US Presidential Envoy John Coale hopes hundreds more Belarus prisoners will be released in the months to come as 25 are sent home.
Staff Writers
Saudia Arabia has hit Yemen hard while accusing the Houthis of targeting Islam's holiest city, as the rebels secure their advances in the widening Mideast war.
Jana Choukeir and Nayera Abdallah
Rescuers have dug with their bare hands to find survivors after a war-damaged building collapsed in Gaza, killing at least 20 people and trapping dozens more.
Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
Two people have been killed in a Russian attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk.
The war in Iran is expected to increase US inflation by 0.5 per cent in the first three months of 2027, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Jacob Bogage
Saudi Arabia remains on high alert with wide range issued following a week of strikes that saw the crucial East West Pipeline knocked out.
Hamas sources say a senior commander, Nael Abu Obeid, has been killed in Israeli air strikes.
Nidal al-Mughrabi
The question of how much oil is flowing through the Strait of Hormuz has become the latest rhetorical battleground in the war, despite President Donald Trump claiming to have already won.
Karen DeYoung
Houthi fighters have gained more ground in Yemen, taking control of two strategic islands in the southern Red Sea.
Hours after NATO warned Russia over strikes close to the alliance's territory, its fighter jets have shot down a drone that entered the skies above Lithuania.
Liudas Dapkus
Iran has condemned the exclusion of the head of its atomic energy organisation from an annual gathering of the United Nations nuclear agency in Austria.
Two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a car in Gaza City, Palestinian news agency WAFA reports.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's government has imposed sanctions including asset freezes on his former press secretary Yuliia Mendel.
Ukraine's rail operator says a Russian drone hit a train shortly after former UK prime minister Boris Johnson and other European diplomats used the same line.
The Yemen conflict has intensified as government forces launched attacks against Houthi positions along the Red Sea and Houthi rebels fired into Saudi Arabia.
Yemen's Houthis have launched fresh strikes on Saudi Arabia and Arab states have called off a meeting with Iran as the widening war pressures oil supplies.
Jana Choukeir and Eman Abouhassira
Warsaw is promising a response to a wave of Russian drone strikes near Poland's border with Ukraine, which it's condemned as a serious escalation.
Claudia Ciobanu and Elise Morton
There are fresh headaches for US President Donald Trump with Houthi militants poised to potentially choke off the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Humeyra Pamuk, Simon Lewis and Matt Spetalnick
South Korea says the North has launched short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea, a day after South Korea, Japan and the US concluded military drills.
Previously classified papers detailing intelligence gathered on Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda prior to the 9/11 attacks have been released by the CIA.
Meg Kinnard
The capture by Houthi rebels of a strategic island at the southern end of the Red Sea threatens oil exports and opens a new front in the US's war with Iran.
Fatma Khaled, Samy Magdy and Cara Anna
Russian drone attacks on petrol stations in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv have killed two people, with more drones launched in retaliation.
Memorial events have been taking place across the United States to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks in which nearly 3000 people died
Collin Binkley and Meg Kinnard
The United States is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that left nearly 3000 people dead and the nation shaken.
Jennifer Peltz
