Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday urged countries to oppose “external interference” in the Middle East and said Beijing was ready to work with regional states to safeguard maritime shipping, jeopardised by the US-Iran war.

The US and Iran were back on a war footing yesterday after the most significant exchange of fire in weeks, with Washington threatening more devastating strikes, while Iran condemned an attack that it said killed four and wounded dozens of civilians at a wedding.

Hopes of finding more survivors among the thousands still missing in Nepal were fading, authorities said yesterday, a week after a glacier collapse in the Himalayas unleashed flash floods that devastated the mountainous nation.

Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left nearly 4,000 missing.

Anti-narcotics agents from the United States and Sri Lanka seized almost half a tonne of crystal methamphetamine following a joint operation targeting a Pakistani drug network, police said yesterday.

A Turkish cargo ship sank in the Marmara Sea near Istanbul after colliding with a second vessel, with rescuers searching for its 10 crew members, Turkish officials said yesterday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday visited troops in the Gaza Strip, where he vowed not to withdraw forces from their positions despite a US-declared ceasefire.

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The 33-year-old was arrested in Dhaka in 2022

Iran says US strike hit wedding party, killing five and wounding dozens

The Lincoln, with roughly ​5,000 sailors and Marines, was deployed in November last year and was involved in the US naval blockade and combat operations in the war with Iran.

A group of Israelis who regularly travel to the West Bank to protect Palestinians who are victims of increasing attacks by settlers say their Jewish faith drove them towards activism

Nepal's rapper-turned-prime minister swept to power six months ago promising reform, but his young government now faces its gravest test after a glacial collapse unleashed catastrophe

The US military said late it completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran, saying it struck Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets as the war on Iran escalated following a weekend exchange of fire

India’s Supreme Court (SC) yesterday called off criminal investigations against most of the protesters who took part in demonstrations over the leak of a medical exam paper that forced the resignation of the education minister.

Russian air attacks killed 12 people and injured dozens more in Kyiv and the surrounding region early yesterday, authorities said, marking the sixth consecutive day of strikes on the Ukrainian capital.

The death toll from devastating Himalayan glacial floods rose to 1,066 yesterday, as Chinese and Nepali teams searched for survivors, including dozens feared trapped in hydropower tunnels.

The United Nations refugee agency said yesterday it was not involved in Malaysia’s planned repatriation of Myanmar refugees, and warned that it remains unsafe for them to return to the war-torn country.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian yesterday thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for Moscow’s position on the Iran war and resulting sanctions, and said together, Moscow and Tehran can resist what he called the US’ “unilateralism”.

This represents about 20 percent of Venezuela's massive reserves, which are the largest in the world. That could be a major boost for US reserves.