Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness arrived in New Delhi on Monday for a historic four-day visit, marking the first-ever bilateral visit by a leader from the island nation to India.

He was warmly received at the airport by Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary.

Holness's visit, which will continue until October 3, comes at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Both leaders have previously met on multiple occasions at various multilateral forums and are scheduled to hold delegation-level talks during this visit.

In addition to discussions with PM Modi, the Jamaican Prime Minister is also slated to meet President Droupadi Murmu, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, and other high-ranking officials and business leaders.

Hezbollah has confirmed that the group's senior leader Ali Karaki, head of the southern front, was killed, along with top leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in the Israeli airstrikes targeting Beirut's southern suburbs.

Hezbollah said on Sunday in a statement that Karaki "was martyred with a group of his jihadist brothers in the enemy's criminal raid on Haret Hreik, accompanied by... Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah".

On Friday evening, Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on Hezbollah's main headquarters in Dahieh, the southern suburbs of Beirut, during which Nasrallah and some other commanders of the armed group were killed, news agency reported.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has claimed on Sunday that it killed Nabil Qaouk, the commander of Hezbollah's Preventive Security Unit and a member of Hezbollah's central council, in an airstrike on Saturday. It gave no detail on where the strike took place.

Israeli opposition lawmaker Gideon Saar has joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, the two politicians said.

In a video statement, Netanyahu said on Sunday that under the terms of their agreement, Saar would be appointed to his security cabinet, which is responsible for key policy decisions in Israel's ongoing war.

According to state-owned Kan TV, Saar, a prominent far-right politician and former rival of Netanyahu, had been in talks over a deal that would have seen him replace Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, another political rival of the Prime Minister. However, the effort faltered last week as Israel intensified its offensive against Hezbollah, news agency reported.

Saar's entry was widely viewed by local media as an attempt to solidify Netanyahu's coalition government and strengthen his grip on power.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Saturday a ban on gatherings of more than 1,000 people in central Israel.

The IDF's Home Front Command tightened its directives on gatherings following the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon's Beirut on Friday.

"We are taking all necessary precautions to keep the Israeli residents safe," said IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari.

"Challenging days ahead, we have more tasks to complete," he said. "First of all return our abductees who Hamas brutally holds in Gaza, and return the residents in the north and south to their homes safely."

Following the tightened directives, the Israeli Premier League's Saturday and Sunday football matches will be held behind closed doors in central Israel,news agency reported.

Nigerian authorities have issued a fresh alert to citizens as the country faces rising water levels due to flash and river flooding.

The latest warning followed the prolonged rainfall across the most populous African country, which has so far caused devastating floods in several areas, said Umar Mohammed, head of the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), in a statement obtained by Xinhua in the capital of Abuja Saturday.

Water levels in the country's two major rivers, the Benue and Niger rivers in the central part of Nigeria, and tributaries had "reached critical levels," raising concerns about potential severe flooding in communities along these riverbanks, the hydrological agency said.

It urged residents in affected areas to relocate to safer locations and take steps to secure their lives and property while stressing the importance of maintaining clear drainage systems and ensuring that water runoff paths are unobstructed. The NIHSA also called on residents to clear the gutters and drainages, which, it said, would help mitigate the impact of flooding.

A chartered helicopter crashed in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Saturday afternoon, killing six people on board while injuring 10 others, police officials said.

The incident happened at about 1 pm local time when a helicopter chartered by a private oil exploration and production company Mari Petroleum crashed in the Shewa area of North Waziristan district of the province, District Police Officer Rokhanzeb Khan news agency.

Six people, including two Russian pilots of the aircraft, were killed in the unfortunate incident, said the official, adding that 10 others sustained injuries, including staff of the private company.

The incident occurred due to a technical fault in the aircraft immediately after it took off, according to local government officials. The engine of the helicopter caught fire before it hit the ground and crashed, officials added.

The cause of the technical fault is still unknown and is being investigated by the relevant authorities.

Following the incident, rescue teams and security personnel reached the area and cordoned it off.

At least nine people have died and 48 went missing after an illegal migrant boat capsized off the island of El Hierro, Spain's maritime rescue service confirmed on Saturday.

Another 27 people were rescued, according to the maritime rescue's X account.

The rescue is still going on with several vessels and a helicopter searching for the missing.

Floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall in Nepal have claimed at least 59 lives and injured 36 others by Saturday afternoon, local police said.

A total of 44 others had gone missing in the disasters sparked by rainfalls since Friday evening, and the police had rescued 1,252 people from different parts of Nepal, said Dan Bahadur Karki, Nepali Police spokesperson.

"Of the total casualties, 34 deaths were from the three districts in the Kathmandu Valley,"

"At least 17 people were missing while 16 others were injured in the valley."

The Philippines recorded 354 rabies cases and deaths from January to September 14 this year, a 23 per cent increase from the 287 cases tallied in the same period last year, according to data from the Philippines' Department of Health (DOH).

"All confirmed rabies cases are fatal," the agency said on Friday, adding that this year's number "may still vary with incoming reports."

In August, the agency said that at least 10 regions across the country, including Metro Manila, have shown a spike in rabies cases,news agency reported.

As many as 12 miners were killed and 11 others injured following a landslide at a traditional mine in Solok regency of Indonesia's West Sumatra province.

The landslide, which occurred during heavy downpours on Thursday afternoon, has severely hampered rescue operations due to a lack of communication access and challenging terrain, a senior rescuer said on Saturday.

Abdul Malik, head of the provincial search and rescue office, said that efforts to locate two remaining miners were ongoing, although their condition remains unknown,news agency reported.

"The latest data shows that 12 people have lost their lives, and 11 others are receiving medical treatment for their injuries. Rescuers have identified the location of the two remaining miners and are working to retrieve them from the mine shaft," Malik said.