Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel in a counter-strike Friday, after an unprecedented onslaught hammered the Islamic republic's top military brass and targeted its nuclear facilities and bases.
A North Korean naval destroyer damaged in a botched launch last month was successfully set afloat on a second attempt, with leader Kim Jong Un presiding, state media said on Friday.
More than 2,73,000 Syrians who fled their country鈥檚 civil war to neighbouring Turkey have returned home since the fall of president Bashar al-Assad in December, Turkey鈥檚 vice-president said on Friday.
Nuclear-armed states spent more than $100 billion on their atomic arsenals last year, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said Friday, lamenting the lack of democratic oversight of such spending.
Cambodia ordered troops to stay on 鈥榝ull alert鈥� and banned Thai dramas on television on Friday in an on-going border spat between the Southeast Asian neighbours.
A fourth night of anti-immigrant unrest in Northern Ireland left another 22 officers injured, police said Friday, as violent protests spread to a second town.
The lone survivor of 242 people aboard a London-bound passenger plane that crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad said Friday how even he was struggling to explain how he miraculously walked out alive from the fireball explosion.
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte鈥檚 defence team at the International Criminal Court has filed a motion for his interim release to an unnamed country, stating the prosecution would not object.
US president Donald Trump implored Israel on Thursday not to attack Iran and declared, once again, his goal was to be a peacemaker.
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah condemned Israel鈥檚 wave of strikes on its backer Iran on Friday, warning that they threaten to 鈥榠gnite the region鈥�.
Investigators recovered a black box recorder on Friday from the crash site of a London-bound passenger jet that ploughed into a residential area of India鈥檚 Ahmedabad city, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground.
