Karateka Cylia Ouikene has won Algeria's first gold medal of its home Mediterranean Games in Oran.

A total of 35 sports have been confirmed on the programme for the Taipei City and New Taipei City 2025 World Masters Games, including two demonstration events.

World Karate Federation President Antonio Espinós believes that the martial art can confirm its place as one of the most popular sports in Europe.

The sports programme for the 2025 Games of the Small States of Europe in Andorra has been approved, with karate returning following its omission from the 2023 schedule.

World Karate Federation (WKF) representatives have met with senior officials from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), with the aim of advancing efforts for Para karate to feature on the sports programme at Los Angeles 2028.

Tributes have been paid to revered karate expert and chairman of World Karate Federation’s (WKF) Technical Commission Con Kassis, who has died at the age of 63.

Australia dominated the delayed Oceania Karate Championships held in Nouméa, claiming more than half of the gold medals on offer.

New Caledonia is set to host the 2022 Oceania Karate Championship, two years after they were initially scheduled to, following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Turkey finished the European Karate Championships top of the medal table with a victory in the men's team kata event at the Karataş Şahinbey Sport Hall in Gaziantep.

Four different nations claimed team titles on the final day of the Pan American Karate Championships in Curaçao.

Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Sandra Sánchez of Spain once again proved that she is the queen of kata by clinching gold at the 2022 European Karate Championships in Gaziantep.

Three-time and reigning world champion Douglas Brose was among the winners on the final day of individual competition at the Pan American Karate Championships in Curaçao.

Para-karate took the stage on the third day of competition at the 2022 European Karate Championships in the Turkish venue of Gaziantep.

Olympic bronze medallist Ariel Torres successfully defended his men's kata title at the Pan American Karate Championships in Curaçao.

Ivet Goranova of Bulgaria and Ukraine’s Anzhelika Terliuga, respective Olympic gold and silver medallists in the female kumite under-55 kilograms category, will replay their Tokyo 2020 final at the European Karate Championships in the Turkish venue of Gaziantep.