France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his govern-ment resigned yesterday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in modern French history and deepening the country’s political crisis.

Israel yesterday said it deported 171 more activists who were detained while taking part in an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg.

Rescuers in Nepal and India yesterday scrambled to deliver emergency aid after days of torrential rain triggered landslides and floods that have killed more than 70 people, officials said.

Gold prices touched an all-time high on Monday, soaring above the $3,900-per-ounce level, as investors flocked to safe-haven bullion amid the US government shutdown, broader economic uncertainty, and prospects of further Federal Reserve rate cuts.

A rift within Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition is emerging as a flashpoint in efforts to end the war in Gaza, threatening to derail a US push to reshape the political landscape of the Middle East.

The other party to the trial, a father and son, were also shot

UN health agency says e-cigarettes are fueling a new wave of nicotine addiction

Court finds Janjaweed commander guilty of rape, murder and torture during 2003–2004 atrocities

Mediators from Egypt and Qatar push forward US-backed proposal

ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric said in a statement

Talks were set to begin as the war reaches its two-year mark with the majority of 2.2 million Gazans homeless and hungry in a sea of rubble

This is more than a quarter of our entire workforce, its chief says

Her agent said in a statement Monday

India has faced scrutiny for the quality of its pharmaceutical exports

The Chinese embassy in Manila hired a marketing firm that ran fake social media accounts praising China, undermining the Philippines’ security alliance with the US, and criticising Western COVID vaccines, Reuters found.

A short circuit was the primary cause of the fire

No tangible signs of negotiations have emerged between congressional leaders since Trump met with them last week.

The ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut followed a joint lawsuit by California and Oregon seeking to block the extraordinary move

The gunman was firing from his property at random at passing cars and police

As of Sunday, 350 trekkers had reached the small township of Qudang