The South Korean government issued the highest heat warning in four years as the international event hosting thousands of young people was starting.

Niger’s new military junta has asked for help from the Russian mercenary group Wagner as the deadline nears for it to release the country’s ousted president or face possible military intervention by the West African regional bloc, according to an analyst.

A series of sharp rises in energy and food prices in Pakistan, pushed its weekly inflation up by 1.30 per cent and annualised inflation up to 29.83 per cent, Pakistan’s Geo News reported on Saturday citing The News.

A rare river otter attack in southern Montana has injured three women floating in inner tubes.

China has executed a South Korean national for drug trafficking, Beijing’s foreign ministry said, the first time such a sentence has been carried out on a citizen of that country in almost a decade.