Milestone meeting marks first appearance together in public

Heavy rain triggered the disaster on Sunday

Quake kills over 1,400, injures over 3,100, say Taliban

The UN said Tuesday an earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that has killed over 900 people could impact "hundreds of thousands" and warned of an "exponential" rise in casualties

In a swift move, Nespresso CEO Philipp Navratil was appointed to take over by his fellow board members.

The move comes as Russia seeks to expand its energy ties with China, its largest trading partner, after losing significant market share in Europe due to sanctions following the 2022 Ukraine conflict.

The visa exemption will be for a period of a year from September 15, with entry to China of no more than 30 days.

At least six people have been killed since protests erupted last week

Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution declaring Israel’s "policies and actions in Gaza" had met the legal definition set out in Article II of the 1948 UN convention on genocide

The smell of death mingled with the sound of wailing women and scraping shovels as rescuers and residents desperately tried to find anyone still alive

The landslide struck on August 31 after days of heavy rainfall, the group led by Abdelwahid Mohamed Nour said in a statement.

One of Afghanistan’s worst earthquakes killed more than 800 people and injured at least 2,800, authorities said yesterday, as rescuers struggled to reach remote areas due to rough mountainous terrain and inclement weather.

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday urged the government to prioritise women’s full participation in climate decision-making and address gaps in climate finance.

A Pakistan government helicopter crashed in the north of the country yesterday, killing all five people on board, police said.

India will send teams to monitor a general election in war-torn Myanmar that is scheduled to start in December, Myanmar state media said yesterday, as New Delhi signals support for a vote that has already been derided by critics as a sham.

Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou has overtaken Tokyo-Yokohama to become the world’s top cluster for innovation, the United Nations said yesterday.

US President Donald Trump’s ultimate aim in sending troops to American cities is to seize control of elections in 2026, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said Sunday, calling such deployments “an invasion.”

India’s Narendra Modi told Vladimir Putin yesterday that India and Russia stood side by side even in difficult times after the Kremlin chief called the Indian prime minister his “dear friend” and gave him a lift in his armoured limousine.

A plane carrying EU chief Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming as it readied to land in Bulgaria on Sunday, Brussels said yesterday, alleging Russia was thought to be behind the incident.

South Korea has stopped broadcasting propaganda radio programming into the North, the defence ministry said yesterday, the latest move by Seoul’s new administration to ease tensions with its nuclear-armed neighbour.