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The relentless Israeli offensive in Gaza City has forced Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend its vital medical activities due to continued airstrikes and advancing tanks less than half a mile from their health care facilities, the organisation said on Friday.

United Nations sanctions on Iran are set to be reimposed on Saturday, Britain's UN envoy said on Friday after a Russian and Chinese Security Council resolution to delay them failed, prompting Tehran to warn that the West bore responsibility for any consequences.

The United States said it would revoke Colombian President Gustavo Petro's visa after he took to New York's streets on Friday in a pro-Palestinian demonstration and urged US soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump's orders.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply denounced Western countries on Friday for embracing Palestinian statehood.

A fire at South Korea's data infrastructure centre on Friday interrupted dozens of online government services including websites and email, according to media reports.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank, rejecting calls from some far-right politicians in Israel who want to extend sovereignty over the area and snuff out hopes for a Palestinian state.

Indian police arrested Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk on Friday, two days after New Delhi blamed him for violent protests demanding statehood for the Himalayan federal territory in which four people died, and suspended mobile internet services in its main city of Leh.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his talks with US leader Donald Trump on Thursday yielded "meaningful progress" in many areas, with discussions on steps to improve defence cooperation and boost trade.

Rescue workers in Taiwan battled through thick mud on Friday, looking for 11 people still missing after Super Typhoon Ragasa this week sent a wall of water into a small town on the east coast.

Britain on Friday said it would introduce a mandatory digital ID scheme for British citizens and residents starting a new job as a measure to deter illegal immigration.

Microsoft said it has disabled some services used by an Israeli military unit on Thursday after preliminary evidence supported a media investigation that reported mass surveillance of Palestinian phone calls.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged at the 80th session of the UN General Assembly on Thursday to work with US President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia, France and the UN on a peace plan for Gaza backed by the world body.

Qantas Airways said a fire alert that triggered the pilot of a flight from Sydney to make an emergency call before landing safely at Auckland airport on Friday was likely a false alarm.

Slovenia on Thursday imposed a travel ban on Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a government statement, after last year officially recognising Palestine and in July banning two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers.

The Israeli military said it struck military targets linked to Yemen's Houthis in Sanaa on Thursday, a day after the group claimed a drone attack on a hotel in Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat.

Airports in western Denmark reopened early on Thursday after being shut for hours when unidentified drones flew into their airspace overnight, the second such security incident in the Nordic country this week.

Israeli forces advanced deeper into Gaza City on Thursday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly, with US President Donald Trump pursuing a deal to end the Gaza war.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will soon be imprisoned after he was sentenced to five years in jail on Thursday by a court that found him guilty of criminal conspiracy over dealings with Libya.

Taiwan searched on Thursday for 33 people missing after a strong typhoon flooded a lake above a small town on its remote east coast, leading to a disaster as many victims were too elderly to follow evacuation guidance to go upstairs in their homes.

Security forces patrolled the streets on Thursday in India's Himalayan region of Ladakh, where curfew was clamped in some areas a day after four people were killed in violent protests demanding statehood for the federal territory and job quotas.

More than 1,000 children in Indonesia's West Java have suffered food poisoning this week from school lunches, authorities said, the latest in a series of outbreaks and another setback for the president's multi-billion-dollar free meals programme.

Ukraine and Syria formally restored diplomatic relations on Wednesday as their leaders met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Hong Kong resumed flights out of its international airport on Thursday after a 36-hour suspension, reopening businesses, transportation services and some schools after the world's most powerful tropical cyclone this year lashed the financial hub.

Arab League leaders and members from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) reiterated their commitment to cooperate with US President Donald Trump in a joint statement, stressing on the importance of his leadership to end the war in Gaza.

A shooter killed at least one person and wounded others on Wednesday at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Dallas before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, local and federal authorities said.

At least four people were killed and dozens injured in India's Himalayan region of Ladakh on Wednesday as protesters demanding statehood for the federal territory and job quotas for local residents clashed with police.

Typhoon Ragasa, the world's most powerful tropical cyclone this year, made landfall in southern China on Wednesday after killing 14 people in Taiwan and lashing Hong Kong with ferocious winds and heavy rains.

Berlin airport is battling to restore its check-in and baggage handling systems after a cyberattack at the weekend, with further delays and cancellations possible on Wednesday, the airport operator said in a statement.

The Israeli government has shown a clear intent to establish permanent control over Gaza and to ensure a Jewish majority in the occupied West Bank, a United Nations commission said in a report on Tuesday.

