Months after it was announced that the surge of immigration agents in Minnesota was coming to an end, fear still pervades parts of the US state.

The ongoing enforcement operation, which sparked nationwide protests after two US citizens were killed, has left some residents shaken - particularly among the largest Somali community outside Africa, found in the city of Minneapolis.

Abdi, a 23-year-

Three Australian women with links to the Islamic State (IS) group have been formally charged after returning home from Syria.

Kawsar Ahmad, 53 and her daughter Zeinab Ahmad, 31 will appear at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday, less than 24 hours after they were arrested at Melbourne airport.

Abbas faces four charges of crimes against humanity with police alleging she went to Syria in 2014 and kept a female slave in her

A year after the four-day India-Pakistan conflict brought South Asia to the edge of a dangerous escalation, the region has drifted into a brittle and deeply uneasy equilibrium.

But the conflict hardened political and diplomatic estrangement, leaving little space even for limited normalisation.

Formal diplomacy is almost non-existent now. The border is shut, trade is suspended

About 2,300 North Korean soldiers have died fighting for Russia against Ukraine, according to a BBC investigation based on satellite images and official photos of a new memorial in Pyongyang.

South Korea estimates at least 11,000 North Koreans were sent to Russia to help recapture parts of western Kursk, after Ukraine launched a surprise incursion in Kursk in August 2024.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has previously publicly paid

On a Tokyo street corner, in the pouring rain, a swelling crowd gathered with drenched placards and sodden flags. On one of them was written just two words, in big bold Japanese kanji characters: "No War".

It's a sentiment that is gaining more and more volume in Japan, which is currently witnessing its largest anti-war protests in decades.

Since coming to power in October 2025, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has taken major steps away from the

At least five people have died in a huge blaze at a crowded fairground in south-eastern Mexico, local officials say.

They say the blaze in the city of Villahermosa, Tabasco state, erupted during a concert in the early hours on Thursday.

Mexico's El País said that, according to official information, as many as 135,000 people were

Wu Yize entered the TNT billiards club to a welcome worthy of a rock star.

Loud chanting and cheering rang around the room in the western Chinese city of Xi'an.

He waved modestly, wearing the expression of a shy 22-year-old not used to such sudden fame at home.

But that did not dampen the enthusiasm of those who had come to get a glimpse of someone on top of the world.

Earlier this week,

President Donald Trump has threatened "much higher" tariffs on the European Union (EU) by 4 July if the bloc fails to drop its levies on the US to zero.

After a phone call with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Trump said the EU had signed a "historic trade deal" with the US and agreed to cut its tariffs.

"I agreed to give her until our Country's 250th Birthday or, unfortunately, their Tariffs would immediately jump to much higher levels,