Nepali candidates launched their campaigns yesterday for next month’s parliamentary elections, the first since deadly anti‑corruption protests toppled the previous government in 2025.

Russia’s defence ministry said yesterday that it had downed 345 Ukrainian drones in the past 24 hours and taken control of two settlements, state media reported.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen reflected a feeling of profound change among European leaders at this weekend’s Munich Security Conference when she said: “Some lines have been crossed that cannot be uncrossed anymore”.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps began a series of military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, state media reported, a narrow and strategic waterway in the Gulf.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Hamas to move forward with disarmament under his plan for postwar Gaza, and said members of his so-called “Board of Peace” had pledged $5 billion to the Palestinian territory’s reconstruction.

Investigations going on; those responsible taken into custody

The agencies partnered with California-based Valar Atomics to fly one of the company’s Ward microreactors on a C-17 aircraft — without nuclear fuel — to Hill Air Force Base in Utah.

Rubio's speech offers limited reassurance to Europeans

Oli hopes to regain control of parliament in the March 5 elections

Iran is pursuing a nuclear agreement with the US that delivers economic benefits for both sides

Iran is ready to consider compromises to reach a nuclear deal with the United States if Washington is willing to discuss lifting sanctions, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi told the BBC in an interview published yesterday.

The United Nations is “fully committed” to piling on pressure for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan, which has been devastated by nearly three years of civil war, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday.

Syria’s defence ministry said yesterday it had taken over the Al-Shadadi base in the northeast from US forces, days after assuming control of a facility near the Jordan-Iraq borders.

Ukraine’s NABU anti-corruption force said yesterday it arrested the country’s former energy minister German Galushchenko -- who resigned last year during a massive corruption scandal -- as he tried to cross Ukraine’s border.

Former US president Barack Obama criticized a lack of shame and decorum in the country’s political discourse, responding Saturday for the first time to a post on Donald Trump’s social media account that depicted him and first lady Michelle as monkeys.

China confirmed that Canadian and British citizens will be able to visit the country visa-free from tomorrow, after the two countries’ leaders had announced such agreements following official trips to Beijing.

EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas yesterday pushed back against Europe “bashing” by the United States, as she said Russia must be forced to make concessions in talks to end the Ukraine war.

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Maria Corina Machado on Saturday predicted that the leftist governments in Cuba and Nicaragua will fall once the “criminal regime” in Caracas is gone.

Motorcycle-riding gunmen swept into three villages in a central region of Nigeria, shooting dead or cutting the throats of at least 46 people, a humanitarian source told AFP on Saturday.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday she believed US President Donald Trump still desires to own Greenland despite dialling back his recent threats to seize it by force.