A Pakistani court yesterday acquitted a local man of cybercrime offences involving the spread of fake online information which fuelled riots in Britain, his lawyer said.

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said yesterday a recently ratified morality law would be enforced “gently”, after the international community and Afghans voiced concern over new restrictions.

Emissions-belching nations were challenged to stump up for climate-related damage as a key Pacific islands summit opened yesterday, with low-lying Tuvalu declaring: “If you pollute, you should pay.”

A much-anticipated US presidential debate next month appeared in doubt yesterday as Republican candidate Donald Trump questioned whether he would participate, and both camps sparred over the use of live mics.

Some 60 media and rights organisations yesterday urged the European Union to suspend a co-operation accord with Israel and impose sanctions, accusing it of “massacring journalists” in Gaza.

China said yesterday it took “control measures” against two Philippine Coast Guard ships that had entered waters near the disputed Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea.

The United Nations said Monday it had been forced to halt its humanitarian operations in Gaza due to a new Israeli evacuation order for the Deir al-Balah area, a senior UN official said

Outbreaks of mpox in Central Africa "can be stopped", the World Health Organization said on Monday, but $135 million of funding may be needed to tackle the disease's spread

Ryan Evans, who was working as a safety adviser for the agency, was killed after a missile struck the Hotel Sapphire where he was staying as part of a six-person team on Saturday

Democrat Kamala Harris has raised $540 million in little more than a month since she began her race for US president, with a surge of donations flowing in during the Democratic National Convention last week, her campaign said yesterday.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels praised attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Israel yesterday and renewed threats to launch their own assault in response to Israeli strikes on a port in Yemen.

Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early yesterday, as Israel’s military said it struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to thwart a bigger attack, in one of the biggest clashes in more than 10 months of border warfare.

Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a private jet late on Saturday and placed in custody, a police source said.

German police said yesterday that a Syrian man has given himself up and confessed to killing three people and wounding eight others in a knife rampage at a street festival.

At least 13 people have died when a migrant boat sank off Yemen, also leaving 14 missing, a UN agency said yesterday, in the latest disaster on the perilous migration route.

The Philippines and China clashed in disputed waters of the South China Sea yesterday over what Manila said was a resupply mission for fishermen, the latest in a series of sea and air confrontations in the strategic waterway.

A member of the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine was missing and two others were hospitalised after a Russian strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.

The UN mission in Afghanistan said yesterday it was “concerned” about a morality law recently ratified by the Taliban authorities, criticising in particular restrictions on women.

India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today searched the residences of RG Kar Medical College's former principal Sandip Ghosh and 14 others over alleged financial irregularities.

The companies - 42 Chinese, 63 Russian and 18 from other countries - were targeted for reasons from sending US electronics to Russian military-related parties to producing thousands of Shahed-136 drones for Russia to use in its invasion of Ukraine.