US Vice President Kamala Harris leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 5 percentage points in an NBC News poll released on Sunday that found that respondents have come to see her more favorably since she emerged as the Democratic candidate for president.

Police arrested Tanzania’s top opposition figures yesterday, their party and police said, as the authorities moved to block a mass protest in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.

Ukrainian shelling killed three people, including a child, in a Russian border village, the provincial governor said yesterday..Border settlements in both Russia and Ukraine have been subjected to near daily shelling and drone attacks since Moscow launched its full-scale military offensive

Pakistan has picked Lieutenant-General Muhammad Asim Malik as the new director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), its top spy agency, according to a security source and a local TV channel, the first change in the key post since 2021.

UN Secretary General António Guterres launched a two-day, climate-themed “Summit for the Future” on Sunday evening as part of the UN General Assembly, where some leaders warned of growing mistrust between nations as climate-fueled disasters mount.

India’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi took charge as the eighth Chief Minister of Delhi yesterday after taking the oath of office on Saturday.

Sri Lanka’s first leftist president was sworn in to office yesterday and vowed to restore public faith in politics, but said he had no magic solution to the hardships suffered following an unprecedented economic crisis.

Senegal’s navy has recovered at least 30 bodies from a boat discovered adrift around 70 kilometres off the coast of the capital Dakar, the army said yesterday.

India has invited political and military opponents of Myanmar’s ruling junta to attend a seminar in New Delhi, sources said, a significant move by the South Asian power that has maintained ties with the top generals shunned by Western nations.

The number of migrants arriving in Britain by crossing the Channel in small boats has topped 25,000 since the start of the year, provisional figures showed yesterday.

Israel launched airstrikes against hundreds of Hezbollah targets yesterday, killing 356 people and sending tens of thousands fleeing for safety on Lebanon’s deadliest day in decades, according to authorities.

At least four migrants died when their boat sank on Monday off the Greek island of Samos, the Greek coastguard said

The United States is sending a small number of additional troops to the Middle East given escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah, the Pentagon said on Monday, declining to specify the precise number or mission of the deployed forces

One of the security officials said a large-scale operation is underway by the IRGC to inspect all devices, not just communication equipment. He said most of these devices were either homemade or imported from China and Russia.

Responding to a question on whether he would run again if he lost, the 78-year-old former president told US news program "Full Measure": "No, I don't. I think that that will be, that will be it. I don't see that at all."

Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem said, "We have entered a new phase, the title of which is the open-ended battle of reckoning"

Israel and Hezbollah exchanged heavy fire into yesterday, with Israeli warplanes carrying out the most intense bombardment in almost a year of conflict across Lebanon’s south and Hezbollah firing rockets deep into northern Israel.

The developments in Bangladesh came up during discussions between US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the former’s personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware, yesterday.

A century-old artillery round weighing nearly 300 kilogrammes (660 pounds), was safely removed yesterday from a construction site near the Serbian Parliament in Belgrade, police said.

Sri Lanka elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president yesterday, putting faith in the 55-year-old’s pledge to fight corruption and bolster a fragile economic recovery following its worst financial crisis in decades.