A Turkish court yesterday jailed President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, pending trial on graft charges, in a move likely to stoke the country’s biggest protests against the government in more than a decade.

Lebanon’s health ministry said one person was killed yesterday in an Israeli drone strike, a day after the most intense escalation since a November ceasefire in the war with Hezbollah.

Pakistan’s army has killed 16 Islamist militants along the country’s western border with Afghanistan, a statement said yesterday.

Houthi rebel media in Yemen accused the United States Saturday of attacking the airport in Hodeida, the latest such claim since Washington announced heavy strikes against the rebels one week ago.

An Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza killed Hamas political leader Salah al-Bardaweel yesterday, officials of the group said, as residents reported an escalation in Israel’s six-day-old military campaign.

China’s number two leader yesterday called for “dialogue” with Washington, during a meeting in Beijing attended by prominent US business executives and a key congressional ally of President Donald Trump.

President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday urged Ukraine’s allies to put fresh pressure on Moscow to end the war, after Russian drones targeted Kyiv overnight, killing at least three people, according to local authorities.

Many were arrested, according to AFP journalists, but no official data was immediately available.

Lebanon's official National News Agency reported one girl among five people killed in an Israeli strike during the day on the southern town of Touline.

Moscow has rejected a joint US-Ukraine proposal for a full and unconditional 30-day ceasefire, suggesting instead halting aerial strikes on energy facilities.

The 88-year-old head of the Catholic Church was "very happy" to hear his health had improved sufficiently

Agents who pursue drug traffickers and tax fraud are being reassigned to enforce immigration law.

Israel conducted deadly strikes on Lebanon yesterday in response to a rocket attack from across the border, as militant group Hezbollah denied responsibility for the launch. 

Pakistan detained a leading female Baloch rights activist on Saturday for holding a sit-in in southwestern Balochistan at which three protesters were also killed, police said. 

Russian attacks killed a family of three late on Friday in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia and four more people in the country’s north and east, officials said. 

At least three firefighters and a public servant have been killed in a wildfire in South Korea, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency in southeastern regions, authorities said yesterday. 

The US said Friday it was terminating the legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, giving them weeks to leave the country. 

Moscow is hoping to achieve “some progress” at talks in Saudi Arabia tomorrow, a Russian negotiator told state media some 48 hours before the United States meets delegations from both Ukraine and Russia in a bid to halt the three-year conflict.

Heathrow Airport said it was “fully operational” yesterday but there were some delays and cancellations as Europe’s busiest air hub resumed operations a day after a power station fire caused travel mayhem.

US President Donald Trump made good Friday on a threat to revoke the security clearances of his predecessor Joe Biden and several senior former White House and national security officials.