Thai authorities rushed to contain a massive sinkhole near a hospital in central Bangkok that disrupted utilities and traffic, officials said on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump has linked autism to childhood vaccine use and the taking of pain medication Tylenol by women when pregnant, elevating claims not backed by scientific evidence to the forefront of US health policy.

Israel will indefinitely close the only crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan from Wednesday, days after reopening it following a shooting that killed two Israeli soldiers.

US President Donald Trump warned Russia he is prepared to impose strong economic measures over the war in Ukraine and rejected a global move toward recognition of a Palestinian state, in a combative speech to the UN General Assembly.

India's military will test drone and counter drone systems next month in a major exercise to toughen its air defences, a senior officer said on Tuesday, months after a conflict with Pakistan saw the large-scale use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS).

Israel's military pushed deeper towards the most populated areas of Gaza City on Tuesday, a painful reminder for Gazans that Western powers' recognition of a Palestinian state does not mean an end to the horrors of war as tanks approach.

Dozens of world leaders, including France, gathered at the UN on Monday to embrace a Palestinian state, a landmark diplomatic shift nearly two years into the Gaza war that faces fierce resistance from Israel and its close ally the US.

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Al-Sheikh has passed away.

Dozens of Western nations called on Monday for the reopening of the medical corridor between Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, offering to provide financial aid and medical staff or equipment to treat Gaza's patients in the West Bank.

Hong Kong braced for Super Typhoon Ragasa on Tuesday, shutting schools and some businesses, while most passenger flights were scheduled to be suspended later in the day until early Thursday.

Danish police said on Tuesday that drones that shut the country's main airport on Monday appeared to have been flown by "a capable operator", adding that no suspects had been identified.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday that US President Donald Trump will hold a multilateral meeting with the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Gaza.

Airport disruptions that affected automated check-in systems in recent days were caused by a ransomware attack, the EU's cybersecurity agency said on Monday, highlighting the growing risks of such attacks to critical infrastructure and industries.

India's Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to respond to a plea seeking an independent investigation into the Air India plane crash on June 12 that killed 260 people.

France and Saudi Arabia will convene dozens of world leaders on Monday to rally support for a two-state solution, with several of them expected to formally recognise a Palestinian state - a move that could draw harsh Israeli and US responses.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr ordered the disaster response agency to go on full alert and mobilise all government agencies as Super Typhoon Ragasa threatened the north of the country and set off storm alerts across East and Southeast Asia.

Nepal's interim government, led by former Chief Justice Sushila Karki, has set up a panel to investigate the violence during anti-corruption protests this month that killed 74 people and forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to quit, a minister said on Monday.

An Israeli drone strike killed five people, including three children, in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil on Sunday, Lebanon's health ministry said.

Britain, Canada and Australia all recognised a Palestinian state on Sunday in a move borne out of frustration over the Gaza war and intended to promote a two-state solution but which is also bound to anger Israel and its main ally, the United States.

President Donald Trump hailed slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a "martyr for American freedom" on Sunday and vowed at his memorial service to carry on his work, while again accusing what he called the "radical left" for Kirk's murder.

Syria will hold its first parliamentary election under its new administration on October 5, state news agency SANA said on Sunday.

Israeli forces blew up more residential buildings in Gaza City on Sunday, killing at least 31 Palestinians and prompting many others to flee, Gazan health authorities said, as Israel's tanks pushed further into the densely populated city.

A memorial service for Charlie Kirk on Sunday is expected to draw a massive crowd at a football stadium in Arizona, where President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other prominent MAGA allies will pay tribute to the slain conservative activist.

A new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas in the United States that goes into effect on Sunday will be levied per petition and will not be applied to existing visa holders re-entering the country, the White House clarified.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to announce on Sunday Britain's recognition of a Palestinian state in a break with long-standing policy despite stiff opposition from Israel and disapproval from the United States, the UK's closest ally.

A Chinese journalist jailed for four years after documenting the early phases of the COVID-19 outbreak from the pandemic's epicentre was sentenced on Friday to four more years in prison, Reporters Without Borders said.

Some of Europe's biggest airports, including the region's busiest Heathrow, raced on Sunday to restore normal operations to automatic check-in systems after disruption caused by hackers a day earlier.

Israel's military kept up its assault on Gaza City and the wider Gaza Strip on Saturday, dismantling underground shafts and booby-trapped structures in attacks that left 34 Palestinians dead, according to Gazan health authorities.

World leaders gather in New York this coming week for a UN General Assembly dominated by US President Donald Trump's return to the rostrum, war in Gaza and Ukraine, rising Western recognition of Palestinian statehood and nuclear tensions with Iran.

