International news from Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday in the first such visit in almost a decade for a meeting of governments of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Russian authorities said on Tuesday they had rescued a man whose tiny boat drifted for 67 days since August in waters edging the northwestern Pacific, but his brother and nephew died during the ordeal. 

The World Health Organisation said it received pledges worth $700 million (AED 2.5 billion) for its 2025-2028 budget at a event in Berlin on Monday, in addition to $300 million (AED 1.1 billion) already pledged by the European and African Unions.

A funeral procession was held in Iraq for Iranian General Abbas Nilforoushan on Monday, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike last month in Beirut, alongside Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

At least 21 people were killed and eight others were injured by an Israeli airstrike in northern Lebanon on Monday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said.

NASA launched a spacecraft from Florida on Monday on a mission to examine whether Jupiter's moon, Europa, has conditions suitable to support life, with a focus on the large subsurface ocean believed to be lurking beneath its thick outer shell of ice.