International from Monday, January 27th, 2025

India and China have agreed to resume direct air services after nearly five years, India's foreign ministry said on Monday.

The US said on Sunday that the agreement between Lebanon and Israel would remain in effect until February 18, after Israel said on Friday it would keep troops in the south beyond the Sunday deadline set out in a US-brokered ceasefire that halted last year's war with Hezbollah.

The head of the World Food Programme in Afghanistan says the agency can only feed half the millions of Afghans in need after cuts in international aid and an impending freeze in US foreign funding.

Thirty-seven suspected terrorists, including suspected members of IS, have been arrested across east Africa over the last two months, the global police body Interpol said on Monday.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians began moving along the main roads leading north in Gaza on Monday as Israel opened roadblocks after Hamas agreed to hand over female Israeli hostage Arbel Yehud and two other hostages.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule with a massive win in a presidential election that Western governments have rejected as a sham, according to preliminary results on Monday.

The US and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war on Sunday after the White House said the South American nation had agreed to accept military aircraft carrying deported migrants.