The Israeli army on Sunday ordered an immediate evacuation of civilians near its frontier with Lebanon after cross-border fire killed one person

Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since Hamas's attack on southern Israeli civilians eight days ago have killed at least 2,329 people, the Hamas-controlled health ministry said Sunday

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for pressure on Hamas during a meeting Sunday with the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, which has warming ties with Israel but has put normalisation on hold

Israel's actions in Gaza have gone "beyond the scope of self-defence" and the Israeli government must "cease its collective punishment of the people of Gaza", China's foreign minister Wang Yi said in remarks published Sunday

A shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked western Afghanistan on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, the latest to hit a region where entire villages have been flattened and over 1,000 killed by a series of tremors this month

The United States is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean "to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war following Hamas's attack," Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Saturday

Netanyahu visits border as Israel readies troops for ground invasion defying ceasefire calls

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) has warned about the killing of children in Gaza amid fighting between Israel and Hamas.

Israel pummelled northern Gaza with fresh air strikes yesterday, one week on from the deadliest attack in its history, as a window for Gazans to flee closed before an expected ground offensive against Hamas militants.

Saudi Arabia has suspended talks on potentially normalising ties with Israel, a source told AFP yesterday, amid the war raging between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Gunmen killed six labourers in an overnight raid in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, officials said yesterday, in the region’s latest bout of violence.

Kyiv reported “heated” fighting around its eastern city of Avdiivka yesterday, saying Russian forces had “not stopped assaulting” the symbolic industrial hub for days in their attempt to surround it.

New Zealand’s centre-right National Party led by Christopher Luxon will form a new government with its preferred coalition party ACT, as Prime Minister Chris Hipkins conceded his Labour Party could not form a government after yesterday’s general election.

North Korea has delivered more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia in recent weeks for use in Ukraine, the White House said Friday.

Lebanon said yesterday that Israel was behind cross-border fire that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six others near the border the previous day.

France was on high alert yesterday, after an attacker stabbed a teacher to death in what the president called an act of “Islamist terror,” with troops deployed and the Louvre museum evacuating visitors,

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck off Taiwan’s east coast yesterday, the island’s weather bureau said, briefly shaking buildings in the capital Taipei but with no immediate reports of damage.

Two people died after being swept away in floodwaters in central Vietnam, state media reported yesterday.

Russia has destroyed almost 300,000 metric tonnes of grain since July in attacks on Ukraine’s port facilities and on ships, the Ukrainian government said on Friday, underscoring the war’s threat to global food security.

American poet Louise Gluck, winner of the Nobel prize for her distinctively austere writing that touched on themes of mythology and the universal human experience, has died, a Yale University spokeswoman said on Friday.