French Riviera authorities said yesterday they are boosting security around electricity grid sites after an overnight fire in a substation that cut power to 45,000 people, and a massive blackout during the Cannes film festival blamed on sabotage.

Syria’s new authorities have agreed to help the United States locate and return Americans who went missing in the war-ravaged country, a US envoy said yesterday, in another sign of thawing bilateral ties.

Helicopters were yesterday airdropping animal feed to farmers in Australia stranded by floods that have killed five and isolated tens of thousands in the country’s southeast.

Malaysia yesterday called for the extension and expansion of a post-earthquake ceasefire in Myanmar, as it ramped up calls for the long-awaited implementation of a five-point peace plan.

A trickle of Venezuelans lined up at the polls early yesterday to elect a new parliament and state governors in a vote that the main opposition party was boycotting in protest at last summer’s disputed reelection of President Nicolas Maduro.

The Baha'i faith, whose global headquarters is in Israel, claims more than seven million followers worldwide.

Harvard currently has nearly 7,000 international students, representing about 27% of its total enrollment.

Renationalising all of the UK's rail operators is among the key policies launched by Prime Minister Keir Starmer since his party's return to government last July following 14 years in opposition.

Mohamad's comments ahead of an ASEAN summit Monday in Kuala Lumpur come as Israel has stepped up its campaign this month in war-torn Gaza

The district was recently attacked by armed gangs, referred to locally as bandits.

The bus driver lost control of the vehicle as it carried 26 passengers from Tolima to Quindio

"I cry at night when my baby cries and her stomach aches from hunger."

A German woman accused of a mass stabbing attack that wounded 18 people at a train station in Hamburg suffers from mental illness, police said yesterday.

US President Donald Trump rekindled his trade war with the European Union on Friday by threatening 50 percent tariffs, as Brussels reacted with a call for “respect.”

Indian border troops shot dead a Pakistani man who they said had crossed the international frontier and did not stop when challenged, the force said yesterday.

Syria yesterday hailed the Trump administration’s lifting of US sanctions, as Washington looks to open a new chapter in its relations with Damascus.

A massive Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv yesterday wounded at least 15 people, even as Russia and Ukraine continued the biggest prisoner swap since the start of Moscow’s invasion.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 15 people yesterday across the Palestinian territory, where Israel has ramped up its military offensive in recent days.

Egypt has flown 71 nationals home from the Libyan capital Tripoli after deadly clashes between rival militias rocked the city earlier this month, the foreign ministry said.

Five Al-Qaeda members have been killed in a strike blamed on the United States in southern Yemen, two Yemeni security sources told AFP yesterday.