Sri Lanka will host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week, an official said yesterday, as Colombo grapples with the competing interests of its powerful northern neighbour and China, its largest lender.

Turkish police have detained more than 1,100 people, including journalists, since the arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival sparked the country’s worst unrest in years, a minister said yesterday.

Egypt has put forward a new proposal aimed at restoring the Gaza ceasefire deal, security sources told Reuters yesterday, as Palestinian health authorities said Israeli strikes have killed at least 65 people in the enclave in the past 24 hours.

US and Russian officials yesterday began talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at making progress towards a broad ceasefire in Ukraine with Washington eyeing a separate Black Sea maritime ceasefire deal before securing a wider agreement.

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called a snap election for April 28, saying he needed a strong mandate to deal with the threat posed by US President Donald Trump, who “wants to break us so America can own us.”

Children under 15 accounted for 4.3 percent of new and relapsed cases of tuberculosis in the WHO’s European region in 2023, 10 percent more than in the previous 12 months, a report said yesterday.

It was not immediately clear why the journalists were detained.

Both sides have proposed different plans for temporary ceasefires, but cross-border attacks have meanwhile continued unabated.

Four people have been killed so far, with officials warning that high winds and rising temperatures were hindering efforts to put out the blazes.

A plane carrying the deportees touched down early Monday at Maiquetia International Airport outside the capital Caracas.

Trump has riled his northern neighbor by repeatedly dismissing its borders as artificial, and urging it to join the United States as the 51st state.

Imamoglu's wife warned the authorities they would face a reckoning

Rafah, in southern Gaza, had already been the target of a major Israeli offensive about a year ago.

US President Donald Trump is pushing for a rapid end to the three-year war and hopes talks in Riyadh could pave the way for a breakthrough.

On Monday, the Constitutional Court overturned his impeachment, restoring his powers to serve as leade

Legal advocacy groups sounded alarms on Saturday after US President Donald Trump threatened new actions against lawyers and law firms that bring immigration lawsuits and other cases against the government that he deems unethical.

A Turkish court yesterday jailed President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, pending trial on graft charges, in a move likely to stoke the country’s biggest protests against the government in more than a decade.

Lebanon’s health ministry said one person was killed yesterday in an Israeli drone strike, a day after the most intense escalation since a November ceasefire in the war with Hezbollah.

Pakistan’s army has killed 16 Islamist militants along the country’s western border with Afghanistan, a statement said yesterday.

Houthi rebel media in Yemen accused the United States Saturday of attacking the airport in Hodeida, the latest such claim since Washington announced heavy strikes against the rebels one week ago.