Representatives of Libya’s rival political groups signed on Sunday a UN-backed agreement that was presented as a step towards holding much-delayed national elections in the deeply divided country.

Rescuers were yesterday still hunting for survivors a day after a ferry capsized off Northern Cyprus, leaving eight dead and more than a dozen missing, authorities said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan yesterday said that a roadmap was being worked on for the process of other countries joining the joint defence pact established earlier this month by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

Nepal’s rescue teams, helped by Chinese and Indian experts, yesterday stepped up efforts to reach hundreds of people believed to be stuck inside blocked hydropower project tunnels in the aftermath of last week’s Himalayan flood that carved a trail of destruction in the country’s valley towns and villages as well as across the border in China.

Italy yesterday said it would extend by 15 days border checks with Spain put in place on August 1 after tens of thousands of migrants entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

India must uphold a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan it suspended amid bilateral tensions and must limit work on a hydroelectric plant it is building in the Kashmir region, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague said yesterday.

Iran attacked US military targets in the Middle East yesterday in retaliation for American strikes on an island in the Strait of Hormuz, the first exchange of fire for a month in a war that has engulfed the region.

Sri Lanka’s former finance minister Ravi Karunanayake was arrested yesterday for allegedly using state funds to pay his private employees, the country’s main anti-corruption body said.

Russian drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the surrounding region stretched into the fifth day yesterday, with near round-the-clock air raid sirens disrupting daily life for millions.

China's foreign ministry said the two sides have maintained "sound cooperation in the fields of meteorology, water resources and disaster prevention and mitigation".

Iran attacked US military targets in the Middle East on Monday in retaliation for American strikes on an island in the Strait of Hormuz, the first exchange of fire for a month in a war that has engulfed the region

933 workers missing from hydropower projects in flood-hit region

Chinese state media earlier confirmed 16 dead and 546 people missing in Tibet following Wednesday's disaster, taking the overall toll to 919 dead, and 4,793 missing

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami orders scientific surveys, sensors and stronger early-warning systems

Last year, a US appeals court refused to allow Mohammed and two of his co-defendants to plead guilty under agreements that would have spared them the death penalty.

There was no other evidence that the Iranian energy hub was under attack.

Distraught families have packed rescue stations and hospitals in search of their missing relatives, while others have faced the grim task of identifying bodies at overflowing morgues

Tehran's powerful Revolutionary Guards said they struck two US military air bases with ballistic missiles in Washington-allied Jordan, causing "heavy damage."

People in Canada will still see the body of water labeled Lake Ontario, the Indigenous-rooted name used since the 17th century, on their devices and computers, the US-based tech giant said

China says it has shared information in a 'timely manner'