Wildfires raging in a forest south of Paris have devoured more land overnight, firefighters said yesterday, ahead of France’s national day celebrations.

An Israeli strike and gunfire killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 10-year-old boy, and a senior Hamas police officer, in the Gaza Strip yesterday, Gazan health and police officials said.

Israel engaged in a multi-year effort to recruit and re-install as leader Iran’s former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, The New York Times reported Monday, citing US officials and sources with knowledge of the failed Israeli plot.

Ukraine’s military said yesterday that it struck two Russian oil refineries in the Bashkortostan and Krasnodar regions overnight.

Archaeologists uncovered a 3,000-year-old tomb near the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, authorities said on Sunday, the latest in a series of discoveries that officials hope will boost tourism.

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"I directed this military action consistent with my responsibility to protect Americans and United States' national security and foreign policy interests," Trump said in the letter, dated July 10, and seen by Reuters on Monday.

The fire erupted Sunday in the sprawling Fontainebleau forest, a former royal hunting estate that today is dotted with quiet villages, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) southeast of the capital

His visit comes against the backdrop of renewed military escalation between the United States and Iran, Iraq's main allies

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Tuesday they had carried out missile and drone strikes on Bahrain, after the Gulf country urged citizens to take shelter as a siren sounded

The Iran-aligned Houthi movement that controls northern Yemen yesterday accused Saudi Arabia of launching airstrikes against the international airport in Sanaa, and vowed to retaliate.

The United States is “taking over” the Strait of Hormuz and will be paid for protecting it, US President Donald Trump declared yesterday, as Washington and Tehran once again fought over the vital waterway.

The EU said yesterday that European donors had put some $1 billion on the table to help initial recovery efforts in war-torn Gaza.

An explosive fire at a pub in Thailand’s capital Bangkok killed 27 people and injured dozens, officials said yesterday, with police investigating possible negligence including obstructed emergency exits as people scrambled to flee the burning venue.

The US military said on Sunday it completed a new round of strikes in Iran aimed at preventing the Islamic republic from attacking shipping in the vital Strait of Hormuz

The official death toll from Venezuela's devastating twin earthquakes rose to nearly 4,500 on Sunday, as the government reported more than 19,500 people were now living in camps due to the destruction

European countries reported more than 10,000 excess deaths during the record-breaking heatwave that engulfed the west of the continent in late June, official data showed

The final day of the Salsa on St Clair festival was canceled

Two people were killed and at least four others seriously wounded in a shooting at a salsa festival on Saturday that drew thousands of people in Toronto, Canada police said.