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Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian-born billionaire banker who served as a senior official in the breakaway Armenian administration of Nagorno-Karabakh, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by an Azerbaijani court on Tuesday, state media reported. A Baku military court convicted Vardanyan on 42 charges...

Nigeria's foreign ministry has issued an urgent warning over what it describes as the increasing illegal recruitment of its citizens to fight in foreign conflicts. It comes after Ukrainian officials said they found the bodies of two Nigerians who they said were killed in combat last year. Nigeria...

Israel's government has approved a process to register land in the West Bank as "state property," drawing condemnation from Arab nations and critics who said it would accelerate annexation of the Palestinian territory. Israel's Foreign Ministry said the measure, approved late on Sunday, February 15...

Israeli forces have killed at least nine Palestinians in new attacks across Gaza, in yet another violation of the United States-brokered “ceasefire” in October, according to medical sources. The attacks on Sunday came as the Israeli military launched several attacks on southern Lebanon, targeting...

Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians in attacks across the Gaza Strip, medical sources said, as United States President Donald Trump announced that his newly formed Board of Peace has pledged $5bn to rebuild the war-devastated territory. The Israeli killings on Sunday mark the latest...

Israeli forces have bombed a vehicle near Lebanon’s border with Syria, killing at least four people, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health. The Israeli air strike took place early on Monday morning, it said in a statement. The Israeli military said the raid took place in the Majdal...

Gunmen on motorcycles have rampaged through three villages in northern Nigeria, killing at least 46 people and abducting several more, according to witnesses and local police. The raids by gunmen happened in villages in the Borgu local government area in Niger State, on the border with Kwara and...

More than 6,000 people were killed in over three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group unleashed “a wave of intense violence … shocking in its scale and brutality” in Sudan’s Darfur region in late October, according to the United Nations. The Rapid Support Forces’ offensive to capture the city of...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has claimed victory in the country’s first election since the 2024 uprising, positioning itself to form the next government and potentially reshape Bangladesh’s political landscape after years of intense rivalry and disputed polls. The final tally has not yet been...

Syrian ⁠forces ⁠have taken control of the strategic al-Tanf military base near the border with Iraq and Jordan, the Syrian Defence Ministry has said, amid the withdrawal of a longstanding United States troop presence at the base. The ministry said in a statement on Thursday that Syrian Arab Army...