Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a breakfast meeting with newly elected NDA Lok Sabha MPs amid the ongoing ruckus in Parliament, urging them to actively participate in the parliamentary debates.

Polling in two districts of disputed Pakistan-administered Kashmir has been postponed because of security concerns, the election commission said yesterday, days before voting was due to take place.

The United States announced new sanctions on Thursday that target Cuban Armed Forces Minister General Alvaro Lopez Miera, seven other individuals and five state-owned entities over their alleged role in foreign arms procurement.

Ukrainian drones hit a warehouse belonging to Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries hundreds of miles from the frontline yesterday, the latest in a series of attacks on its facilities.

With President Donald Trump’s war against Iran now in its sixth month, a mix of threats and diplomacy has underscored the bind he faces in trying to end a conflict he once claimed would last weeks.

Agreement commits three countries to collective deterrence against armed aggression

Government prioritises younger children as reception centres remain overcrowded

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Jeddah

Meta was previously ordered to pay $375mn in damages to New Mexico in March when a jury found the company liable for making children vulnerable to predators on its platforms

Attacks mark one of the deadliest clashes since 2022, officials say

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Houthi missile and drone attacks in Yemen yesterday killed at least 38 government troops and injured 29, two medical sources told AFP, in one of the deadliest days between the two sides in years.

Iran has launched a diplomatic offensive across the Gulf, warning regional governments that Tehran will strike their oil, power and water facilities unless they persuade Donald Trump to halt US attacks and seek a negotiated end to the war.

An Indian court yesterday sentenced former news magazine editor Tarun Tejpal to 10 years in prison after convicting him of raping a junior colleague, in a case that drew nationwide attention.

A record number of people were reported last year to the UK’s anti-radicalisation Prevent programme, the interior ministry said yesterday, with “extreme right-wing” concerns accounting for the most referrals related to an ideology.

Italy took the unprecedented step of placing all its major cities on the highest level of health alert due to high temperatures yesterday while Hungary turned off the lights at some of its best-known buildings to save energy as a heatwave maintained its grip on large parts of Europe.

After spending more than $30m on a candidate who lost the Michigan Democratic Senate primary on Wednesday, the leading pro-Israel lobbying group in the US has now indicated it will pivot to the Republican in that race come November.

Ukraine struck two Russian oil refineries hundreds of kilometres from the border in an overnight attack, President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday, as Russia hit a train station and commercial ship in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump said yesterday the United States has a vast supply of munitions and threatened those who suggested otherwise with jail terms as his frustration with the Iran war boiled over.

It was the first such indictment since the outbreak of the Gaza war in 2023