India must better protect tribal peoples and disadvantaged castes subjected to extrajudicial killings, torture and violence by law enforcement, a United Nations watchdog said yesterday.

Gazan authorities said at least five people were killed by Israeli fire on Monday evening, including two children.

Police in India’s eastern Bihar state yesterday used water cannon and detained dozens of protesters attempting to march on the governor’s residence demanding the cancellation of a civil services recruitment examination over allegations of leaked test question papers and other wrongdoing.

Fee to be set at $103,265, Federal Register notice says

Bihar leaders urge Centre not to renew India-Bangladesh Ganges water-sharing treaty, says Indian media

Associated Press put the number of foreigners whose business and tourism visas is planned to be revoked at up to 200,000

The Strait of Hormuz has been the main focus of the six-month war between Iran and the US and Israel

The two sides also exchanged views on regional peace and the way to arrive at a negotiated settlement to the dispute, the statement said.

Gang members attacked displaced people huddling inside a church near Haiti's capital, killing around 40, some of them execution-style, the mayor told AFP on Monday

For months, Masoumeh Zakeri has endlessly replayed the last night she spent with her nine-year-old daughter before she was killed in a strike on her school during the opening hours of the US-Israel war with Iran

Syria said it held talks with Israel in Jordan on Sunday on de-escalation after recent Israeli strikes, and on keeping the country out of tensions between Israel and Turkey, an ally of Damascus.

South Korea said yesterday that the United States had cancelled a large joint amphibious landing exercise scheduled for next month due to constraints on force availability caused by the war with Iran.

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated this weekend from the area of Reno, Nevada, and many others were under orders to leave on Sunday as a wildfire reached the outskirts of the United State’s third-most-populous city.

Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar yesterday told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the economic cooperation between the two countries has grown very significantly.

The Kremlin said yesterday that Britain’s decision to hand Ukraine classified information on British-made components used to make SCALP long-range cruise missiles would “add fuel to the fire” and was regarded by Moscow extremely negatively.

The US yesterday announced an expansion of secondary sanctions it hopes will “sever every economic lifeline” sustaining Iran, as President Donald Trump’s administration struggles to resolve an unpopular war that has pushed energy prices higher.

Pakistan army chief visits Iran as US prepares major sanctions offensive 

Obesity rates climbed in the US for years, but now there are signs this could be changing. Use of weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy has increased rapidly — are they helping?

Adversaries have engaged in war of words over new US sanctions

Demonstrations in the capital New Delhi, triggered by the leak of the national medical entrance test, turned violent on July 20 when thousands of protesters attempted to march towards parliament