Afghanistan’s presidential election will be delayed until July 20, an official said yesterday, three months later than the ballot had been scheduled to be held. The announcement by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) comes after weeks of speculation that the vote would be postponed to create…

Britain’s chances of leaving the European Union are only “50-50” if MPs reject Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, a senior minister warned yesterday. Liam Fox, the international trade secretary and a vocal Brexit campaigner during the 2016 referendum, warned colleagues…

At least 22 people died from a storm that swept through the central Philippine islands at the weekend, authorities said yesterday, with rescue operations under way in flood-inundated communities. The death toll rose from four a day after the storm brought heavy rain to the Bicol and Eastern Visayas…

Saudi Arabia recruited children from Sudan’s conflict-ravaged Darfur region to fight on the front lines in Yemen, the New York Times has reported. The kingdom offered desperate Sudanese families as much as $10,000 to enlist their children to fight in the nearly four-year-old war against Iran-aligned…

From a spy drama that poisoned ties between Russia and the West to major US turnarounds under President Donald Trump, here are some of the major events…