LIMA: At least five people were killed and 28 others injured after two buses collided in north Peru's La Libertad region, the National Police of Peru (PNP) said.

TEHRAN: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will depart for New York on Sunday to attend and deliver a speech at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 79), the official news agency.

LISBON: Wildfires are continuing to ravage central and northern Portugal while at least seven people have been killed and more than 40 injured, local authorities reported.

ATHENS: Four people were slightly injured as a fire broke out at the Motor Oil refinery complex near the city of Corinth, 70 km west of Athens, local authorities said.

NEW DELHI: US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said at a campaign event that he will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week, media reports said.

RAMALLAH: Gaza's Health Ministry has identified 34,344 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in the territory, publishing a list of names, age, gender and ID numbers that cover more than 80 per cent of Palestinians killed in the war so far, Ministry officials said.

WASHINGTON: US Vice-President Kamala Harris has said that she supports the decision in May this year made by President Joe Biden to withhold a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs from Israel but reiterated her support for Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas.

BEIRUT: Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel after pagers used by its members exploded across Lebanon simultaneously, killing at least nine people and leaving almost 3,000 injured in a dramatic and unprecedented attack at a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East.

WASHINGTON: The US was "not involved" in the series of pager explosions in Lebanon and was "not aware" of any attack in advance, said a State Department spokesperson

BEIRUT: At least nine people were killed and 2,800 others, including Hezbollah fighters and medics were injured on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, security sources and the Lebanese Health Minister said.

CAIRO: Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has urged the withdrawal of the Israeli army from the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing and the Philadelphi Corridor.

NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday dispatched a consignment of 1,000 metric tonnes of rice to Namibia as humanitarian aid to address the food security needs of the drought-stricken African nation.

NEW DELHI: Several leading Islamic scholars, diplomats and politicians have severely condemned the remarks made by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the "suffering" of Muslims in Gaza, Myanmar, and India.

FREETOWN: At least eight people were killed after a seven-story building collapsed in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) of Sierra Leone confirmed.

YANGON: Myanmar authorities have seized large amounts of narcotic drugs in the regions of Yangon and Mandalay, the local media reported on Tuesday.

NIAMEY: Eight people died on the spot and another succumbed to injuries at a local hospital following two road accidents in Niger.

BAKU: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev spoke to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the peace efforts between Azerbaijan and Armenia and the upcoming COP29 climate conference, the Azerbaijani president's press service said.

LISBON: Wildfires in Portugal's Aveiro district have claimed two lives and prompted the mobilisation of over 1,200 firefighters.

SAO PAULO: At least five people were missing and four others were rescued after a cargo ship sank off the coast of the Brazilian northeastern state of Pernambuco, local media reported.

LIMA: At least 15 people were killed in Peru due to the serious forest fires occurring in various parts of the country.

NEW YORK: Former US President Donald Trump has said that he will "get along well with China" and did not think that nations and others like Russia are the "enemies" that President Biden's administration considers them.

NEW DELHI: Indian and the US officials held the US-India 2+2 Intersessional Dialogue and discussions covered bilateral strategic and defence priorities as well as regional and global issues, an official statement said.

GANDHINAGAR: Germany's Development Minister Svenja Schulze, who is on a three-day visit to Gujarat to represent her country at the 4th Global Renewable Energy Investor's (RE-INVEST) meet here, has said that the problems of the world cannot be solved without India's involvement.

UTTAR PRADESH: Four persons, including a three-year-old girl and a woman, were killed after an explosion occurred at a firecracker godown-cum-factory in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district, police said on Tuesday.

JERUSALEM: Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday told his American counterpart that time was running out for a diplomatic solution to prevent a full-scale war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

PRAGUE: One person was dead and another seven went missing due to floods caused by extreme rainfall in the Czech Republic, police said on Monday.

TOKYO: Former Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko has emerged as the top choice to lead the opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) ahead of the crucial party election scheduled for September 23, two separate polls conducted by Kyodo News and Yomiuri Shimbun have indicated.

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has expressed his deepest sympathy to Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam over the heavy casualties and property damage caused by Typhoon Yagi and massive floods.

ANKARA: At least three people were killed and eight others injured in a traffic accident in Turkey on Monday, reports said.

WELLINGTON: New Zealand has released a draft critical minerals list, which is said to be essential to the economy and mineral resilience, for consultation.

BAGHDAD: Three Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk, a police source said.

SEOUL: A 35-tonne fishing vessel capsized off the coast near Gunsan, a southwestern port city in North Jeolla Province, resulting in the deaths of three people onboard, the Korea Coast Guard said on Monday.

DHAKA: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it will help the Bangladeshi interim government's efforts for vital structural reforms in the country.

BENGALURU: Karnataka Leader of Opposition (LoP) R. Ashoka has alleged that pro-Pakistan slogans were raised during the Ganesh Visarjan procession violence in Nagamangala town of Mandya district and demanded a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe in the series of similar incidents.