Lebanon’s health ministry said three people were killed and nine others wounded in an Israeli strike yesterday on Haret Saida, a densely populated area near the southern city of Sidon.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris appeared on the “Saturday Night Live” TV comedy show on Saturday evening, adding a surprise jolt to the US presidential election just two days before her showdown with Republican Donald Trump.

Moldovans were voting yesterday in a tense presidential election runoff that could decide whether the ex-Soviet country continues on a pro-European path or tilts back toward Russia’s influence.

Iranian demonstrators yesterday gathered outside the former US embassy in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 hostage crisis that has for decades shaped relations between Washington and Tehran.

Indian-run Jammu and Kashmir’s chief minister yesterday condemned a “deeply disturbing” grenade attack on a busy market in the main city of Srinagar, which police and media reported left several wounded.

At least 14 people, including several children, were killed in a Ugandan refugee camp when lightning hit a makeshift church where they were sheltering, local officials said yesterday.

Russia yesterday claimed to have captured another Ukrainian village, just a dozen kilometres from the key eastern logistics hub Pokrovsk, as its troops advance rapidly.

US voters this November 5 will cast ballots for members of Congress, tens of thousands of state and local officials, and in multiple referendums on topics including hot-button issues like abortion.

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Appearing in the long-running series's "cold open" -- the sketch before the opening titles -- Harris appeared as her own reflection in a dressing room mirror, joining in good-natured mockery of her laughter and playing on her own name for laughs.

Israel yesterday again carried out deadly air strikes on north Gaza, where the UN calls conditions “apocalyptic”, as Lebanon’s Hezbollah intensified rocket fire near Israel’s commercial hub of Tel Aviv, on Israel’s second front.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump enter the final weekend of the most tense US presidential campaign of modern times with a flurry of swing-state rallies that will test their stamina –- and ability to persuade the country’s last undecided voters.

Nearly 200,000 people in western Japan were urged to evacuate yesterday as authorities warned of landslides and floods, while the remnants of a tropical storm trickle over the country.

The United States said on Friday it would deploy B-52 bombers, fighter jets, refuelling aircraft and Navy destroyers to the Middle East, in a readjustment of military assets as the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group prepares to leave the region.

The deadliest flash floods in Spain’s modern history have killed at least 211 people and dozens were still unaccounted for, four days after torrential rains swept the eastern region of Valencia, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said yesterday.

India yesterday denied home minister Amit Shah had plotted to target Sikh activists on Canadian soil and said it had officially rebuked Ottawa over the “absurd and baseless” allegation.

Indian security forces killed three suspected militants in two separate firefights in disputed Kashmir, the army and a senior police official said yesterday.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said yesterday that the United States and Israel will “undoubtedly receive a crushing response” for what they do against his country, state media reported.

In the Christian town of Deir al-Ahmar, Hassan Noun has pitched his tent in a church courtyard after fleeing Israeli air strikes in the eastern Lebanese region of Baalbek.

Russia unleashed its latest overnight drone strike on Ukraine, targeting the capital Kyiv in an attack that lasted into midday and wounded at least one person, city officials said yesterday.