A United Nations committee yesterday voiced concern about recurring racist violence in Britain following the recent anti-immigration riots, and called for measures to curb “racist hate speech” by politicians.

The United Arab Emirates has accepted the credentials of an ambassador from Afghanistan’s Taliban government, officials said, becoming just the second country after China to do so.

Lebanon’s health ministry said yesterday Israeli strikes killed seven people including a child in different parts of the south, with Hezbollah saying three of its fighters were among the dead.

Bankrupt Sri Lanka will offer hefty salary increases and higher pensions to civil servants, President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office said yesterday just weeks before September 21 polls in which he is seeking re-election.

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.

A nine-month-old baby girl and her mother were among 10 migrants who died when their boat capsized crossing a river that divides Serbia and Bosnia, rescuers told AFP as a search continued today.

The death toll from floods in Tripura, caused by relentless heavy rains, has risen to 22.

Rescuers scoured the Thai jungle today for nine missing people after a turboprop plane crashed southeast of capital Bangkok, though authorities expected no survivors.

Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago on Thursday before a rapturous crowd, pledging a "new way forward" if she beats Republican Donald Trump in November's blockbuster election.

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have announced the codification of laws detailing rules of behaviour and lifestyle based on their strict interpretation of Islamic law.

The Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) yesterday decided to end its 11-day strike, called to protest against the rape and murder of a medic in Kolkata, following “positive directions” from the Supreme Court.

Indian authorities in Assam state have introduced a bill that would require Muslims to register their marriages and divorces, with the chief minister claiming the measure will help stop child marriage.

Thailand yesterday confirmed Asia’s first known case of a new, deadlier strain of mpox in a patient who had travelled to the kingdom from Africa.

At least 55 governments around the world are using travel restrictions as part of their repressive tactics against perceived political opponents, according to a report released yesterday.

Ukraine conducted a drone attack on Russia’s Marinovka military airfield in the southern Russian region of Volgograd, striking a storage site for fuel and glide bombs, a security source in Kyiv said yesterday.

The number of migrants arriving in the UK by crossing the Channel on boats hit a record in the first half of 2024, interior ministry data showed yesterday.

Sri Lanka’s top court yesterday found President Ranil Wickremesinghe guilty of “unlawful conduct” for delaying by more than a year local polls seen as an unofficial referendum on his handling of the economy.

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and accompanying destroyers have arrived in the Middle East, the US military said later on Wednesday, after the country’s defense secretary ordered the strike group to accelerate its speed.

Sri Lanka's top court found President Ranil Wickremesinghe guilty of "unlawful conduct" on Thursday for delaying by more than a year local polls seen as an unofficial referendum on his handling of the economy.