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.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he will issue an executive order to require voter identification from every voter.

Australia’s centre-left government condemned an anti-immigration rally being held in Sydney on Sunday, which it said sought to spread hate and had links to neo-Nazis.

A new $250 “visa integrity fee” imposed on travelers to the United States risks piling more pressure on the struggling travel industry, as overseas arrivals continue to fall due to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration and hostility to many foreign countries.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Saturday cancelled a planned trip to China as days of protests spread further outside the capital Jakarta, with several regional parliament buildings set ablaze.

British police said they arrested five people on Saturday after masked men tried to force their way into a hotel used by asylum-seekers, a day after the government won a court ruling on the use of another hotel to house migrants.