India’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi took charge as the eighth Chief Minister of Delhi yesterday after taking the oath of office on Saturday.

Sri Lanka’s first leftist president was sworn in to office yesterday and vowed to restore public faith in politics, but said he had no magic solution to the hardships suffered following an unprecedented economic crisis.

Senegal’s navy has recovered at least 30 bodies from a boat discovered adrift around 70 kilometres off the coast of the capital Dakar, the army said yesterday.

One of the security officials said a large-scale operation is underway by the IRGC to inspect all devices, not just communication equipment. He said most of these devices were either homemade or imported from China and Russia.

A century-old artillery round weighing nearly 300 kilogrammes (660 pounds), was safely removed yesterday from a construction site near the Serbian Parliament in Belgrade, police said.

Leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the United States expanded joint security steps in Asia’s trade-rich waters as outgoing US President Joe Biden hosted counterparts from the Quad grouping established due to shared concerns about China.

The United Nations yesterday adopted a “Pact for the Future” aimed at addressing sprawling 21st-century challenges ranging from conflict to climate change and human rights, despite last-minute objections from a group of countries led by Russia.

A roadside bomb hit a convoy of foreign diplomats visiting northwest Pakistan yesterday, killing a police officer in their security detail, police said.

Donald Trump on Saturday rejected a second debate against Kamala Harris before the November 5 election, saying it was “too late” with early voting underway in some states.

A mass shooting involving several assailants has left at least four people dead and dozens wounded in the US state of Alabama, police said on Saturday night.

A gas explosion in a coal mine in Iran’s South Khorasan Province killed at least 51 people and injured 20, Iran’s state media said yesterday.

France unveiled a new government on Saturday evening that aims to strike a fine balance between right-wingers and centrists, as Prime Minister Michel Barnier hopes to break political deadlock following snap elections that delivered a hung parliament.

Global news channel Al Jazeera said armed and masked Israeli forces raided its office in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank yesterday and issued a 45-day closure order.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, which has been exchanging fire with Israel for months, yesterday announced that two commanders of its elite operations unit had been killed by an Israeli strike on Beirut, which authorities said left 37 people dead.

With more than a month before the November 5 presidential election, some Americans are already lining up to cast their ballots in this tightly contested race.

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka goes to polls today to pick its next president in an effective referendum on an unpopular International Monetary Fund austerity plan enacted after the island nation’s unprecedented financial crisis.

Artillery shells sold by Indian arms makers have been diverted by European customers to Ukraine and New Delhi has not intervened to stop the trade despite protests from Moscow, according to eleven Indian and European government and defence industry officials, as well as a Reuters analysis of commercially available customs data.

Longer and more frequent heatwaves, soaring demand for air conditioning, and widespread disease: life in cities would become unbearable should the planet keep warming at current rates, researchers warned yesterday.

A US court’s summons to the Indian government over Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun’s civil suit, alleging a plot to murder him, was “completely unwarranted”, India’s Ministry of External Affairs said.

The mass pager attack against Hezbollah in Lebanon has turned the spotlight on Israel’s secretive Unit 8200, the Israel Defense Forces’ intelligence unit, which a Western security source said was involved in planning the operation.