Indian rescuers yesterday pulled bodies from mud and rubble after the latest deadly flood to crash through a Himalayan village killed at least 60 people and washed away dozens more.

All of Spain was on a heatwave alert yesterday, while the weather agency warned that much of the country was at “very high to extreme risk” from wildfires.

Public transport will be temporarily free of charge in Geneva, in a first for Switzerland, as part of a series of measures aimed at tackling a spike in pollution in the city.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Israeli authorities to immediately halt the advancement of plans of settlement construction in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank, said the UN chief’s spokesperson.

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin flew to Alaska yesterday for a high-risk summit that promises a stern test of the US president’s promise to end the bloody war in Ukraine.

The attorney general for the US capital Washington has sued Donald Trump’s administration over what he called a “hostile takeover” of the city’s police force, which the Republican president said was necessary to fight violent crime.

Putin and Trump will discuss the full spectrum of US-Russia relations, not only Ukraine, and their talks will be aimed at restoring ties, says special envoy

The exact number of missing persons is yet to be determined

Trump made the comments to reporters on Air Force One as he travels to Alaska for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Parades were planned in several cities, including in central Kabul

The US and Russian presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are to meet at a US air base in Alaska on Friday for talks on the Ukraine war.

Putin flies to Alaska on Friday at the invitation of Trump in his first visit to a Western country since he ordered the 2022 invasion of Ukraine that has killed tens of thousands of people.

Bitcoin hit a record high on Thursday during early Asian trading, surpassing $124,000, driven by favourable US legislation and a rise in US equities.

At least 40 people have died in Sudan’s Darfur region in the country’s worst cholera outbreak in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said yesterday.

The Israeli military said yesterday it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels claiming responsibility for the attack.

Israeli forces demolished houses in eastern areas of Gaza City yesterday, with aerial and tank fire killing at least 23 people, according to local health authorities, as the Palestinian group Hamas told mediators it was ready to resume ceasefire talks.

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would ask the Republican-controlled Congress to extend federal control of Washington’s city police force beyond 30 days, escalating his campaign to exert presidential power over the nation’s capital.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers divert international aid by force and other means, block minority communities from receiving aid and may collude with UN officials to seek kickbacks, a US watchdog said.

At least 38 people died and more than 200 were missing following sudden, heavy rain in Indian Kashmir, officials said yesterday, the second such disaster in the Himalayas in a little over a week.

India said yesterday that it hoped relations with the United States would move forward based on mutual respect and shared interests, seeking to temper worries that ties were headed downhill in the aftermath of high tariffs imposed by Washington.