celebrate Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 75th birthday.

India's decision to send 65 soldiers to Zapad 2025 - Russian-Belarussian military exercises 'designed to test the two countries' defensive readiness' - has set the West, specifically the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, or NATO, on edge.

Exhaustion, despair and anger are grinding away at Ne'man Abu Jarad. Once again, for the 11th time, he and his family have been forced to uproot and move across the Gaza Strip.

Taiwan will jointly manufacture a missile and an underwater drone with a US company for the first time, officials said Thursday, as Taipei seeks to boost domestic weapons and ammunition production.