Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog welcomed US President Donald Trump on Monday as he arrived at Ben-Gurion International Airport.

During this, Netanyahu's wife, Sara, and Herzog's wife, Michal, were also present.

Trump is set to address the Israeli Knesset later today, after which he will travel to Egypt, where he will be joined by several international leaders for a summit on the peace process for Gaza, ending a two-year conflict.

Ahead of his arrival in Israel, Trump declared that the "war is over." He made these remarks while speaking to reporters during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One after emplaning for Israel.

More than 33 per cent of the government's online administrative services affected by a fire at a state data centre last month have been restored, officials here said on Saturday.

As of 6 a.m., 238 out of 709 services hit by the fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in the central city of Daejeon had been brought back online, marking a restoration rate of 33.6 percent, reports news agency.

The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters said the newly restored services include the privacy regulator's service that checks for personal data leaks and the labor ministry's management system for fines.

Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos has directed government agencies to immediately evacuate people in the coastal areas threatened by a tsunami after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Davao Oriental province in the southern Philippines on Friday morning.

In a statement, Marcos urged people to "stay alert and calm," and "move to higher ground and stay away from the shore until authorities declare it safe."

"I have directed the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, the Office of Civil Defence, the Armed Forces, the Philippine Coast Guard, and all concerned agencies to immediately carry out evacuations in coastal areas, activate emergency communication lines, and coordinate closely with local governments," he said.

Heavy rains and floods triggered by Typhoon Matmo have left eight people dead and five others injured in Vietnam, the Vietnam Disaster and Dyke Management Authority announced Wednesday.

Over 15,700 houses were submerged and more than 400 others damaged, while over 14,600 hectares of rice and other crops were inundated, the agency said.

More than 97,000 livestock and poultry were killed or swept away, while flooding, landslides, and traffic disruptions occurred at 602 locations across northern mountainous and north-central provinces, news agency reported.

The Philippines' year-on-year headline inflation quickened to 1.7 per cent in September from 1.5 per cent in August, due to higher transport and food costs, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday.

In a news conference, PSA Chief Dennis Mapa said that the uptrend in overall inflation in September was primarily driven by the annual increase in the transport index, which rose to 1 per cent from a yearly decline of 0.3 per cent in August.

Also contributing to the uptrend in overall inflation was the higher annual increment in the food and non-alcoholic beverages index, at 1 per cent in September, compared to 0.9 per cent in the previous month.

Shares in securities firms, which have already doubled this year, are widely expected to further advance down the road on the back of increased turnover and market-friendly steps, industry watchers said on Monday.

According to the Korea Exchange (KRX), the index tracking listed securities firms' stock movement has nearly doubled this year, joining the ranks of top-performing sectors, reports news agency.

The benchmark index, the KOSPI, has rallied by more than 43 per cent so far this year, and retail investors flocked to the market out of fear of missing out.

The Kronotsky volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula spewed ash to a height of 9.2 kilometres above sea level on Saturday, local authorities said.

The ash ejection occurred at 11:50 a.m. local time (2350 GMT Friday), sending an ash plume stretching about 85 kilometres to the south and southeast of the volcano, the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team said on its Telegram channel.

A red aviation colour code has been issued, indicating a high hazard for both the local and international air traffic, reports news agency.

Police have discovered illegal drugs of opium poppy in the western Afghanistan Herat province and took into custody two persons on charges of involvement in the drug business, provincial police spokesman Ghulam Nabi Babizada said on Thursday.

The alleged drug smugglers were busy selling 20 kg of opium poppy when police arrested them red-handed, the official said, News Agency reported.

Both the arrested persons have been taken into police custody for investigation, the official further said.

Typhoon Bualoi and subsequent floods and landslides have left 34 people dead, 20 missing and 140 others injured, with estimated economic losses of 8.78 trillion Vietnamese dong (about $356 million).

The typhoon caused severe damage to infrastructure, downing more than 8,200 electricity poles and leaving nearly 2.7 million households without power, while over 3,000 roads were blocked by flooding and landslides, reports.

Local authorities are reviewing and

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has become the world’s first person ever to reach a net worth of $500 billion, followed by Oracle’s Larry Ellison at a distant second.

According to Forbes' billionaires index, Musk’s net worth stood at $500.1 billion as of 4.15 pm ET (1:45 am Thursday India time).

His feat came as Tesla shares rose over 14 per cent so far this year, closing 3.3 per cent higher on Wednesday (US time), adding more than $6 billion to Musk’s wealth.

Musk’s AI startup xAI was valued at $75 billion (as of July). xAI was targeting a $200 billion valuation after a fundraise, although Musk said the company was not raising capital at that time.

