Protesters outside the National Assembly parliament shouted and clapped. “We won!” they chanted, and one demonstrator banged on a drum.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday said the ceasefire in Lebanon was “holding” despite a series of incidents between Israel and Iran-backed militants Hezbollah.

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan was booked in a murder case in connection with the death of paramilitary personnel who were run over by a speeding vehicle on the Srinagar Highway last week during a protest by the PTI.

Israeli military strikes killed at least 14 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip yesterday, most of them in the town of Beit Lahiya on the northern edge, medics said, as the army issued new evacuation orders in the south of the tiny enclave.

Top Lebanese officials have urged Washington and Paris to press Israel to uphold a ceasefire, after dozens of military operations on Lebanese soil that Beirut has deemed violations, two senior Lebanese political sources told Reuters yesterday.

"The export of gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials to the United States shall not be permitted"

"It is only when a country completely collapses, the peacekeepers are sent and the govt of the country has to request them"

Donald Trump on Monday named billionaire investment banker Warren Stephens as his pick for US ambassador to Britain

Vanuatu yesterday urged the United Nations’ top court to recognise the harm caused by climate change in its judgment on the legal obligation of countries to fight it and address the consequences of them contributing to global warming.

The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday lashed out against attacks on the court, which finds itself under the spotlight after issuing arrest warrants over wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

Nepal’s prime minister yesterday left for his first bilateral visit to China, a departure from the usual practice by the Himalayan republic’s leaders of making India their first official destination.

Sales by major arms makers were boosted last year by wars in Ukraine and Gaza and tensions in Asia, with marked increases for manufacturers based in Russia and the Middle East, a report said yesterday.

The death toll from Cyclone Fengal’s fierce push through Sri Lanka and southern India reached 20 yesterday as downpours and flooding followed the storm’s wake after its winds calmed.

At least two people were killed yesterday in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, Lebanese authorities said, as a ceasefire ending more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah appeared increasingly fragile.

The Syrian military and its ally Russia conducted deadly joint air raids on areas under Islamist-led rebel control yesterday, as they battle a lightning offensive that has wrested swathes of Syria from government control.

The United Nations said yesterday that Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world, after more than a year of Israeli offensive in the Palestinian enclave.

US President Joe Biden said on Sunday he had pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, a reversal after pledging to stay out of legal proceedings against the younger Biden who pleaded guilty to tax violations and was convicted on firearms-related charges.

"It is time for a change, starting with moving this disaster out of the shadows of international attention," they said.

It highlights concerns over excessive social media use

The hearings begin a week after developing nations denounced as woefully inadequate an agreement reached at the COP29 summit for countries to provide $300 billion in annual climate finance by 2035 to help poorer nations cope with climate change.