Negotiators geared up for a crucial weekend of Gaza ceasefire talks yesterday, as Hamas said it was sending delegates to Cairo but would not participate in the discussions, and fighting raged in the Palestinian territory.

Protesters including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and members of Extinction Rebellion on Saturday tried to blockade of a gas and oil processing plant in southwest Norway.

Iran’s new government will seek to “manage tensions” with its arch-enemy the United States to help reduce pressure and neutralise crippling sanctions, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.

A bomb blast in southwestern Pakistan killed two children and injured 16 people yesterday, police officials said.

German police yesterday hunted a man who stabbed three people to death and wounded eight others at a street festival in the city of Solingen, with a terror motive for the attack “not excluded”.

UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, four friends and the yacht's cook died when the British-flagged Bayesian sank in a storm before dawn on Monday.

Kyiv celebrates independence from the Soviet Union as the long war with Russia has reached a dramatic moment, with Ukraine mounting the Kursk incursion and Moscow eyeing more east Ukrainian towns.

Mpox is a potentially deadly infection that causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions and spreads through close physical contact.

Despite criticism online in the past for the app, the Muzz event was attended by about 100 people.

The four-day gathering is a largely technical waypoint on the road to final negotiations in late November in South Korea's Busan.

A decision-making committee, with NASA chief Bill Nelson sitting in, will meet Saturday to weigh the tough issue.

Ocariz is one of 2,400 people detained since Nicolas Maduro's disputed reelection in Venezuela.

"I no longer believe that I have a realistic path of electoral victory," Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist who was polling in the low single digits, said at a press conference in swing state Arizona.

Three people were killed and four others seriously wounded in a stabbing attack at a festival on Friday night in the western German city of Solingen, police said

India’s Narendra Modi yesterday urged President Volodymyr Zelensky to sit down for talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine and offered to act as a friend to help bring peace as the two leaders met in wartime Kyiv.

Soldiers in lifeboats ferried people to safety in India’s northeastern state of Tripura yesterday after heavy rain triggered floods and landslides, forcing more than 65,000 people from their homes and killing 23, authorities said.

Thailand has postponed its hosting of next month’s Bimstec summit of the leaders of seven mostly South Asian countries until after a new administration is formed, its foreign ministry said yesterday.

Israeli negotiators were in Cairo yesterday for talks on a Gaza truce, a spokesman said, but a dispute over the presence of Israeli troops on Gaza’s southern border remained among sticking points.

US Vice President Kamala Harris sealed the Democratic presidential nomination with a muscular speech, laying down broad foreign policy principles and sharp contrasts with Republican rival Donald Trump with 11 weeks left in the race for the White House.

Chinese President Xi Jinping held his first conversation with new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday, emphasising that China hopes to achieve “common wins” with the United Kingdom, state broadcaster CCTV reported.