LEBANON: Talks on forming a new government collapsed again today after a weekend of demonstrations for democratic change.

President Michel Aoun and prime minister-designate Saad Hariri blamed each other for the impasse.

Lebanon has not had a government since August.

INDIA: Troops killed four alleged militants in Kashmir overnight on Sunday, authorities said today.

Soldiers raided a village on the outskirts of a town called Shopian, Inspector-General Vijay Kumar said. The separatists were killed in a gunfight after refusing to surrender, he said.

Residents said troops had surrounded a civilian house in the village and razed it to the ground.

YEMEN: Saudi Arabia has put a ceasefire proposal to the Houthis, it said today.

The deal would see Sanaa international airport reopen and establish a revenue-sharing arrangement for the Houthi authorities and Yemen’s government in exile, which the Saudi war begun in 2015 aims to restore to power.

Houthi sources said they were in touch with Saudi Arabia about the conditions.

BANGLADESH: Thousands of refugees are without shelter following a fire that raced through a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar today.

No casualties were immediately reported but deaths and injuries were feared. No details on the missing could be confirmed.

More than a million Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape a Burmese ethnic-cleansing operation in 2017.