Russian state media outlet RT, which the United States has accused of trying to influence its presidential election, will continue to work in the West by going around any limits or sanctions, its editor-in-chief said yesterday.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz yesterday called for diplomatic efforts to be intensified to achieve peace in Ukraine “more quickly”, as the war grinds through its third year.

The US presidential race remains neck-and-neck according to polls released yesterday, two days before Kamala Harris and Donald Trump hold their first -- and potentially only -- televised debate.

A truck driver shot dead three Israeli guards at a border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan yesterday before being “eliminated”, Israel’s military said, as it pounded Gaza with new strikes.

Indian rescuers yesterday pulled out eight bodies from the wreckage of a three-storey building in the city of Lucknow, reports said, with the state minister calling the deaths “heart breaking”.

India yesterday reported that it had put a “suspected mpox case” into isolation, assuring that the world’s most populous nation had “robust measures” in place, the health ministry said in a statement.

The Labour Party has historically been allied with trade union organisations, which contribute a substantial amount to the party's income.

Bolivia has seen the largest number of wildfires since 2010 with at least 3 million hectares (7.5 million acres) burned this year according to Inpe, Brazil's space research agency that monitors fires.

A lawyer for Gonzalez Urrutia confirmed to AFP the opposition candidate had departed for Spain.

The South Asian nation is locked in a cycle of political and economic crises, dependent on IMF bailouts and loans from friendly countries to service its debt.

The shooting did not appear to be random, he told the Louisville Courier Journal, while a radio host reported that it was sparked "by two cars in an altercation."

PTI quoted officials as saying eight bodies had been pulled out, and 28 people were injured.

The United States, Qatar and Egypt have all been mediating in an effort to bring about a ceasefire in the war, which authorities in Hamas-run Gaza say has killed at least 40,939 people.

The 87-year-old pontiff led an estimated 35,000 people in prayer from Port Moresby's main stadium, the latest stop on this gruelling 12-day trip across the Asia-Pacific.

The Democratic vice president and Republican former president will face off in Philadelphia on Tuesday in their first -- and possibly only -- televised debate before what promises to be a nail-bitingly close 2024 election.

CIA Director Bill Burns and UK MI6 chief Richard Moore yesterday warned that the world order was “under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the cold war”.

Thousands of people took to the streets across France yesterday to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to appoint centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister with left-wing parties accusing him of stealing legislative elections.

A New York judge on Friday delayed former US President Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money criminal case until after the Nov 5 election, writing that he wants to avoid the unwarranted perception of a political motive.

Ukraine’s security services yesterday said they had struck a Russian ammunition factory in a border region, as Moscow’s forces claimed yet another advance on the battlefield.

Six people, including one civilian, were killed as fresh violence broke out between two warring ethnic communities in the northeast Indian state of Manipur yesterday, authorities said.