Israel announced the expansion of its war aims yesterday, widening its nearly year-long fight against Hamas in Gaza to focus on Hezbollah along its northern border with Lebanon.

Arvind Kejriwal, a top political opponent of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, quit as chief minister of the capital Delhi yesterday, days after being released on bail in a corruption case.

Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon yesterday, killing at least nine people and wounding some 2,800 in blasts the Iran-backed militant group blamed on Israel.

India’s top court yesterday ordered authorities to pause demolishing private property as punitive action against people accused of criminal activity, condemning the so-called “bulldozer justice”.

The problem of snake bites, which kill tens of thousands of people each year, is being exacerbated by climate-induced flooding in a number of countries with little access to antivenoms, the WHO warned yesterday.

Zimbabwe plans to cull 200 elephants to feed communities facing acute hunger after the worst drought in four decades, authorities said yesterday.

An Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group yesterday claimed responsibility for an attack on a military airport and training centre in Bamako, the first attack of its kind in years to hit the Malian capital.

The world’s ozone layer is on “the road to long-term recovery” despite a destructive volcanic eruption in the South Pacific, the World Meteorological Organization said yesterday, after efforts to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals.

After weeks of fierce political horse-trading, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen yesterday unveiled her new top team to help steward the EU through the next five years of global uncertainty.

India has condemned comments made by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the treatment of Muslims in the South Asian nation, calling his remarks “misinformed and unacceptable”.

Russia is boosting its army size to 1.5 million active soldiers due to “threats” along its borders, including hostility in the West, the Kremlin said yesterday.

The Chinese military tailed a US aircraft that was passing through the politically sensitive Taiwan Strait yesterday, Beijing’s army said, vowing to “resolutely defend national sovereignty”.

Indian authorities in Kolkata have sacked the city’s police chief and top health ministry officials after furious protests at the brutal rape and murder of a doctor.

Facebook owner Meta said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from its platforms, claiming the outlets had used deceptive tactics to carry out covert influence operations online.

Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said eight people were killed and some 2,750 wounded in pager explosions across the country yesterday, with Hezbollah earlier saying the pagers were used by its members.

Former US president Donald Trump publicly recounted Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt against him in detail for the first time, praising US Secret Service, other law enforcement and the witness who took a photo of the suspect’s car that helped lead to his apprehension.

Nothing justifies Israel’s collective punishment of the people of Gaza as they endure “unimaginable” suffering, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told AFP on Monday.

She will be the third woman to serve as chief minister of Delhi, following Sushma Swaraj (BJP) and Sheila Dikshit (Congress)

After months of relative calm, an uptick in violence again this month saw at least 11 people killed, including by insurgents reportedly firing rockets and dropping bombs with drones.

Little was revealed about the Trump family crypto project during a two-hour online presentation other than an offer to let people buy digital "tokens" giving them a vote in platform decisions.