Israel’s air force conducted a large strike on a building in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital yesterday, a Reuters reporter said, the first heavy bombardment there since a truce deal in November ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the construction of a long-delayed solar power project during his upcoming visit to Sri Lanka, an official said yesterday.

Russia considers US plans to annex Greenland “serious” and worries the West could use the Arctic as a springboard for future conflicts, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.

The number of children living in poverty in the UK reached a new record, according to data published Thursday, as the government faces a storm of criticism over plans to cut welfare payments.

This year’s Arctic sea ice peak is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, according to data released by the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) on Thursday, as the planet continues to swelter under the mounting effects of human-driven climate change.

Israeli actions in Gaza, including strikes on populated areas in which civilians have been killed, “bear the hallmarks” of atrocities, the United Nations’ aid agency warned yesterday.

"Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas"

"If energy is unaffordable and unreliable it is a disaster for the economy," he said.

There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.

"60 universities and colleges under investigation by the Education Department for antisemitism"

The resumption of Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip has displaced 1,42,000 people in a mere seven days, the United Nations said Wednesday, warning of dwindling stocks of humanitarian aid.

US President Donald Trump, in a message to Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, expressed confidence in advancing bilateral relations between the two nations and promoting regional security in the Indo-Pacific.

Four Taiwanese soldiers, including three from a unit in charge of security for the president’s office, have been sentenced to prison for photographing and leaking confidential information to China, a court said.

The United States has removed multimillion-dollar bounties on leaders of Afghanistan’s feared Haqqani militant network, including the current Taliban interior minister, the State Department and Taliban government said.

Six foreigners were killed yesterday when a tourist submarine sank off Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, the local governor’s office told Reuters, without confirming the nationalities of the victims.

The chief of Myanmar’s ruling junta yesterday vowed to hold a free and fair election in December, as he urged armed opponents in a widening civil war to renounce violence and pursue dialogue.

A Turkish court yesterday ordered the release of three journalists, including AFP photographer Yasin Akgul, held after covering the country’s worst unrest in over a decade, his lawyer and an NGO said.

At least 14 million children face hunger and a heightened risk of malnutrition or death this year, Unicef warned Wednesday, as major international donors like the United States slash aid budgets.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said yesterday that two people were killed in overnight air strikes near Sanaa that they blamed on the United States.

Gunmen killed at least eight people in “coordinated” attacks in southwestern Pakistan that largely targeted bus passengers based on their ethnicity, police said yesterday, the latest in a spike in violence in the region.