Russia launched a major drone and missile attack on Ukraine overnight, killing three people and injuring dozens, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday.

The UN Security Council voted on Friday to restore sweeping economic sanctions on Iran in response to renewed concerns over its nuclear activities, a move that drew sharp condemnation from Tehran.

The bodies of 19 people were recovered after the rubber migrant boat they were in sank off the eastern Libyan coast, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Friday.

A cyberattack at a service provider for check-in and boarding systems has disrupted operations at several major European airports including London's Heathrow, Brussels and Berlin, causing flight delays and cancellations on Saturday.

Three Russian military jets on Friday violated NATO member Estonia's airspace for 12 minutes in an "unprecedentedly brazen" incursion, its government said, amid rising tensions on the alliance's eastern flank.

The US vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution on Thursday that would have demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and that Israel lift all restrictions on aid deliveries to the Palestinian enclave.

An elderly British couple detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan in February were released and flying to Doha on Friday after Qatari mediation, an official with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Nepal’s interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki on Friday pledged to fight corruption, create jobs and raise living standards after a deadly wave of youth-led protests earlier this month toppled the prior government.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese departs for the US this week, raising expectations of a first meeting with President Donald Trump, where the AUKUS defence partnership and China are likely to dominate talks between the security allies.

A strong earthquake struck Russia's far eastern Kamchatka, the regional governor said on Friday, prompting a series of tsunami warnings in the region, but despite waves reaching the shore, there were no reports of damage.

Hundreds of thousands took part in anti-austerity protests across France on Thursday, urging President Emmanuel Macron and his new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu to acknowledge their anger and scrap looming budget cuts.

Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hailed the renewal of their nations' "special relationship" on Thursday, ending the US President's unprecedented second state visit with a show of unity after avoiding several possible pitfalls.

The Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC) Joint Defence Council has strongly condemned the Israeli military attack on Qatar, calling it a dangerous escalation and a violation of international law and the UN Charter.

Workers broke through a final, thin veil of rock on Thursday, opening an underground tunnel between Austria and Italy that will eventually become a high-speed rail line linking the north and south of Europe.

Israeli tanks were seen in two Gaza City areas that are gateways to the city centre, residents said on Thursday, while internet and phone lines were cut off across the Gaza Strip, a sign that ground operations were likely to escalate imminently.

Donald Trump meets British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday for talks designed to focus the US leader's unprecedented second state visit firmly on global affairs rather than domestic political problems.

Thai police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at Cambodian civilians in a disputed border area on Wednesday, authorities in both countries said, the most significant escalation since they declared a ceasefire to end a deadly five-day conflict in July.

Teachers, train drivers, pharmacists and hospital staff are among workers expected to strike in France on Thursday as part of a day of protests against looming budget cuts.

The Israeli military said on Wednesday it was opening an additional route for 48 hours that Palestinians could use to leave Gaza City as it stepped up efforts to empty the city of civilians and confront thousands of Hamas combatants.

King Charles greeted Donald Trump on Wednesday as the US president's historic second state visit to Britain began with unprecedented pomp, intense security, technology investments and planned protests.

Four people were arrested on Tuesday following a projection of images of Donald Trump alongside convicted financier Jeffrey Epstein onto the royal Windsor Castle, where the US President is set to be hosted by King Charles during his state visit to Britain.

A United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had incited these acts.

Landslides and heavy rain in India's Himalayan state of Uttarakhand killed at least 15 people on Tuesday, with 16 missing, Indian media reported on Wednesday.

The main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann was released from a German prison on Wednesday after serving out a seven-year sentence for an unrelated crime.

Qatar and the United States are on the verge of finalising an enhanced defence cooperation agreement, top US diplomat Marco Rubio said on Tuesday, after Israel's attack on Hamas political leaders in Doha last week drew widespread condemnation.

Israel unleashed a long-threatened ground assault on Gaza City on Tuesday, declaring "Gaza is burning" as Palestinians there described the most intense bombardment they had faced in two years of war.

US President Donald Trump sued the New York Times, four of its reporters, and publisher Penguin Random House for at least $15 billion on Monday, claiming defamation and libel, and citing reputational damage, a Florida court filing showed.

Australia urged social media platforms on Tuesday to employ "minimally invasive" methods to check the age of users covered by its world-first teen social media ban, which take into account artificial intelligence (AI) and behavioural data.

US President Donald Trump said on Monday he was not informed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in advance about Israel's attack in Qatar last week.

