International news from Friday, July 18th, 2025

A passenger plane crash in Nepal last year that killed 18 people was caused by faulty information about the aircraft's takeoff speed in the flight documentation, a report issued on Friday by a government-appointed investigation panel said.

The U.S. government has designated The Resistance Front, considered an offshoot of the Pakistan-based extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, as a "foreign terrorist organization".

More than 5,000 people in South Korea have been forced into shelters as heavy rain pounded parts of the country for a third day, with the deluge killing at least four people and destroying property and infrastructure.

The US said that it did not support recent Israeli strikes on Syria and had made clear its displeasure, while Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa accused Israel of trying to fracture his country and promised to protect the Druze.