The death toll in the 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Cebu province in the central Philippines could reach up to 60, the Philippines' Office of Civil Defence (OCD) said on Wednesday.

There have been reports that "as many as 60 individuals perished from this earthquake," but the number of deaths is still subject to validation, Assistant Secretary Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro, the deputy administrator for the OCD, said in a press conference.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council initially reported that 26 people died from the quake, and at least 147 people were injured.

A Qantas flight to South Africa was forced to turn back to Sydney due to a technical fault, the airline said on Wednesday.

Qantas flight QF63 to Johannesburg departed Sydney Airport at 10:14 a.m. local time on Tuesday with around 400 passengers on board, and had been in the air for about four hours when it turned back to Sydney due to a fault with satellite communications, reports news agency.

The Airbus A380 landed back at Sydney Airport shortly after 7:30 p.m..

A spokesperson for Qantas said on Wednesday that no mayday or other emergency calls were made.

The death toll from Typhoon Bualoi and subsequent floods in Vietnam has risen to 19, with 88 others injured, local media reported on Tuesday.

Thirteen people remain missing, while eight others are still out of contact, reports, quoting News Agency.

More than 105,000 houses were unroofed or damaged, with central Ha Tinh province hardest hit, accounting for over 78,800 of them.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has instructed local authorities and sectors to take urgent measures to support affected residents and mitigate the aftermath of the typhoon.

The death toll from Typhoon Bualoi in Vietnam has risen to 11, with 13 people still missing and 33 others injured, a local daily newspaper reported.

Six people were killed and seven others injured in northern Vietnam's Ninh Binh province.

Across the province, 10 houses collapsed and another 10 had their roofs blown off, reports news agency.

About 30 electricity poles were knocked down, while many trees and large areas of rice fields were flattened, local media outlet cited the provincial Department of Agriculture and Environment as saying.

The Australian government released the final budget outcome for the 2024-25 financial year on Monday, with a final deficit of about 18 billion Australian dollars (about 11.8 billion US dollars), lower than previously forecast.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher handed down the annual budget outcome on Monday, revealing a final underlying cash deficit of just under 10 billion Australian dollars, or 0.4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), at the end of the 2024-25 financial year on June 30, reports news agency.

The government's Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook (PEFO) 2025, released earlier this year, forecast a deficit of 27.9 billion Australian dollars for 2024-25. The 2022 PEFO forecast a deficit of 47.1 billion Australian dollars in 2024-25.

US President Donald Trump urged Microsoft Corp. to dismiss its Head of Global Affairs Lisa Monaco, labelling her as “corrupt,” “deranged,” and "a menace to US national security".

On President Trump's social media account, Truth Social, he claimed that Monaco's senior position at Microsoft, a company with significant government contracts, provides her access to sensitive information that he believes she cannot be trusted to handle.

Trump wrote that he’s already stripped Monaco of security clearances and prohibited her from accessing federal properties.

Authorities have recorded four deaths as severe tropical storm Bualoi continues to barrel through the Philippines after making landfall, the country's Office of Civil Defence (OCD) said on Friday.

Claudio Yucot, regional director of the OCD in Bicol, said at a televised press conference that they are validating reports that four people have been casualties of the severe tropical storm.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has condemned the immigration raids carried out in the United States by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), saying a diplomatic note was sent to Washington requesting an investigation into the recent deaths of two Mexican nationals.

"Yesterday, a diplomatic note was sent on this case, requesting that all investigations be carried out, and if anyone is responsible for human rights violations, that they be punished," the president said at her daily press conference on Wednesday (local time).

Mexican migrants Ismael Ayala-Uribe and Silverio Villegas Gonzalez died following ICE raids and detention in the United States, news agency reported.

A lurching stop by an escalator, a blank teleprompter and a failing sound system have turned into the stuff of an international conspiracy that has US President Donald Trump demanding an investigation and arrests.

"This wasn't a coincidence, this was triple sabotage at the UN," he said on Truth Social on Wednesday (local media).

The incidents happened during his Tuesday visit to the UN, where he spoke about weighty matters of global importance, along with the escalator and the malfunctioning teleprompter in his nearly hour-long speech to the gathered presidents, prime ministers and princes.

He said he was sending his complaint and demands to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the UN General Assembly that his country does not seek nuclear weapons.

"I hereby declare once more, before this assembly, that Iran has never sought and will never seek to build a nuclear bomb," he told the General Debate of the General Assembly on Wednesday (local time). "We do not seek nuclear weapons. This is our belief based on the edict issued by the Supreme Leader and by religious authorities. Therefore, we never sought weapons of mass destruction, nor will we ever seek them."

Pezeshkian said the attempts by the three European countries of Britain, France and Germany, which are parties to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, to reinstate UN sanctions against Iran are illegitimate, reports news agency.

