Israeli forces killed 35 Palestinians in aerial and ground bombardments across the Gaza Strip yesterday and battled in close combat with Hamas members in areas of the southern city of Rafah, health officials and Hamas media said.

UN war crimes investigators said yesterday they were tracking the escalating fighting in conflict-torn Myanmar’s Rakhine State, and were probing reports that thousands from a persecuted minority had been displaced.

Researchers on Wednesday said they were a step closer to solving one of the trickiest problems in tackling climate change -- how to keep making cement despite its enormous carbon footprint.

The World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) Norwegian chapter said yesterday it would take legal action against Norway for opening up its seabed to mining before performing sufficient impact studies.

UK political leaders kicked off six weeks of campaigning yesterday, firing the first angry shots in their electoral battle before the country votes for a new government on July 4.

The heads of three universities and an academic honor society were due to testify yesterday to the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce about universities’ handling of pro-Palestinian protests.

Half of Pakistan’s pupils will be shut out of schools for a week as the nation takes crisis measures to lessen the effect of a series of heatwaves, officials said yesterday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday signed a decree allowing the confiscation of assets inside Russia belonging to the United States, its citizens and companies, to compensate those hit by Western sanctions against Moscow.

Nigeria troops have rescued 64 women and children kidnapped by criminal gangs weeks ago in Zamfara state, a government spokesman said yesterday.

A missile attack targeted a commercial vessel transiting southwest of Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah without causing any damage or casualties, maritime security firms said yesterday.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal yesterday questioned the rationale behind what he perceives as targeting his elderly and ailing parents in the connection with Swati Maliwal assault case.

China yesterday encircled Taiwan with naval vessels and military aircraft in war games, as it vowed the blood of “independence forces” on the self-ruled island would flow.

Russia pounded Kharkiv with missiles yesterday, killing seven people inside a printing house, and President Volodymyr Zelensky chided Ukraine’s western allies for not providing enough military support to rebuff Russian attacks.

The deputy head of the Russian army's General Staff has been accused of taking bribes and arrested, investigators said on Thursday, the latest in a slew of high-profile cases of alleged corruption to shake the military's top brass

China on Thursday encircled Taiwan with naval vessels and military aircraft in war games aimed at punishing the self-ruled island after its new president vowed to defend democracy

Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash, will be buried Thursday in his hometown after two days of funeral processions attended by thousands of mourners

More than 80 illegal immigrants, including a six-month-old baby, were arrested in a three-day operation involving three districts in Johor

A second case of bird flu has been found in a human, US health authorities announced Wednesday, less then two months after the first one as an outbreak of the disease circulates widely among dairy cows

India’s election panel yesterday ordered the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and opposition Congress to exercise restraint in their campaigns, after both had reported the other for making divisive speeches during India’s vote.

Ukraine attacked a number of villages in Russia’s Belgorod border region and the occupied eastern city of Lysychansk yesterday, killing two people, authorities and Russian media said.