Breaking News Live Updates, May 25: At least 28 workers, including half from single family, killed in Angola mine collapse

A search operation by security forces is underway in the general areas of Gambir Mughlan and Dorimal in the Manjakote sector of Rajouri District, following specific intelligence inputs about the presence and movement of suspected terrorists in the region. Joint teams of the Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF have launched combing operations in the forest belt and adjoining areas. Additional troops have also been deployed to strengthen the cordon and search operation.

Ugandan health authorities on Monday reported two new Ebola cases, bringing the number of infections to seven.

All the cases are linked to the outbreak in neighbouring Congo, which appears to have started several days or weeks before Congolese authorities declared it on May 15.

A 59-year-old Congolese man was admitted to a hospital in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, on May 11, and died three days later, before it was known he was suffering from the Ebola virus. Two other Congolese nationals who sought medical care in Uganda later tested positive for Ebola.

“Both patients have been admitted to the designated treatment unit and are now receiving care,” Dr. Charles Olaro, the national director of health services, said in a statement.

In Congo, suspected Ebola cases have topped 900, mainly in eastern Ituri province where the ongoing outbreak is centered, authorities said Sunday.

A small artisanal gold mine collapsed in northern Angola at the weekend, claiming the lives of at least 28 miners, nearly half from one family, reports and officials said.

Angola's rich deposits of diamonds and other minerals, including gold, reportedly draw thousands of men, including from neighbouring countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, to illegal and uncontrolled mines.

Authorities recovered the bodies of 28 people aged between 18 and 45 years following the collapse early on Saturday at the mine in Bengo province, northeast of the capital, Luanda, a police official told national broadcaster TPA.

"These young people were extracting strategic minerals, namely gold, in this area and at a certain point the mine collapsed," he said on Sunday, adding that authorities were searching for other bodies.

A rescue department official gave the same death toll to local media and said that 13 of the dead were from the same family.

Bengo officials estimated there were around 7,000 illegal miners involved in gold extraction in the province, the Angola Press Agency reported.

Heatwave to severe heatwave conditions are likely to continue over central and northwest India during the next 4-5 days; and over east & adjoining peninsular India during the next 3-4 days: IMD

The Karnataka State Cyber Command has busted a major “digital arrest” fraud racket and arrested six persons accused of impersonating senior officials of the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to cheat a 74-year-old woman of Rs 24 crore, police said on Monday. The accused allegedly intimidated and coerced the victim into transferring money through a series of transactions between February 10 and April 24 this year.

Police identified the accused as N Sivagnanam from Tamil Nadu’s Erode, Akkach Mallick from Mumbai, Palak Bhai Patel and Amit Narendra Patel from Ahmedabad, Om Prakash Rajput from New Delhi and Gaurav Kumar from Bihar. According to investigators, the elderly woman transferred Rs 24 crore through 26 transactions into 23 mule bank accounts spread across 10 banks across the country.

The fraud came to light on April 24 after a bank alerted the Cyber Command Unit about suspicious transaction attempts. Police said officers immediately intervened, counselled the victim and prevented further transfers, saving nearly Rs 3 crore. During the investigation, authorities froze several mule accounts linked to the laundering network through the NCRP portal, recovered around Rs 1.5 crore through court orders and secured over Rs 4 crore from being siphoned off further. Six mobile phones allegedly used in the crime were also seized.

“Digital arrest” scams have emerged as a growing cybercrime trend in India, where fraudsters pose as law enforcement or government officials over audio and video calls to intimidate victims into transferring money under the threat of arrest or legal action.

At least eight people were killed after a sports utility vehicle (SUV) plunged into a gorge in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, police said. The accident occurred in the hilly region of the district, following which rescue teams rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies.

Police said further details about the victims and the cause of the accident are being ascertained. An investigation into the incident is underway.

The United States expressed “deep regret” after countries participating in the 2026 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) failed to agree on a final document, with Washington sharply criticising Iran’s nuclear activities.

According to Al Jazeera, the US specifically pointed to the “inability of some NPT States Parties to take Iran's threat to global nonproliferation seriously” as a key concern behind the collapse of consensus at the conference.

The review conference, which opened at the United Nations headquarters in New York on April 27, concluded without agreement amid ongoing tensions between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s nuclear programme.

The US State Department criticised “Iran's continued noncompliance with its NPT-required safeguards agreement with the IAEA” as well as its “escalating nuclear activities for which there is no credible civilian justification”, Al Jazeera reported.

Washington argued that the NPT review process cannot remain credible if countries “turn a blind eye to Iran's noncompliance” and warned that violators should not be allowed to “undermine the enforcement and accountability mechanisms at the core of the NPT”.

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) said it detected nine sorties of Chinese military aircraft, seven naval vessels and one official ship operating around the island as of 6 am local time on Monday.

According to the ministry, eight of the nine aircraft entered Taiwan’s southwestern and eastern Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ).

“9 sorties of PLA aircraft, 7 PLAN vessels and 1 official ship operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today, 8 out of 9 sorties entered Taiwan’s southwestern and eastern part ADIZ,” the MND said in a post on X.

Taiwan said its armed forces monitored the situation and responded accordingly.

The latest activity comes amid continued military pressure from China around Taiwan and heightened tensions across the Taiwan Strait.

The police have recovered a child's body and have arrested her father on charges of murder in the Mukundpur area. The accused has been identified as Deepak. The accused already had a daughter, and upon the birth of another daughter, he committed the murder. The police are currently investigating the case, said Delhi Police.