Los Angeles imposes downtown curfew, another 197 people arrested

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday condemned “senseless... violence” after a 14-year-old pupil fatally stabbed a teaching assistant, the latest deadly incident at a school in the country.

Russia launched one of its largest air strikes on Kyiv in over three years of war and struck a maternity ward in the southern city of Odesa in attacks that killed at least three people, officials said yesterday.

Of the 12 activists on board the Madleen, which was carrying food and supplies for Gaza, four including Thunberg agreed to be deported immediately, while all of them have been banned from Israel for 100 years, the rights group that legally represents some of them said in a statement

Sri Lanka’s prison chief was remanded in custody yesterday in connection with the illegal release of a convicted financial fraudster under the guise of an amnesty for minor offenders.

Israel’s navy said it struck Houthi targets in Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeidah yesterday, and Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened the Iran-aligned movement with a naval and air blockade if attacks on Israel continue.

The United States and Israel are seeking to turn nuclear talks into a “strategic trap” for Iran, Iranian lawmakers said in a statement yesterday, days before a planned sixth round of Iran-US nuclear talks.

An Israeli strike killed a Lebanese father and son yesterday in a southern village, the Lebanese health ministry and state media said, the latest deaths despite a November ceasefire.

A gunman killed at least nine people at a secondary school in the southern Austrian city of Graz yesterday, in the worst school shooting in the country’s modern history.

The US State Department directed all US missions abroad and consular sections to resume processing Harvard University student and exchange visitor visas after a federal judge in Boston last week temporarily blocked President Trump’s ban on foreign students at the Ivy League institution.

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg said yesterday she was kidnapped in international waters by Israeli forces as she arrived in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport after being deported from Israel.

The World Health Organisation said Monday that the mpox virus epidemic remains an international health emergency with more than 37,000 confirmed cases reported since it erupted.

The owners thought the sculpture perched for years on the corner of a piano was a Rodin copy, but after being declared as the real thing the small marble figure has now sold for one million dollars at auction, organisers said Monday.

The attacks hit Cali, the country's third largest city

The overnight strikes followed Russia's biggest drone assault of the war on Ukraine on Monday and were part of intensified bombardments in what Moscow says is retaliation for attacks by Ukrainian forces on Russia

The Al-Amal Hospital in Gaza, one of the few still operating in the Palestinian territory, is now "virtually out of service"

Trump had already mobilized 2,000 National Guard members to the country's second most populous city on Saturday

Israeli forces intercepted the boat in international waters on Monday and towed it to the port of Ashdod

The Madleen vessel was carrying humanitarian aid and a crew of solidarity activists

Officials have not said when student interviews will resume, plunging the education of students from abroad into doubt, including those in India, the biggest contributor of international students to U.S. schools of higher learning