"Thousands of citizens have lost their homes, families, loved ones and property," he said.

The central bank was ready to inject up to $2 billion into the foreign exchange market to calm recent volatility, Hemmati said, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

At least 987 people killed in Nepal, while 16 deaths confirmed in Tibet

In Tibet, a digital crackdown followed the deadly flood that has devastated communities along the China-Nepal border. Censors erased viral footage while Chinese state media flooded platforms with official content.

Asked about a Wall Street Journal report that Driscoll had resigned, White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly did not deny it

Accountant's warning gives school about 14 minutes to evacuate

The huge wave of freezing water and debris, sparked by a glacial collapse on the China-Nepal border, killed at least 939 people and left nearly 4,500 missing, with Kathmandu warning reconstruction costs could run into the "billions of dollars"

After six months of war, the foes remain at an impasse, with Iran keeping the strategic Strait of Hormuz closed and the US persisting with a counter-blockade of Iranian ports

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the deaths in a press conference, saying that the second victim was in stable condition in a hospital

Russian drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the surrounding region stretched into the fifth day yesterday, with near round-the-clock air raid sirens disrupting daily life for millions.

The leaders of Russia, China, Turkey, India and Iran were in Kyrgyzstan yesterday for a two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which seeks to be a counterbalance to the West.

When Ram Budha left his younger brother Praveen at their workplace in Rasuwa on Tuesday and returned to Kathmandu, neither imagined it would be their last meeting.

Representatives of Libya’s rival political groups signed on Sunday a UN-backed agreement that was presented as a step towards holding much-delayed national elections in the deeply divided country.

Rescuers were yesterday still hunting for survivors a day after a ferry capsized off Northern Cyprus, leaving eight dead and more than a dozen missing, authorities said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan yesterday said that a roadmap was being worked on for the process of other countries joining the joint defence pact established earlier this month by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

Nepal’s rescue teams, helped by Chinese and Indian experts, yesterday stepped up efforts to reach hundreds of people believed to be stuck inside blocked hydropower project tunnels in the aftermath of last week’s Himalayan flood that carved a trail of destruction in the country’s valley towns and villages as well as across the border in China.

Italy yesterday said it would extend by 15 days border checks with Spain put in place on August 1 after tens of thousands of migrants entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

India must uphold a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan it suspended amid bilateral tensions and must limit work on a hydroelectric plant it is building in the Kashmir region, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague said yesterday.

Iran attacked US military targets in the Middle East yesterday in retaliation for American strikes on an island in the Strait of Hormuz, the first exchange of fire for a month in a war that has engulfed the region.

Sri Lanka’s former finance minister Ravi Karunanayake was arrested yesterday for allegedly using state funds to pay his private employees, the country’s main anti-corruption body said.