Four people were killed and three others seriously injured in a car crash involving a migrant smuggling operation near the US-Mexico border in Texas, police said.

Italy has updated heath protocols in the workplace, as the main Covid-19 indicators in the country have worsened in recent days.

Canada's real gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to 0.3 per cent in April with an advance estimate of a 0.2 per cent decline in May, according to official figures.

New South Wales (NSW) has resumed its position as Australia's top destination for domestic and international travellers since the lifting of Covid-19 border restrictions, according to the latest figures.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that he will not run in the upcoming elections as his coalition government has collapsed only a year after its inauguration in June 2021.

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said that the world "will not return to the low-inflation environment" before the Covid-19 pandemic.

More than three million passengers travelled through Irish airports in May, an over 18-fold increase year-on-year, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in Dublin said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has addressed a NATO summit through a video link, urging more defence and financial assistance for Ukraine, the presidential press service reported.

China's financial hub Shanghai is gradually resuming dine-in services at restaurants starting from Wednesday as the COVID-19 epidemic has waned in the city.

Cambodia sets July 23, 2023 as the date for the seventh National Assembly election, according to a decision signed by the country's Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Wednesday.

South Korea on Wednesday approved the use of SKYCovione, the country's first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine developed by SK Bioscience Co., taking a major step toward achieving vaccine sovereignty in the fight against the pandemic.

China's national observatory on Wednesday issued a yellow alert for high temperatures, as heatwaves swept vast regions of the country.

Three people were injured in an explosion at a fuel station in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, rescue teams said on Wednesday.

South Korea's inflation expectations hit the highest in over 10 years this month, fueling worry about faster-than-expected interest rate hikes, central bank data showed Wednesday.

Two Canadian ships departed for a four-month deployment in the Baltic Sea and North Atlantic region on Operation Reassurance to enhance NATO readiness, the Defence Ministry said.

At least six police officers were killed during a shootout with armed individuals travelling in a convoy of about 10 armoured trucks in Nuevo Leon state, authorities said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said his country welcomes the reopening of the Iranian and Saudi Arabian Embassies in Riyadh and Tehran.

The Egyptian cabinet announced that more than 70 per cent of the structural works in the first stage of the New Administrative Capital (NAC) have been completed.

At least five people were killed and over a dozen others injured after a stand collapsed during a bullfight in Colombia's Tolima Department, local authorities said.

The Hong Kong government said that it will distribute around 190,000 sets of Covid-19 rapid antigen test (RAT) kits as part of a follow-up on the recent detection of the virus in sewage samples.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Belarus is being drawn into Russia's ongoing war against Kiev more actively than at the beginning, and that the Kremlin has already "decided everything" for Minsk.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka on Saturday announced that the amount of foreign currency an individual can hold has been reduced from $15,000 to $10,000.

Denmark will temporarily reduce tax on electricity starting from the fourth quarter of this year as a means of "compensation to citizens for its rising energy prices".

Employers in Canada were actively seeking to fill about one million vacant positions at the beginning of April, up 44.4 per cent from the same period of the previous year.

The Omicron sub-lineage BA.5 has become the dominant Covid-19 variant in Germany, accounting for around half of the infections, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases.

Italy's Covid-19 reproduction number (RT) is on the rise, while hospitalisations have also spiked amid a fresh resurgence, according to government data.

The US space agency has determined that its Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket is ready for the Artemis 1 flight test.

The European Commission on Friday announced plans to issue 50 billion euros ($52 billion) of EU-Bonds to finance the NextGenerationEU recovery program between July and December.

Following a steady growth during the summer, the year-on-year inflation in France is expected to stabilise between 6.5 and 7 per cent in the autumn, the country's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) said.

China's National Meteorological Center on Wednesday renewed a blue alert for rainstorms in various parts of the country.

Foreign currency deposits at banks in South Korea grew in May due to increased corporate savings, central bank data showed on Wednesday.

China on Wednesday sent a new satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

A software engineer from Telangana was shot dead by an unidentified person in Maryland state of the US.

Four million people, including 1.6 million children, are currently stranded by flash floods in Bangladesh and are in urgent need of help, the Unicef said.

Ireland's health authorities said 606 new Covid-19 patients were hospitalised across the country, an increase of 153 people or 33.77 per cent, compared to a week ago, putting increased pressure on hospitals.