US President Donald Trump summoned his top national security officials to the Oval Office on Monday to discuss Venezuela, as his counterpart Nicolas Maduro rejected a “slave’s peace” amid mounting fears of American military action.

Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) said yesterday that India was preventing humanitarian assistance from being sent to Sri Lanka, where severe flooding and landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah have claimed more than 400 lives.

Afghanistan’s Taliban administration said it assured neighbouring Tajikistan yesterday it was ready to tighten border security and conduct joint investigations, after attacks which Dushanbe said were launched from Afghan territory killed five Chinese nationals over the past week.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday urged a complete end to his country’s war with Russia and not just a “pause” in the fighting.

Japanese and Chinese vessels engaged in a fresh standoff around disputed islands yesterday, the two countries’ coast guards said.

A three-judge panel ruled unanimously that Alina Habba, 41, has been unlawfully serving as the US Attorney for the District of New Jersey.

The SAFE (Security Action for Europe) programme aims to provide loans to participating countries on favourable terms to jointly purchase weapons alongside other partners.

A total of 11 people were killed in the two strikes in early September

India’s telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed, a move likely to antagonise Apple and privacy advocates.

The Mauritanian coastguard on Sunday rescued 141 migrants from a vessel adrift off the west African coast, official sources told AFP.

Authorities said yesterday they have made a total 13 arrests over Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades after the blaze killed 151 people last week, a toll that could further rise.

Allegations of “large-scale voter deletion” in India’s West Bengal are “false” and “fabricated” and an attempt to further vested political interests, the Election Commission has told the Supreme Court in an affidavit. The allegations are being spread as a “narrative” in the media to gain political mileage, the poll body said.

The toll in deadly flooding and landslides across parts of Asia climbed past 1,100 yesterday as hardest-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel to help survivors.

Saudi Arabia quietly facilitated a round of direct talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan aimed at easing tensions over cross-border terrorism, but the discussions wrapped up late on Sunday without any breakthrough, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.

The sons of Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan fear authorities are concealing “something irreversible” about his condition after more than three weeks with no evidence that he is still alive, one of them said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris yesterday, seeking to shore up European support as US President Donald Trump expressed optimism of a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Tourists and business people from the two countries can avail the facility for up to 90 days

Use of the term has tripled over the past year, Oxford data shows

Dozens of airlines from Asia to the United States said they had carried out a snap software retrofit ordered by Airbus

Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia have been hit hardest.