The Hindu

U.N. has said the United States owes $2.19 billion to its regular budget, including $767 million for this year, as well as $1.8 billion to a separate budget for the far-flung U.N. peacekeeping operations

Jose Maria Balcazarwas on February 18 named Perus interim leader, for a period of just over five months until the next election, after predecessor Jose Jeri was impeached on graft allegations

Broken down by policy areas, the disapproval rates are 64% for immigration policies, 68% for domestic economic policy and 70% for international economic policy (trade, tariffs, sanctions)

Amid a massive U.S. military buildup in the West Asia that has fueled fears of a wider war, U.S. President Donald Trump said negotiations with Iran were going well but insisted Tehran has to reach a meaningful agreement

Russia has a strategic partnership treaty with Iran, although it does not include a mutual defence clause

A U.K. police force says it has arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office

President Macron is on a three-day trip to India to attend AI Impact Summit 2026

We are determined to continue to shape the rules of the game... with our allies such as India, Macron said in New Delhi

Mr. Trump name-checked prominent Black Americans among his supporters, including boxer Mike Tyson, whom Trump praised for defending him against accusations of racism, and rapper Nicki Minaj

The trial will mark the first time Mark Zuckerberg will address the safety of his world-dominating platforms directly before a jury.

An explosion at a fireworks shop in Chinas Hubei province has killed 12 people

At the time of the fourth alleged rape, he was already under police investigation

Iranian state media broadcast footage on Tuesday (February 17) of Revolutionary Guards drills in and around the Strait of Hormuz, hours after talks began, as semi-official Fars said parts of the waterway would close for a few hours for security precautions.

Any plan requiring Ukraine to give up territory that Russia had not captured in the eastern Donbas region would be rejected by Ukrainians if put to a referendum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

Installations made with sunflowers, roses, orchids, wattles and bougainvillea left at the 2025 Bondi Beach massacre site will be unveiled at the Sydney Jewish Museum next year

The event faced interruption by law enforcement during a follow-up performance at the John F. Kennedy Center

Mr. Jeri took over from unpopular leader Dina Boluarte, who was also impeached amid protests against corruption and a wave of violence linked to organised crime

The series of strikes conducted brought the death toll to at least 145 people since the administration began targeting those it calls narco-terrorists in small vessels since early September

The violence erupted after explosions in Kabul, the Afghan capital, on October 9 that the Taliban government blamed on Pakistan and vowed to avenge

Television and film titan Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN, announced in late October that it was open to acquisition offers; its board subsequently accepted a bid from Netflix to buy only its streaming and studio business.

New York State Police were investigating the cause of the blast, which occurred around 10:30 a.m. at the Abundant Life Fellowship Church in a rural area about 50 miles (80 kilometre) northeast of Syracuse

Ultimately, we were able to reach broad agreement on a set of guiding principles, based on which we will move forward and begin working on the text of a potential agreement, Abbas Araghchi told state TV

Shoring up defence cooperation and enhancing bilateral engagement in the critical technology sector are priority areas for both governments to take forward the ties

TTP claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attack on the FC check post in the Bajaur district bordering Afghanistan

Mr. Trump said it was inappropriate for Britain to be dealing with Democratic governor Gavin Newsom

The U.S. President and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are due to meet in Beijing in April

The so-called truth commission seeks to identify ranch guests and state officials who may have known what was going on at the 7,600-acre property, or taken part in alleged sexual abuse; interim findings likely in July and a final report by year-end

Pawtucket Chief Tina Goncalves told reporters that three other victims are hospitalised in critical condition

Muhammad Yunus emphasised that his 18-month tenure had rebuilt the three fundamental foundations of the countrys foreign engagement: sovereignty, national interests, and dignity.

The announcement comes one day after Mr. Galushchenko was detained by law enforcement attempting to leave Ukraine, and is the latest development in a corruption scandal in the energy sector that rocked the government last year

While the U.S. and Iran are expected to hold talks, mediated by Oman, in the Swiss city on February 17, 2026, the naval forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have started military drills near the Strait of Hormuz

The production company wishes to clarify that the rumours of a criminal or nationally motivated death are false and unfounded, her production company, Donna and Shula Productions said

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on February 16, that Moscow took a very negative view of what he said were false accusations