The Swiss, feeling the impact of global warming on their rapidly melting glaciers, yesterday backed a new climate bill aimed at steering their country towards carbon neutrality by 2050.

Two people were killed and 28 are missing in major flooding and landslides caused by monsoon rains in eastern Nepal, authorities said yesterday.

Pakistan authorities arrested 10 alleged human traffickers days after dozens of migrants drowned off the coast of Greece, officials said yesterday.

Thailand’s caretaker government was preparing to host talks with the foreign minister of Myanmar’s military junta today, a day later than planned, as key Southeast Asian nations signalled they would stay away from the divisive meeting.

Nato yesterday underlined the “unwavering” commitment of its KFOR peacekeeping force to its duties in Kosovo as tensions flare with pressure building on Serbia over the detention of three Kosovo police officers.

The start of a 72-hour ceasefire aimed at calming more than two months of conflict between rival Sudanese military factions brought a lull in clashes in Khartoum early yesterday following battles and air strikes overnight, residents said.

President Joe Biden on Saturday appealed to blue-collar workers to support his re-election quest and help him compel the richest Americans to pay more taxes.

Russia yesterday reported fierce fighting on three sections of the front line in Ukraine, a day after hosting an African peace mission that failed to spark enthusiasm from either Moscow or Kyiv.

Iraq yesterday unveiled a 2,800-year-old stone tablet returned by Italy, as the war-ravaged country works to recover from abroad antiquities looted from its territory.

Fresh off Donald Trump’s 37-count indictment, several top Republicans, including presidential contenders Mike Pence and Asa Hutchinson, criticised the former US president’s handling of classified information yesterday.

The Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia on Sunday announced that Monday will mark the first day of Dhu Al Hijjah, after sighting the crescent moon

Mexican authorities found 129 migrants packed into the back of a cargo truck, the National Institute of Migration said on Saturday

At least 11 people have been killed in Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul after an extra-tropical cyclone struck the region on Friday, according to the state's authorities

Three people, including two members of the military, were killed Saturday when their light aircraft crashed in a hilly region in the south of France, the army and regional prosecutor said

Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in China on Sunday on the highest-level trip by a US official in nearly five years, with the rival powers looking to lower the temperature after soaring tensions

Militants linked to the Islamic State group massacred at least 37 people and abducted six others in western Uganda, the army said yesterday, in the country’s worst such attack in years.

Eight people have died in the third heatwave to hit Mexico since mid-April, the country’s health ministry said on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned there is a “serious danger” of NATO being drawn further into the Ukraine war if members of the alliance continue to supply military weaponry to Kyiv.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan arrived in Iran yesterday amid a rapprochement between the two Middle East arch-foes, Iranian state TV said.

Spanish charity Open Arms said it rescued 117 migrants yesterday crowded onto a precarious wooden boat from Libya in the latest such perilous crossing over the Mediterranean sea.