A drone strike blamed on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed 13 people outside a courthouse in the army-held central town of Umm Rawaba yesterday, a medical source and witnesses told AFP.

The Eiffel Tower yesterday reopened after staff walked out over the removal of women colleagues during a visit by a Hindu religious group which later apologised.

Landslides in eastern China have killed 13 people with nine others still missing, state media said yesterday, days after heavy rains unleashed by Typhoon Saudel.

Cluster munitions killed or injured more than 1,000 people worldwide in 2025, most of them in Ukraine, a monitor said yesterday, with civilians accounting for the vast majority of victims.

US President Donald Trump has sparked fury by posting a map that seemingly showed Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico and the Caribbean as part of the United States.

Dozens of young people yesterday congregated at Nepal’s burnt-out parliament building to mark the anniversary of deadly anti-corruption protests that toppled the former government.

Rescuers in Nepal are focusing on three hydropower project tunnels where they believe dozens of workers could be trapped, authorities said yesterday, two weeks after a devastating flood killed hundreds and left thousands missing in the Himalayan country and in neighbouring China’s Tibet region.

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks focused US fears on threats from abroad, Americans are now considerably more worried about attacks by domestic extremists than by foreign groups, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

Russian missiles and drones pounded Kyiv overnight, killing two people and sending smoke billowing above the Ukrainian capital, ending Moscow’s temporary halt to strikes on the city.

North Korea called the first road bridge across its narrow border with Russia a concrete sign of tightening bonds, state media reported yesterday, as Pyongyang gains advantages from its powerful neighbours Moscow and Beijing.

China’s President Xi Jinping told British Prime Minister Andy Burnham in a phone call yesterday that their countries should find ways to deepen cooperation despite their “differences”, Beijing’s state media said.

Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthis attacked four cities in the south of US ally Saudi Arabia yesterday, wounding more than 70 people and setting oil installations ablaze in what appeared to be a major expansion of the six-month-old Middle East war.

Britain yesterday announced a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in coordination with France and Canada, the latest sanctions to target Israel as it faces growing diplomatic isolation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump had an “extremely frank” phone call yesterday, after US negotiators visited Moscow over the weekend, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters, including AFP.

UK and other countries worried about E1 settlement

Police looking for the two thieves who left with two paintings while abandoning two more in the museum garden

Rescuers search hydropower tunnels where hundreds remain unaccounted for

Britain will announce a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank later on Tuesday, confirmed pensions minister Pat McFadden.

From next week, park managers will be taking their emergency measures even further by banning tourists from the watering hole and other busy areas, to give the animals a breather after months without rain.

Days of fighting near the Red Sea coast have left more than 300 people dead and displaced hundreds of families as the Houthis try to capture land bordering the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait.