Indian and Chinese troops yesterday exchanged boxes of sweets at two points on their contested high-altitude border on the occasion of Diwali, a week after the leaders of the Asian rivals held a rare meeting.

Donald Trump has seized on isolated irregularities caught by US election officials to claim “cheating” has occurred, amplifying expectations that he will again reject results if he loses next week’s vote.

UN food agencies yesterday warned of deadly hunger levels in 16 “hunger hotspots” in coming months, with Palestinian territories, Sudan and South Sudan, Mali and Haiti of most concern.

Spanish authorities yesterday told people in flood-stricken regions to stay at home as rescuers raced to find survivors in the rare disaster that has left at least 158 dead.

Spanish authorities yesterday told people in flood-stricken regions to stay at home as rescuers raced to find survivors in the rare disaster that has left at least 158 dead.

A Hezbollah attack on northern Israel’s Metula killed five people including an Israeli farmer and four foreign workers, Israel’s Channel 12 reported yesterday as Lebanon said Israeli strikes killed six health workers in the country’s south.

To be fairer to himself, Trump might want to dial the calendar back a year to 2019, but even then the record is mixed. If one thing stands out about now versus then it is how similar many aspects of the economy look, a testament, many economists feel, to the success of the largely bipartisan effort to keep a health catastrophe from becoming an economic one.

The missile was launched on a sharply lofted trajectory from an area near the North's capital and splashed down about 300 km (190 miles) west of Japan's Hokkaido, recording the North's longest ever ICBM flight time.

The Philippines, with a population of 120 million, generates some 1.7 million metric tons of post-consumer plastic waste a year, according to the World Bank.

Over a million passengers were affected by the industrial action, which saw over 1,800 trains canceled, according to Trenes Argentinos, the state-owned rail operator in Buenos Aires.

Two of the pigs tested negative for bird flu, while results are pending for the other two. The infected pig showed no signs of illness, according to the agency.

Trump -- who, unlike Harris, has recently called his political opponents "garbage" in public -- was on hand to exploit the misstep with a photo op, climbing into a garbage truck at an airport in Wisconsin and answering questions from reporters.

Kong-rey was packing wind gusts of nearly 250 kilometres per hour (155 miles per hour), according to the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

The 6.0 magnitude quake was located on a fault line underneath the Pacific Ocean, 173 miles (279 kilometers) from the city of Bandon in the state of Oregon

Iran said yesterday that its production of missiles remained intact, following Israeli air strikes targeting military facilities last week.

A team of archaeologists has discovered more than 6,000 ancient Mayan structures hidden by vegetation in the southeastern Mexican state of Campeche, including a city of pyramids they have dubbed “Valeriana.”

The UN Security Council yesterday expressed “grave concern” over the Israeli parliament’s adoption of a bill banning UNRWA, the main United Nations aid agency working with Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

US President Joe Biden came under fire Tuesday for appearing to refer to Republican Donald Trump’s supporters as “garbage” during an election campaign call.

A series of Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 20 people yesterday, medics said.

India and China have completed pulling back their troops from two face-off points on their disputed Himalayan frontier as planned, an Indian defence official said yesterday.