The shrinking of funding for Afghanistan, led by U.S. aid cuts, was hampering the response on Monday to a powerful earthquake in the east, with dozens of clinics closed and a helicopter out of use, humanitarian officials said.

U.S. President Donald Trump said that India has offered to reduce its tariffs on U.S. goods to zero, even as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was making public shows of solidarity with Chinese and Russian leaders in the face of trade pressure from Washington.

Degraded land, polluted air and water stress pose a direct global economic threat but using natural resources more efficiently could cut pollution by half, one of the World Bank’s senior managing directors told Reuters.

Samoa’s likely new Prime Minister says “the era of God-centred leadership” has begun.

Indonesian students and civil society groups called off protests in Jakarta on Monday after a week of escalating anger over lawmakers’ pay and the police response, citing fears of heightened security measures after deadly riots across the country on the weekend.

Around 500 people have been killed and 1000 more injured in an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the country’s state-run broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) reported.

South Korea has suspended a military radio broadcast that transmits to North Korea as part of measures aimed at easing tensions with Pyongyang, Seoul’s defence ministry said on Monday.

A U.S. federal judge halted the Trump administration from deporting a group of migrant Guatemalan children already boarded onto planes and potentially hundreds more in government shelters after their lawyers made a pre-dawn emergency appeal.

Pope Leo, the first U.S.-born leader of the global Catholic Church, prayed on Sunday that God would “stop the pandemic of arms” after a mass shooting on August 27 at a Minnesota Catholic school that killed two children.

Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg joined a flotilla of boats loaded with aid for Gaza as they set sail from Barcelona on Sunday, aiming to break Israel’s naval blockade and deliver food and other humanitarian supplies to the shattered enclave.

Russian drone attacks on power facilities in northern and southern Ukraine overnight left nearly 60,000 customers without electricity.

India and China are development partners, not rivals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed, as they discussed ways to improve trade ties amid global tariff uncertainty.