US authorities arrested a man Monday on suspicion of arson in connection with the biggest of three fires burning around the northwestern city of Spokane, as firefighters raced to contain flames that have displaced tens of thousands.

Ukrainian drones struck three warehouses across Russia overnight, including two run by online retailer Wildberries, killing five people, local officials said yesterday.

India’s Gen-Z Cockroach Janta Party, whose recent protest against exam paper leaks claimed a rare ministerial scalp, has no immediate plans to enter electoral politics, its founder told Reuters yesterday.

The US Army has depleted much of its arsenal of long‑range precision missiles during the five‑month war with Iran, raising concerns about readiness for future conflicts, according to several people familiar with internal data.

Qatar said mediators were making progress in efforts to end the US-Iran war yesterday, although Tehran has denied President Donald Trump’s assertion that talks are already under way.

US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace on Monday assured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel’s withdrawal in Gaza would only begin after Hamas’s complete disarmament, following his objections.

Two migrants were rescued yesterday after spending two weeks adrift in the Mediterranean while trying to reach Spain’s Balearic Islands, authorities said, adding they were searching for 17 others who survivors said had been aboard the boat.

Iran's foreign ministry denied on Monday that negotiations with Washington were taking place, but Trump insisted they were. "We are talking right now," he said

Tehran believes Trump will yield under pressure, sources say

The previous death toll had stood at 5,546

Myanmar’s detained democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the Red Cross representative to the country yesterday, the humanitarian group said, the first publicised meeting between her and a foreign official since she was ousted in a 2021 coup.

Soaring temperatures caused a fire to erupt in an arms depot at a major military base north of Baghdad on Sunday, the Iraqi defence ministry said.

Gunmen kidnapped at least 52 people, including children, in a weekend attack on a village and military base in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state, local sources said yesterday.

Cuba’s power grid failed late on Sunday, causing another nationwide blackout, a state utility said in a social media post.

Firefighters worked to contain huge blazes in the US city of Spokane in the east of Washington state early yesterday after officials reported hundreds of structures had been reduced to cinders.

Ukrainian strikes on a Russian resort village and Moscow-annexed Crimea -- two summer destinations popular among Russian tourists -- killed six people, local officials said yesterday.

A group of 25 Democratic-led US states sued President Donald Trump’s administration yesterday, challenging the president’s latest round of tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners, according to the office of Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield.

Iran denied any negotiations were taking place with the United States after President Donald Trump said new talks were due to begin yesterday in an effort to end their war, now in its sixth month.

Russian anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin -- who was recently detained outside Moscow and blocked from running for parliament -- said yesterday he had left the country, in a video posted from Paris.

More than eight years after Boeing organized the maiden flight of the 737 MAX 7, the aircraft has won certification, US authorities announced yesterday.