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

Photographer-activist Shahidul Alam yesterday urged the international community to show collective courage and help ensure the success of the Gaza-bound freedom flotilla.

US President Donald Trump authorized deployment of troops to Chicago after a federal agent shot an allegedly armed motorist there on Saturday, while a judge blocked the Republican leader’s attempt to send the military into Portland, another Democratic-run city.

The ocean hidden under the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus harbours complex organic molecules, a study said yesterday, offering further evidence that the small world could have all the right ingredients to host extraterrestrial life.

Efforts to end the conflict in Gaza gained momentum, with rival parties and mediators scheduled to meet in Cairo today, even as Israeli airstrikes continued across the territory, killing 19 more people.

The death toll from an Indonesian school collapse rose to 45 yesterday, officials said, as rescuers recovered more victims buried under the rubble.

UK police are to be given greater powers to restrict protests as a minister said repeated large-scale pro-Palestinian demonstrations had caused “considerable fear” for the Jewish community.

Iran’s top diplomat yesterday said that cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog was no longer relevant following the reimposition of international sanctions on the Islamic republic.

Russian strikes on Ukraine yesterday killed five people and badly damaged energy infrastructure, temporarily severing power supplies to tens of thousands and prompting neighbouring Poland to put ground defence on high alert.

Landslides and floods triggered by heavy downpours in Nepal and neighbouring India have killed more than 60 people, officials said yesterday, as rescue workers raced to reach cut-off communities in remote mountainous terrain.

The assembly's formation is set to consolidate the power of Sharaa

They marched to mark what organisers said was "two years of genocide" in Gaza.

In its response to the Trump plan, Hamas had insisted it should have a say in the territory's future

ICE agents fired pepper spray and loaded rubber bullets as part of heated exchanges with protesters on Saturday

Oregon lawsuit claims Trump's deployment violates state rights

Flotilla activists deported from Israel arrive in Istanbul

Photographer-activist Shahidul Alam, the only Bangladeshi aboard the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla, said their mission is not to risk lives but to challenge what he termed “an illegal blockade” and stand in solidarity with journalists and health workers under attack.

International activists who arrived in Istanbul after being deported from Israel following the military’s interception of their Gaza-bound flotilla yesterday said they had been subjected to violence and “treated like animals”.

Thousands rallied in Georgia yesterday, heeding the opposition’s call to protest local elections with a “last chance” demonstration to save democracy.

Czechs finished voting Saturday in a general election in which the party of self-described “Trumpist” billionaire Andrej Babis is a frontrunner, triggering concerns about Prague’s support for Ukraine and future ties with the European Union.