President Donald Trump said on Monday that the US military carried out a strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug cartel vessel heading to the country, the second such strike against a suspected drug boat in recent weeks.

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has strongly condemned a recent Israeli strike on Doha, calling it a “treacherous attack” that shocked the world.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he didn't rule out further strikes on Hamas leaders "wherever they are" as the heads of Arab and Islamic states held a summit to show support for Qatar after Israel's attack on the Gulf country last week.

Israel destroyed a score of buildings in Gaza City, killing at least 16 Palestinians, local health authorities said on Monday, while US Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the war with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

Arab foreign ministers have met in Doha to discuss a draft resolution ahead of Monday's emergency Arab-Islamic summit to discuss the recent Israeli attack on Doha that targeted Hamas leaders.

British police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old British girl who vanished in Portugal in 2007, said a 49-year-old German man remained a suspect but had refused to be interviewed.

US President Donald Trump said on Monday he would call a national emergency and federalise Washington DC after Mayor Muriel Bowser said its police would not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The man arrested in the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk is not cooperating with authorities, but investigators are working to establish a motive for the shooting by talking to his friends and family.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said people have a right to peaceful protest after more than 100,000 demonstrators joined an anti-immigration march through London on Saturday, but he condemned assaults on police.

Israeli forces destroyed at least 30 residential buildings in Gaza City and forced thousands of people from their homes, Palestinian officials said, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived on Sunday to discuss the future of the conflict.

The death toll from last week's anti-corruption protests in Nepal has risen to 72, the country's health ministry said on Sunday, as search teams continued to recover bodies from shopping malls and other buildings damaged in the unrest.

Ukraine may intentionally reduce the quality of mobile communications during Russian drone attacks to stop the networks being used to coordinate strikes, Chief of the General Staff Andriy Hnatov was quoted as saying on Sunday.

The Utah trade school student jailed on suspicion of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk faces formal charges next week, according to the governor, from an act of violence widely seen as a foreboding inflection point in US politics.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for peace on Saturday in Manipur state, the scene of two years of deadly ethnic violence, as he unveiled a package of development projects there worth nearly $1 billion.

Twelve soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan on Saturday in an ambush by rebels on an army convoy, officials said.

European Union countries have shelved plans to approve a new climate change target next week, after pushback from governments including France and Germany over plans to quickly land a deal, three EU diplomats said on Friday.

Nepal's President Ramchandra Paudel dissolved parliament and called for fresh elections on March 5, his office said late on Friday, following a week of deadly violence that culminated in the appointment of the country's first woman Prime Minister in the interim.

The UN Security Council has strongly condemned the detention of at least 21 personnel by the Houthis, as well as the forced entry into premises of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the seizure of UN property, in violation of international law.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck near the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka region on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly voted to endorse a declaration outlining "tangible, timebound, and irreversible steps" towards a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians ahead of a meeting of world leaders.

At least nine people died when a rescue boat capsized during flood relief efforts in Pakistan, authorities said on Friday.

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani will be visiting New York and Washington on Friday, and is expected to meet US officials to discuss the Israeli strike and the status of ceasefire talks in Gaza, Politico reported on Thursday.

Two people appeared to have sustained minor injuries after a United Airlines Flight 32 heading to Cebu in the Philippines made an emergency landing at an airport in Japan's western city of Osaka Friday night, Kyodo news agency reported.

A young Utah man suspected of killing the conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a university forum has been taken into custody, Governor Spencer Cox said on Friday, ending a two-day manhunt.

Nepal's former chief justice, Sushila Karki, is likely to be appointed as interim prime minister, a source aware of the talks told Reuters on Friday, after intense anti-graft protests led to the resignation of KP Sharma Oli.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced on Thursday to 27 years and three months in prison hours after being convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.

The UN Security Council condemned recent strikes on Qatar's capital Doha on Thursday, but did not mention Israel in the statement agreed to by all 15 members, including Israel's ally the US .

The Qatari capital is set to host an emergency Arab-Islamic summit next Sunday and Monday to discuss the recent Israeli attack on Doha that targeted Hamas leaders.

The sniper who killed the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was still on the loose on Friday even as investigators flooded the internet with photos and video of a man believed to have carried out Wednesday's politically charged killing at a Utah university.

The United Nations Security Council is set to meet on Friday to discuss drone incursions into its airspace that the Polish president described as an attempt by Russia to test Warsaw and NATO's response.

Qatar hit back at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a strongly worded statement early on Thursday, describing his remarks about the Gulf country's hosting of a Hamas office as "reckless".

