Landslides and floods triggered by heavy downpours in Nepal and neighbouring India have killed more than 60 people, officials said yesterday, as rescue workers raced to reach cut-off communities in remote mountainous terrain.

The death toll from an Indonesian school collapse rose to 45 yesterday, officials said, as rescuers recovered more victims buried under the rubble.

UK police are to be given greater powers to restrict protests as a minister said repeated large-scale pro-Palestinian demonstrations had caused “considerable fear” for the Jewish community.

Iran’s top diplomat yesterday said that cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog was no longer relevant following the reimposition of international sanctions on the Islamic republic.

The assembly's formation is set to consolidate the power of Sharaa

They marched to mark what organisers said was "two years of genocide" in Gaza.

In its response to the Trump plan, Hamas had insisted it should have a say in the territory's future

ICE agents fired pepper spray and loaded rubber bullets as part of heated exchanges with protesters on Saturday

Oregon lawsuit claims Trump's deployment violates state rights

Flotilla activists deported from Israel arrive in Istanbul

Photographer-activist Shahidul Alam, the only Bangladeshi aboard the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla, said their mission is not to risk lives but to challenge what he termed “an illegal blockade” and stand in solidarity with journalists and health workers under attack.

International activists who arrived in Istanbul after being deported from Israel following the military’s interception of their Gaza-bound flotilla yesterday said they had been subjected to violence and “treated like animals”.

Thousands rallied in Georgia yesterday, heeding the opposition’s call to protest local elections with a “last chance” demonstration to save democracy.

Czechs finished voting Saturday in a general election in which the party of self-described “Trumpist” billionaire Andrej Babis is a frontrunner, triggering concerns about Prague’s support for Ukraine and future ties with the European Union.

The head of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah said Saturday that Washington’s plan for a ceasefire in Gaza was “full of dangers”, accusing Israel of using the proposal to achieve what it “failed” to do during the war.

The tomb of Pharoah Amenhotep III, one of the largest in southern Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and Queens, was officially opened to the public yesterday, after years of restoration.

Conservative Sanae Takaichi hailed a “new era” yesterday after becoming head of Japan’s ruling party, putting her on course to become the country’s first woman prime minister.

President Donald Trump has urged Israel to halt its bombing of Gaza after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accepted some key parts of a US peace plan -- a shift that could mean a two-year-old war is finally coming to a close.

Dozens were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza yesterday despite a demand from US President Donald Trump for Israel to stop bombing in response to a declaration by Hamas that it was ready to free hostages under his plan to end the two-year-old war.

Israel yesterday said that it had deported 137 more activists who were detained while taking part in an aid flotilla bound for Gaza.