EU countries, including Sweden, the ​Netherlands, Spain and ‌Poland, are urging Brussels to revive ​efforts to use ​immobilised Russian sovereign assets ⁠to fund ​Ukraine, the Financial Times ​reported on Thursday.

Nepali labourer Bibek Kumal was digging a toilet ​pit outside a newly built house on Wednesday when a wall of water, mud and rock came roaring down, ‌sweeping him and everything near him away.

China’s ​drug ‌regulator has accepted ​Novo ​Nordisk’s, opens new tab marketing ⁠application ​for the ​oral version of ​its ​weight-loss drug Wegovy, ‌the ⁠Danish drugmaker said ​in ​a ⁠statement on ​Thursday.

Meta Platforms, opens new tab will pay up to $18 billion over the next decade and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under an agreement with nearly all U.S. states to resolve claims it designed those social media platforms to addict children.

President Donald Trump’s administration has ​issued a pause on visa appointments for applicants around the world during ‌an ongoing immigration crackdown by the U.S. government in the Republican leader’s second term in the White House.

The U.S. Secret Service is aware of a video broadcast by Iranian ​state television discussing a potential plot to ‌assassinate U.S. President Donald Trump’s youngest son, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Iran said it had restarted talks ​with neighbor Oman to manage the Strait of Hormuz as it faces heightened economic pressure from U.S. ‌President Donald Trump in the wider conflict.

President Donald Trump has ​sent Congress a proposed agreement with Saudi Arabia on civil nuclear energy while insisting the pact will only ‌go into effect if the kingdom normalizes relations with Israel, a U.S. administration official told Reuters.

U.S. CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow for meetings with Russian officials, U.S. media outlets reported, citing unnamed ​sources.

Canada hit back on Tuesday with retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion worth of U.S. annual imports and rolled out aid for businesses and workers, matching Washington’s latest duties dollar-for-dollar.

Labour, New Zealand’s main opposition party, said on Tuesday it would support a ban on social ​media for under-16s.

The Indian central bank likely intervened ​in the foreign exchange ‌market on Tuesday, four traders told Reuters on Tuesday, to ​shield the currency ​against pressure on account of ⁠elevated oil prices and ​sustained corporate dollar demand.