At least 40 people, most of them students, have been killed in a suspected rebel attack on a school in Uganda, officials have said.

Although paramedics performed life-saving measures, the boys were unresponsive and were then declared dead at the scene, the authorities added.

The delegation began their ‘peace mission’ in Ukraine and plan to visit Russia and meet President Putin on Saturday.

Kyiv’s counteroffensive is losing ground against Russia’s heavily fortified positions.

Airstrikes and artillery attacks are reportedly slowing Ukraine’s advance.

In certain Indian villages, sex work is, in a sense, inherited. Mothers and grandmothers have already worked in the same trade. In the past, they mostly belonged to ethnic groups that worked mainly as performers. The British colonial power criminalized…

Summit concludes with a pact by parliaments globally to confront hunger and malnutrition.

European Union offers cash-strapped Tunisia more than $1bn in financial aid to help boost the nation’s battered economy.

The IOM and UN Refugee Agency say EU must put ‘safety’ at centre of plan for Mediterranean migration route.