Dozens of troops and civilians were killed in a fresh round of border skirmishes between Pakistan and Afghanistan yesterday, officials on both sides of the frontier said, hours before Islamabad said the two sides had agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire.

Aid trucks rolled into Gaza yesterday and Israel resumed preparations to open the main Rafah crossing after a dispute over the return of the bodies of dead hostages that had threatened to derail the fragile ceasefire deal with Hamas.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent yesterday slammed Beijing’s rare earth export curbs as “China versus the world,” vowing that Washington and its allies would “neither be commanded nor controlled.”

The UN’s World Food Programme yesterday warned that “staggering” cuts to its funding risked pushing up to 13.7 million people currently receiving food aid into “emergency” levels of hunger -- one step before famine.

The increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere last year was the highest ever recorded, the United Nations said yesterday, calling for urgent action to slash emissions.

Unexploded ordnance in Gaza poses “enormous” risks for displaced people returning home during a US-led ceasefire, the NGO Handicap International warned Tuesday, calling for the entry of equipment needed for demining.

Petitions have been filed in Nepal’s Supreme Court challenging the formation of an interim government and the dissolution of parliament following last month’s uprising, a court official said yesterday.

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Total number of returned bodies rise to 90

Marked the biggest one-year increrase since record keeping started in 1957

Netanyahu, his wife accused of accepting more than $260,000 worth of luxury goods in exchange for political favours

Nine militants also killed, security officials say

Violence between the two neighbours has flared since explosions in Afghanistan last week

"Now we are ready to engage again", said Mohammad Shtayyeh, special envoy to President of the Palestinian Authority

WFP is facing a staggering 40 percent reduction in funding

The Trump administration has dismissed 4,108 employees since October 1

Israel will allow Gaza's key Rafah crossing to reopen on Wednesday for humanitarian aid to reach the Palestinian territory

That would spell near-term job losses in India, which accounts for 52% of the global outsourcing market.

There have been 37 executions in the United States this year, the most since 2013

The move has sent quiet shockwaves through Mexico's political elite