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.

China's foreign ministry said the two sides have maintained "sound cooperation in the fields of meteorology, water resources and disaster prevention and mitigation".

Iran attacked US military targets in the Middle East on Monday 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

933 workers missing from hydropower projects in flood-hit region

Chinese state media earlier confirmed 16 dead and 546 people missing in Tibet following Wednesday's disaster, taking the overall toll to 919 dead, and 4,793 missing

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami orders scientific surveys, sensors and stronger early-warning systems

Last year, a US appeals court refused to allow Mohammed and two of his co-defendants to plead guilty under agreements that would have spared them the death penalty.

There was no other evidence that the Iranian energy hub was under attack.

Distraught families have packed rescue stations and hospitals in search of their missing relatives, while others have faced the grim task of identifying bodies at overflowing morgues

Tehran's powerful Revolutionary Guards said they struck two US military air bases with ballistic missiles in Washington-allied Jordan, causing "heavy damage."

People in Canada will still see the body of water labeled Lake Ontario, the Indigenous-rooted name used since the 17th century, on their devices and computers, the US-based tech giant said

China says it has shared information in a 'timely manner'

Pakistan’s prime minister said eight officials were suspended and called for criminal proceedings against them, after 14 infants were killed in a fire in the maternity ward of a hospital in the country’s capital.

Iceland voted ‘No’ to resuming membership negotiations with the European Union (EU), final referendum results showed yesterday, dealing a heavy blow to Brussels which had been keen to welcome a new wealthy member.

At least seven people died and 23 were missing after a ferry carrying around 270 passengers and crew capsized off North Cyprus yesterday, leaving survivors clinging to its overturned hull.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei urged Muslim countries, particularly those in the Gulf, to unite against what he called their “real enemy” and said divisions among Muslims served the interests of their adversaries.

The floods in the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers have exposed a striking gap in the country’s emergency response.