Rescuers helped the survivors to disembark at the Gran Canaria port of Arguineguin this morning (Picture: REUTERS)

Senegal has reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a new $2.2 billion debt programme, the financial institution said on Tuesday. An earlier agreement was suspended in 2024 after the discovery of underreported debt.

Kenyan aviation workers have called off a strike that paralysed the country's main international airport for two days, the civil aviation authority said Tuesday.

Balladur, who was born in Turkey, served as President Francois Mitterrand's last prime minister from March 1993 to May 1995, carrying out several major privatisations of state companies, and unsuccessfully ran for the top job in 1995

Pramod Poudel last spoke to his new spouse Sumitra on Wednesday before devastation struck near the border with China's autonomous province of Tibet.