The floods in the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers have exposed a striking gap in the country’s emergency response.

Russia’s defence ministry yesterday said it was gearing up for large-scale attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a tit-for-tat response to strikes by Kyiv.

Days after a wall of water and debris ripped through Nepal, Shanti Lamichhane sat on a fruit crate in the dirt where her village once stood, staring at what remained of her home.

An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, in the central Gaza Strip yesterday, health officials said.

Top officials from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan will gather in Istanbul today for a first committee meeting under the joint defence accord that they signed this month, a Turkish foreign ministry source said.

Rescuers in Nepal and China yesterday battled through leg-sucking mud and the threat of rain, rising rivers and a newly formed lake to search for thousands missing after a glacier collapse unleashed a catastrophic mudslide across the Himalayas.

Pakistan’s prime minister said eight officials were suspended and called for criminal proceedings against them, after 14 infants were killed in a fire in the maternity ward of a hospital in the country’s capital.

Iceland voted ‘No’ to resuming membership negotiations with the European Union (EU), final referendum results showed yesterday, dealing a heavy blow to Brussels which had been keen to welcome a new wealthy member.

At least seven people died and 23 were missing after a ferry carrying around 270 passengers and crew capsized off North Cyprus yesterday, leaving survivors clinging to its overturned hull.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei urged Muslim countries, particularly those in the Gulf, to unite against what he called their “real enemy” and said divisions among Muslims served the interests of their adversaries.

Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were seized in Caracas during a US military operation in January

Vessel had been carrying a total of 267 people, says Unal Ustel, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Yiannopoulos was a vocal supporter ​of Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign

As state agencies embrace digital mapping, drones and AI for disaster coordination, rescuers on the ground remain short of specialised equipment and effective early warning systems

Canada says it is talking with many countries ahead of a charter signing that its lead negotiator for the DSRB, Isabelle Hudon, said on the sidelines of July's Farnborough Airshow was planned for the autumn.

Icelanders have voted to stay out of the European Union, broadcaster RUV reported on Sunday, rejecting a government push to reopen membership talks and siding with those who said Iceland's fishing waters were too important to risk

Pakistan's prime minister said eight officials were suspended and called for criminal proceedings against them, after 14 infants were killed in a fire in the maternity ward of a hospital in the country's capital

Khamenei, in power since his father Ali Khamenei was killed at the start of the war on February 28, has yet to be seen in public since his appointment, and authorities have not released any video or audio of him.

Cantonal police in Aargau said a manhunt is underway and they appealed to the public for any film or pictures of the incident, which the mass-market Blick tabloid said had occurred at a rave party in the hippodrome.

The nationality breakdown was the first from the Chinese side since the collapse of a glacier on Wednesday unleashed a torrent of ice, rock, mud and debris down Himalayan rivers.