The worst drought in decades is gripping much of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, drying out rivers and lakes, shrivelling crops and leading to days-long tap water cutoffs in major cities.

 Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness secured a third term early Thursday following a tight race on an island shaken by corruption, inequity and economic concerns.

Argentine authorities have detained the daughter and son-in-law of Friedrich Kadgien, a financial adviser to Adolf Hitler, following the disappearance of a 17th-century painting believed to have been looted by the Nazis, prosecutors confirmed on September 2.

President Donald Trump has said the US gets along with India “very well” but the relationship was "one-sided" for many years since New Delhi was charging Washington “tremendous tariffs”.

At least 14 people have been killed and 35 others injured in a suicide bombing shortly after the conclusion of a public rally organised by the Balochistan National Party (BNP) in Quetta, according to media reports.

India on Tuesday delivered 21 tonnes of relief materials to Afghanistan as part of its assistance to earthquake-hit people of that country.

The death toll from a major earthquake in eastern Afghanistan passed 1,400 on Tuesday, with more than 3,000 people injured, Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban government spokesman, said on social platform X.

A devastating landslide wiped out a village in Sudan's western region of Darfur, killing at least 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the African country's recent history, a rebel group controlling the area said late Monday.