Turkish jets launched air strikes inside Iraqi Kurdistan late Sunday, after a blast earlier the same day injured two police officers near the parliament building in Ankara.

Russia was targeted by another wave of Ukrainian drones and shelling yesterday, wounding three people and forcing an airport to divert flights, officials said.

A man was killed and another injured after a whale struck a boat off the coast of eastern Australia yesterday, police said.

Over 100 passengers, including migrants, were rescued from a ferry sailing from Italy’s Lampedusa to Sicily early yesterday, after a fire broke out in the engine room, authorities said.

Russia’s former leader Dmitry Medvedev suggested yesterday that Moscow may annex more regions of Ukraine, as he marked one year since the Kremlin claimed four Ukrainian territories as its own.

Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has accused Canada of giving “operating space” to terrorists and extremists, as he rejected claims by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the Indian government may have played a role in the assassination of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil.

Russia hosted Taliban leaders for talks on regional security yesterday as it seeks to forge ties with Afghanistan’s new rulers and assert itself as a major power in the region.

The number of Europe-bound migrants who died or went missing in the Mediterranean this summer has tripled since last year, the UN said yesterday, adding it had become a “cemetery” for children.

Seven EU countries have ordered ammunition under a landmark European Union procurement scheme to get urgently needed artillery shells to Ukraine and replenish depleted Western stocks, according to the EU agency in charge.

Over 88,000 people have crossed into Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh and the total could reach 120,000, said a UN refugee agency official yesterday, a figure matching estimates of the entire population of the breakaway region recaptured by Azerbaijan last week. Kavita Belani, UNHCR representative in Armenia, told a UN press briefing by video link that huge crowds of tired and frightened people were gathering at registration centres.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canada is still committed to building closer ties with India, despite “credible allegations” of the Indian government’s involvement in the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Canada-based National Post reported.

38 migrants from Bangladesh arrived after their nine-metre boat was picked up off the coast by Italian authorities, Ansa said.

Russia hit Ukrainian port infrastructure and grain storage facilities in an overnight drone strike on the grain exporting district of Izmail, Ukrainian officials said yesterday.

An overnight Russian air strike on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa caused “significant damage” to port infrastructure and destroyed some grain storage facilities, Ukrainian officials said yesterday.

Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, jailed for 25 years on treason charges and for denouncing Moscow’s Ukraine offensive, has arrived to serve his sentence at a maximum-security Siberian prison, his lawyer said yesterday.

A lock of hair from an Ethiopian prince who died in 1879 and artefacts looted by the British during a 19th-century battle have been returned to the east African country.

Handcuffed, a knife still sticking out of his overalls, the Chucky doll hunches against the wall as police hold him by his bright orange hair to take his mug shot.

Italian politicians paid tribute Friday to former president Giorgio Napolitano, a veteran of several governments, who died at the age of 98.

The first big ship carrying grain from a Ukrainian Black Sea port has set sail since Moscow quit a deal in July to allow exports, a Ukrainian deputy prime minister said yesterday, part of Kyiv’s campaign to break Russia’s de facto blockade.

Carbon dioxide detected on Jupiter’s moon Europa comes from the vast ocean beneath its icy shell, research using James Webb Space Telescope data has indicated, potentially bolstering hopes the hidden water could harbour life.