Around 100 people are unaccounted for, the national disaster agency and the provincial governor's office said, also updating the death toll from Monday's deluge. An AFP journalist saw dozens of people gathered in remote Parun, the capital of Nurist...

The Labour leader, who took over as PM on Monday, said value added tax (VAT) would be taken off bills from October in a policy costing the government about £850 million ($1.143 billion) in the current UK financial year. "We're taking immediate act...

Novartis said in a statement that sales in the period from April to June rose by three percent to $14.4 billion (12.6 billion euros), compared with the second quarter of 2025. That was slightly higher than the $14 billion forecast by analysts poll...

The agreement comes as Panama complains its boats are suffering tighter controls in China, following the cancellation of a Hong Kong company's concession to operate two ports in the Panama Canal. Following negotiations in Beijing last week, the two...

Often dubbed the world's largest living structure, the reef stretches 2,300 kilometres (nearly 1,430 miles) along the coast of Queensland state and is a major tourism draw for Australia. This month it avoided being listed as endangered, despite the...

Thousands of protesters gathered in the heart of the Indian capital on Monday, demanding Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation and wider examination reforms, in a show of force by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) online movement. The CJP has won millions...

Diplomatically isolated North Korea and Russia have rapidly expanded cooperation since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Pyongyang has sent troops to Russia's embattled Kursk region and supplied Moscow with weapons s...

The US statement came minutes after Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in the Philippines, where the 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is expected to tackle issues including civil war-torn Myanmar's ongoing pariah status. ...

Five of those countries have restrictions already in force, according to an AFP tally. Here are facts about the measures in different countries. Restrictions in place Social media has been banned for under-16s in Australia since December 2025. Bra...

The data gathered by environmental monitoring network MapBiomas will come as good news for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ahead of seeking reelection in October. Flames engulfed the world's largest tropical rainforest in 2024 when an u...