The scale is far bigger than the last similar event in May 2021 when around 12,000 crossed the border from Morocco into Ceuta in just a few days, Vivas said at the time.

The Ukrainian military struck three logistics centres across Russia as well as a sea terminal in the Krasnodar region, President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday.

A drone strike on Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta — the first attack on the country since the US‑Iran war erupted — has raised fears that American interests across the Middle East are vulnerable, analysts warn.

A blast at a coal mine killed at least 34 workers in southern Pakistan, the provincial disaster agency said yesterday, as rescuers searched for more missing miners.

Almost all the estimated 50,000 migrants who poured into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in North Africa from Morocco have now returned, Spain said yesterday.

Iran’s military said yesterday it launched drone strikes targeting US military facilities in Kuwait, as fighting resumed between Washington and Tehran in the Middle East war after a nearly week-long lull.

UN says authorities assessing safety and pollution risks

Interior ministry reports rapid departures following recent border surge

At the gates into Ceuta, Moroccan authorities deployed water cannon trucks and pushed people back

Talks focus on Strait of Hormuz and de-escalation, says Pakistan Foreign Ministry official

Israeli forces will withdraw, and the International Stabilization Force will work with a new Palestinian police force to take responsibility for Gaza, he says

France, Spain and Greece battled major wildfires yesterday as soaring temperatures, parched vegetation and powerful winds extended a summer of deadly fires, mass evacuations and mounting disruption across Europe.

A regional branch of the Islamic State group has claimed a rare deadly attack on a Taliban official in northeastern Afghanistan, a monitoring group said.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed charges against 13 people in connection with leaked question papers for the national medical college entrance test, days after youth-led protests over the scandal forced the education minister to quit.

New Zealand’s top diplomat Winston Peters drew the ire of Beijing’s ambassador in Wellington yesterday after telling a lawmaker of Chinese descent to “go back to your own country”.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is preparing a major spending push to help Republicans retain control of Congress in November’s midterm elections, Axios reported yesterday.

Japanese emergency workers searched tirelessly for survivors at a wrecked shopping mall yesterday, as the death toll from a major earthquake hit 34 and tens of thousands were left without power in punishing heat.

Israeli strikes killed at least four people, including two children, in the Gaza Strip yesterday, health officials said, as mediators held new talks with Hamas leaders to work towards full implementation of a US-brokered Gaza peace plan.

Armed militants killed nine police officers in an attack on a checkpoint in northern Pakistan on Wednesday that also left 15 of the gunmen dead in ensuing fighting, police said yesterday.

As the Iran war escalates, Gulf Arab states are turning to China—not Washington—to use its economic leverage over Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea. Their push reflects frustration that US‑Israeli strikes since February 28 have hurt Iran but also disrupted Gulf energy exports and exposed them to retaliation.