Japanese elections are normally steady and boring affairs. This snap election was neither. The dramatic vote follows a political funding corruption scandal, revealed last year, which implicated senior lawmakers from…

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has given a measured response to Israeli strikes on the country, saying the attack should not be “exaggerated or downplayed” while refraining from pledging immediate…

Matthew Goddard/BBC Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has accused the opposition of undermining the country’s constitutional order Georgia’s prime minister, Irakli Kobakhidze, has rejected allegations of vote-rigging and violence in…

A US singer has apologised after she swore on live TV during a performance of the US national anthem. Loomis prompted mockery on social media when she performed The Star-Spangled…

A senior UN official in Sudan says she is deeply troubled by reports of “atrocious crimes” in the central Gezira state, including the mass killing of civilians by the paramilitary…

Magen David Adom The emergency services say they are treating dozens of casualties Dozens of people are reported to be injured after a truck hit a bus stop in what…

Reuters Israel has carried out what it described as “precise and targeted” airstrikes on Iran in retaliation for the barrage of missile strikes launched by Tehran against Israel earlier this…

BBC Barrett Pall showing a diary entry about his experience to BBC correspondent Rianna Croxford In a federal courtroom in New York, for the first time I’m face to face…

BBC Donald Trump enjoys a huge lead among men, while women tell pollsters they prefer Kamala Harris by a similarly large margin. The political gender gap reflects a decade of…

AFP Botswana’s governing party – in power for almost six decades – is trying to pull off a trick in Wednesday’s general election by using a phrase normally associated with…