PAKISTAN: Rescuers in Pakistan’s Punjab province used drones to find people stranded on rooftops by massive floods as the government expanded its rescue operation with more than 850,000 evacuated, officials said today.

The Pakistan Meteorological Department warned of more heavy rain in Punjab’s flood-hit districts and elsewhere in the country, where weeks of above-normal rainfall and the release of huge volumes of water from dams in neighbouring India last week caused rivers to overflow into low-lying regions.

HAITI: An accident involving two armoured vehicles in Haiti’s capital left at least two people dead and eight police officers from Kenya injured, according to officials today.

One dead and all those injured were part of a United Nations backed mission in the troubled Caribbean country. The other fatality was a civilian.

Sunday evening’s accident occurred along the Kenscoff-Petion-Ville route in the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

BRUSSELS: A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said today.

The plane landed safely in Plovdiv airport, said the commission’s spokesperson Arianna Podesta.

Ms Podesta said: “We have received information from the Bulgarian authorities that they suspect that this was due to blatant interference by Russia.”

NAURU: Australia will pay the tiny Pacific island of Nauru to resettle foreign-born criminals who the courts have ruled cannot be imprisoned indefinitely, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said today.

Mr Albanese did not confirm reports that Australia would pay Nauru 400 million Australian dollars (£193m) to establish the deal then AU$70m (£34m) annually.