Typhoon Ragasa left 14 dead and 18 injured in Taiwan as of 6 a.m. on Wednesday, said local authorities.

About 100 people remain trapped awaiting rescue, according to the island's emergency operation centre.

The typhoon's outer circulation continues to batter Taiwan's eastern, northern and southern coastal areas, bringing heavy rainfall. On Tuesday afternoon, a dam at a barrier lake in Hualien County overflowed, triggering flooding, Xinhua news agency reported.

Several nations have issued alerts in view of Typhoon Ragasa.

In China's Guangdong Province, as the storm approached, classes, production, public transportation and business operations were suspended.

According to the flood, drought and typhoon control headquarters in Zhanjiang City, schools halted classes at around 3 p.m. Tuesday as a precaution. Starting at 3 p.m. Wednesday, work, production, public transport and business operations across Zhanjiang will also be suspended.

 A Seoul court will hold a hearing on former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's request for bail later this week, legal sources said on Tuesday.

The hearing will be held at the Seoul Central District Court at 10:30 a.m. Friday after Yoon filed for bail last week, citing his right to defend himself and issues with his health.

Yoon has been in custody since July when special counsel Cho Eun-suk's team placed him under arrest a second time on charges related to his failed imposition of martial law in December.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating Antifa as "a domestic terrorist organisation," a move some experts believe lacks legal authority.

"President Donald J. Trump is right: the violence problem is on the Left. That's why he just designated Antifa -- a network of Radical Left terrorists that aim to overthrow the government through violence and agitation -- as a domestic terrorist organisation," the White House said in a document on Monday.

It also lists examples of the movement's "long history of terrorising our communities," including attacks on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, police officers, attendees of conservative political events, and Trump supporters.

India participated in the Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers' Meeting (CFAMM) 2025 and reiterated its commitment to the fundamental values and principles laid down in the Commonwealth Charter.

Representing India, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Secretary West Sibi George attended the meeting held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session on Monday, September 22.

Sharing the update on X, the MEA wrote, "Secretary (West) Sibi George attended the Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers' Meeting (CFAMM) 2025, held on the sidelines of the 80th UN General Assembly session on 22 September 2025."

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) officially launched its leadership election campaign on Monday, with five candidates filing their candidacies.

The contenders are Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, former Economic Security Ministers Takayuki Kobayashi and Sanae Takaichi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, and former LDP Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi.

All five also ran in last year's election, which saw a record nine candidates, reports news agency.

The contest will focus on issues such as cooperation with opposition parties, economic measures to tackle rising prices, and rebuilding the party after successive election defeats and political funding scandals.

Russia said that a flight by three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets from Karelia to the Kaliningrad region adhered to international aviation rules and did not cross into the airspace of other countries.

In a statement published on its Telegram channel on Saturday, the Defence Ministry said that the redeployment flight on Friday was scheduled in advance and carried out under objective monitoring systems, which confirmed that no borders were violated, Xinhua news agency reported.

The statement came after Estonia's Foreign Ministry summoned Russia's charge d'affaires on Friday to protest over what it claimed was an airspace violation by Russian aircraft.

 US President Donald Trump on Thursday again publicly stated that he is considering a return to the strategic Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. It has been four years since the American-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) withdrew from the airbase, which is about 60 km north of Kabul.

He had earlier suggested the idea, which must have resulted from a deep probe, long discussions, and a detailed briefing by his team of advisors.

Incidentally, the ‘Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan’ was signed with the Taliban in Doha on February 29, 2020, during the first term of President Trump. The Taliban returned to power in Kabul after US-led forces hastily withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.

A man has died after being stabbed in a targetted attack in eastern Australia on Wednesday morning.

Emergency services were called to reports of an assault on a street near the rural city of Grafton, 490 km northeast of Sydney in the state of New South Wales (NSW), around 1 am (local time) on Wednesday.

Police officers arrived and found that a 35-year-old man had been stabbed by unknown assailants while walking along the street,News Agency reported.

He was treated by ambulance paramedics, but died at the scene.

NSW Police said in a statement that initial inquiries indicated that the stabbing was a targetted attack.

British MP John McDonnell has called for an end to the human rights abuses in Balochistan by Pakistani forces and reaffirmed his commitment, together with his colleagues, to continue standing with the Baloch people.

He also stressed the importance of upholding the principle of self-determination in the province as a basic tenet of international human rights.

He made these remarks on Tuesday (local time) while speaking at the 7th Global Balochistan Conference in Geneva, organised by the Baloch National Movement (BNM) party. The event was attended by several political figures, human rights activists, and intellectuals.

An infant has died and a second child has been hospitalised with serious injuries after they were hit by a car in Australia's Sydney.

Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said on Monday night that emergency services were called to reports that a pedestrian had been hit by a vehicle in the carpark of a shopping centre in Minto, 37 km southwest of Sydney, at around 3:30 p.m. local time, news agency reported.

Officers arrived and commenced CPR on a five-month-old girl until the arrival of ambulance paramedics, but she died at the scene.

A five-year-old boy was also treated by ambulance paramedics before being taken to the hospital in a serious condition.

Container shipping costs to the United States and Europe declined last month amid uncertainties surrounding global trade due to Washington's tariff scheme, the customs agency here said on Monday.

The shipping cost for two twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers from South Korea to the US west coast decreased 3.9 per cent from the previous month to 5.28 million won (US$3,802), according to data from the Korea Customs Service.

Shipping rates to the U.S. east coast dropped 7.5 per cent to 5.84 million won during the same period, reports Yonhap news agency.

Shipping costs to the two U.S. regions had fallen for the past two months after rebounding in June, the agency said.

Freight rates from South Korea to the European Union also fell 4.3 percent on-month in August, to 3.77 million won.

At least three travellers were killed and two more injured as a car turned turtle in northern Afghanistan's Samangan province, said a news release of the provincial police office on Saturday.

Blaming reckless driving for the deadly accident, the short news release added that the mishap took place in Dara-e-Sufi Payan area on Friday night and the injured passengers had been taken to the nearby health centre, reports news agency.

Earlier, two commuters, including a driver, were killed and four others injured in two separate road accidents on a road crossing in Samangan province on Friday morning, and all the injured persons had been shifted to a hospital in the neighbouring Balkh province.

Earlier on Tuesday, 10 people died and several were injured in two separate accidents in Afghanistan.

ਸ਼ਨੀਵਾਰ ਨੂੰ ਰੂਸ ਦੇ ਕਾਮਚਟਕਾ ਖੇਤਰ ਦੇ ਪੂਰਬੀ ਤੱਟ ਦੇ ਨੇੜੇ 7.4 ਤੀਬਰਤਾ ਦਾ ਇੱਕ ਵੱਡਾ ਭੂਚਾਲ ਆਇਆ, ਜਿਸ ਕਾਰਨ ਸੁਨਾਮੀ ਦੀ ਚੇਤਾਵਨੀ ਜਾਰੀ ਕੀਤੀ ਗਈ।

ਅਮਰੀਕੀ ਭੂ-ਵਿਗਿਆਨਕ ਸਰਵੇਖਣ (USGS) ਦੇ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ, ਇਹ ਭੂਚਾਲ ਰੂਸੀ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ ਪੈਟ੍ਰੋਪਾਵਲੋਵਸਕ-ਕਾਮਚਟਸਕੀ ਤੋਂ 111 ਕਿਲੋਮੀਟਰ (69 ਮੀਲ) ਪੂਰਬ ਵਿੱਚ, ਕਾਮਚਟਕਾ ਖੇਤਰ ਦੇ ਪ੍ਰਸ਼ਾਸਕੀ ਕੇਂਦਰ, 39.5 ਕਿਲੋਮੀਟਰ ਦੀ ਡੂੰਘਾਈ 'ਤੇ ਆਇਆ।

ਭੂਚਾਲ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ, ਕਾਮਚਟਕਾ ਖੇਤਰ ਦੇ ਸਥਾਨਕ ਅਧਿਕਾਰੀਆਂ ਨੇ ਸੁਨਾਮੀ ਦੀ ਧਮਕੀ ਜਾਰੀ ਕੀਤੀ।

A massive 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck near the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka region on Saturday, prompting a tsunami warning.

According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the tremor hit 111 kilometres (69 miles) east of the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the administrative centre of the Kamchatka region, at a depth of 39.5 km.

Following the earthquake, local authorities of the Kamchatka territory issued a tsunami threat.

“The threat of a tsunami has been declared. We ask you to be especially careful when visiting the Khalaktyr beach and other tsunami-dangerous areas, ” the governor of the Kamchatka Territory, Vladimir Solodov, wrote on his Telegram channel.

In a gruesome incident, an Indian-origin man was fatally attacked and beheaded at a motel in Dallas, Texas.

According to local media reports, Chandra Nagamallaiah (50), who managed the motel, was repeatedly assaulted with a machete by the accused. The brutal attack left him fatally wounded, and authorities say the assailant also decapitated Nagamallaiah during the assault.

The extreme nature of the violence has shocked the local community and drawn widespread attention.

The accused, Yordanis Cobos-Martinez (37), was arrested and charged with capital murder. He is accused of beheading Nagamallaiah and leaving the victim’s head in a trash bin, authorities said.