The Vatican has confirmed a ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons, a centuries-old secretive society that the Catholic Church has long viewed with hostility and has an estimated global membership of up to six million.

The mother of a six-year-old boy who shot his teacher in the US state of…

A Ugandan military court has found two officers guilty of cowardice as Islamist fighters stormed an African Union base in Somalia in May.

When US President Joe Biden recently signed off on a $80m (£64.6m) grant to Taiwan for the purchase of American military equipment, China said it “deplores and opposes” what Washington had done.

We are waiting to hear from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken soon – he has been meeting with the Israeli PM and the war cabinet in Tel Aviv this morning and is in Israel to call for “concrete steps” to minimise harm to civilians in the Gaza Strip.

Nigeria’s lower chamber of parliament has rejected the government’s plan to buy a presidential yacht for $6m (£5m), a senior lawmaker has said.