Nine Nepalis reached the summit of Mount Everest yesterday, opening the route for hundreds of climbers expected to scale the world’s highest mountain in the coming weeks.

Azerbaijani troops on Friday killed one Armenian soldier in border clashes between the arch foes, Yerevan said, on the second day of fighting which threatens to derail EU-led weekend peace talks.

Singapore reported its highest temperature in 40 years yesterday, officials said, as a blistering heatwave burns through large parts of South and Southeast Asia.

The political unrest that’s engulfed Pakistan since former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested earlier this week will complicate efforts to secure a financial lifeline from the International Monetary Fund and exacerbate the country’s economic crisis.

Thai opposition leaders toured Bangkok in open-top jeeps yesterday in a final-day bid to woo voters, urging them to turn out in force to oust the military-backed government.

Israel yesterday ruled out an immediate truce in Gaza, saying the onus was on Palestinian militants to stop launching rockets from an arsenal it suggested could be depleted within days, while its aircraft kept up strikes in the enclave.

Khartoum residents described fierce battles yesterday with fighters roving the streets and little sign Sudan’s warring sides were respecting an agreement to protect civilians ahead of ceasefire talks due to resume in Saudi Arabia today.

Kyiv yesterday said that the massive new weapons package from Germany was another sign that Russia would lose in its war against Ukraine.

Twenty-four people were killed yesterday when a bus carrying churchgoers heading for a religious service rammed into a truck in southern Zambia, police said.

The head of a Rwandan opposition party, Frank Habineza, said yesterday he would run for president in next year’s election after winning the nomination of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda.

The death toll in an investigation linked to a Kenyan cult that practised starvation has climbed to 201, as investigators yesterday unearthed 22 more bodies from a coastal forest, a government official said.

A resurgent Congress, India's main opposition, today swept back to power in the southern state of Karnataka, dethroning the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party from its only southern perch in a boost to the grand old party ahead of the next general elections due early next year

Israel and Gaza militants traded heavy fire yesterday as hopes faded of securing a truce to end days of fighting that have killed dozens, all but one of them Palestinian.

Elon Musk has named former NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's new CEO, as the company tries to reverse a plunge in ad revenue

Fresh border clashes erupted between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces yesterday, Yerevan said, a day after deadly fighting threatened to derail EU-led weekend peace talks between the Caucasus arch-foes.

France’s highest court yesterday ruled that the country could try foreign suspects under the universal jurisdiction principle, greenlighting inquiries into two Syrians accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Three men sentenced to death in Iran over protests that erupted last year are at imminent risk of execution after the supreme court upheld their sentences, Amnesty International warned yesterday.

Publishers in Taiwan yesterday warned their peers not to visit mainland China and Hong Kong after an editor from the self-ruled island who went missing was detained on suspicion of national security crimes.

Migrant crossings through the Mediterranean have reached unprecedented levels as increasingly organised smuggling gangs are producing makeshift boats much more easily, the head of the European Union’s border agency said.

Ukraine said yesterday that its forces had recaptured chunks of territory around the embattled city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region, which has been the epicentre of fighting with Russia for months.