A Ukrainian power plant that was damaged in Russian strikes and that supplied heating to more than 1,100 apartment buildings in Kyiv may need two months to repair, mayor Vitali Klitschko said Thursday.

The United States and Russia are closing in on a deal to observe the New START nuclear arms control treaty beyond its expiration on Thursday, Axios reported, citing three sources familiar with the talks.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she believed elections could be held in her country later this year, speaking to Politico in an interview released on Thursday.

President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey is working hard to prevent US-Iran tensions from tipping the Middle East into a new conflict, as the two adversaries signal that disagreement over Tehran's missile arsenal threatens to torpedo a deal.

Hundreds of midwives protested in Athens Thursday over new restrictions on how they work in hospitals that mean they will not be able to deliver babies without a doctor's supervision.

Russia and the United States have agreed to resume high-level military contacts at two-day Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, in a major step of rapprochement between the world's top nuclear powers.

The Kremlin said on Thursday it did not want to waste time answering questions about unproven suggestions in Western media and by Poland's premier that late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein may have been some sort of Russian intelligence asset.

Bangladesh is heading into its first election after a student-led uprising forced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee the country a year-and-a-half ago.

In its manifesto for the upcoming elections, the Bangladesh Jamaat-E-Islami called for peaceful and cooperative relations with neighbouring countries, including India, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Thailand.

Oil smuggling has been so enormously profitable that no matter how many obstacles Washington and Brussels put up, the barrels kept flowing.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office posted a celebratory message on World Hijab Day, calling the head covering the "identity and pride" of Muslim women.

Amnesty International says North Korea is executing people, including young citizens, for watching Squid Game and listening to K-pop.

A client who duped a sex worker with fake proof of payment has been convicted of rape in Belgium, in a ruling the Antwerp court of appeal called unprecedented on Thursday.

Democratic US senators on Thursday urged the Pentagon to conduct an immediate review of SpaceX amid allegations that Chinese investors have secretly acquired stakes in the closely held rocket maker, citing potential national security risks.

With Sheikh Hasinas Awami League barred from contesting, the political battlefield has opened to new contenders.

Bangladesh will allow postal voting for the first time in its history in the February 12 national election, the Election Commission announced last month.

An Indian teacher and activist known for creating hundreds of learning centers and painting educational murals across the walls of slums won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize on Thursday.

Austria's Ambassador to India, Robert Zischg, described the newly announced EU-India Free Trade Agreement political declaration as the "mother of all deals" - one that, he says, will "affect close to two billion people".

Caroline O'Donovan, who joined The Post in 2022, reported on technology companies and corporate accountability, with a particular focus on Amazon.

"Having spent decades navigating the slippery slopes of policy and the treacherous inclines of debate, it was, quite ironically, a simple marble step that proved to be my undoing."

The sudden breakthrough in the India-US trade negotiations was a result of multiple converging factors, Dhruva Jaishankar, Executive Director of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) America, has said.

The US Justice Department has publicly released thousands more documents from the estate of registered sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Saudi Arabia is set to introduce official passports for camels to regulate trade, protect ownership, and manage its 2.2 million-strong camel population, underlining the animal's lasting cultural and economic importance.

Pinterest has fired two engineers for creating a tool that monitored employee layoffs by accessing internal Slack data, violating company policies and privacy.

The files, released by the US Department of Justice, include decade-old emails showing repeated communication between Deepak Chopra and the late convicted sex offender.