Earthquakes that flattened villages in eastern Afghanistan this month destroyed homes and livestock, the only assets owned by most families, leaving survivors with almost nothing to rebuild as aid runs thin.

US investigators said on Thursday they had found the bolt-action rifle they believed was used to kill the influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk and released images of a "person of interest" as they searched for the shooter they described as "college age."

The death toll from this week's floods on the Indonesian island of Bali has risen to 14 people from nine, a government official said on Thursday, though the rain has stopped and water levels are receding in most areas.

Israel struck the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the northern province of al-Jawf on Wednesday, with the Houthi health ministry saying it killed 35 people and wounded 131 others.

Protesters across France obstructed highways, burned barricades and clashed sporadically with police on Wednesday in a show of anger against President Emmanuel Macron, the political elite and planned spending cuts.

Canada is evaluating its relationship with Israel after the attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar, foreign minister Anita Anand said on Wednesday, in the latest sign of unhappiness with the Israeli government.

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Israel's decision to strike Qatar was not made by him but by the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, adding that a unilateral attack on Qatar does not serve American or Israeli interests.

Soldiers patrolled the streets of Kathmandu on Wednesday, amid indefinite curfew in Nepal's capital following two days of deadly anti-graft protests that prompted Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to resign.

Floods on Indonesia's holiday island of Bali have killed at least six people this week and blocked off major roads in the capital, officials said on Wednesday, disrupting a busy travel destination.

A vaccine to protect Australia's koalas against chlamydia has been approved for the first time, a development that scientists believe could stop the spread of the deadly disease that has ravaged populations of the beloved endangered animal.

Protesters from a new movement in France staged demonstrations on highways that disrupted traffic early on Wednesday and dozens of people were arrested as security forces deployed across the country, officials said.

Poland's military said it assembled its own and NATO allied air defences to shoot down Russian drones on Wednesday after they crossed from neighbouring Ukraine, the first time in the war that Warsaw has engaged Russian assets in its airspace.

The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, has condemned in the strongest terms the aggression launched by Israel in Doha.

Qatar’s Ministry of Interior has confirmed the death of a member of its Internal Security Force following the Israeli attack on residential buildings in Doha that housed members of Hamas’ political bureau.

Qatar has strongly condemned what it calls a "cowardly Israeli attack" on residential buildings in Doha, housing members of Hamas' political bureau.

Israel launched an audacious attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar on Tuesday.

The United Nations said on Tuesday it was seeking $139.6 million to help half a million people affected by earthquakes that struck eastern Afghanistan, and it urged donors to set aside any reservations about the Taliban authorities.

Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigned on Tuesday as anti-corruption demonstrators defied an indefinite curfew and clashed with police, a day after 19 people died in violent protests triggered by a social media ban.

Thailand's influential former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was sent to prison on Tuesday after the Supreme Court ruled his hospital detention was a ploy to avoid jail, a major blow for a powerful family that has dominated politics for two decades.

A Russian airstrike killed more than 20 civilians who were collecting their pensions in a village in eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday.

Indian lawmakers began voting to elect a new vice president on Tuesday, more than a month after the last incumbent resigned abruptly.

Israel's military on Tuesday ordered Gaza City residents to evacuate ahead of a new offensive, after Israel warned it would step up its military attacks in the strip in a "mighty hurricane" if Hamas does not free the last hostages it holds.

The Global Sumud Flotilla seeking to deliver aid for Gaza said that one of its main boats was struck by a drone in Tunisian waters on Tuesday.

10 people were killed and at least 61 were injured in central Mexico when a freight train smashed into a double-decker passenger bus, which the train operator said had been attempting to pass in front of the moving train on Monday.

One of the four terminals at London's Heathrow Airport has now reopened after it was declared safe following an evacuation on Monday over what authorities called a "possible hazardous materials incident".

France's parliament voted on Monday to bring down the government over its plans to tame the ballooning national debt, deepening a political crisis and handing President Emmanuel Macron the task of finding a fifth prime minister in less than two years.

The United Nations human rights chief condemned Israel on Monday for its "mass killing" of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and "hindering of sufficient lifesaving aid", saying the country had a case to answer before the International Court of Justice.

Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people in what police described as "a terrorist attack," one of the deadliest in the city in the past few years.

Unrest killed at least 14 people and injured dozens in Nepal's capital on Monday, state TV said, as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters trying to storm parliament in anger at a social media shutdown and corruption.

A New Zealand father who had been on the run with his three children for nearly four years was shot dead by police on Monday and the children are all safe in custody, police said.

The World Health Organisation has asked Taliban authorities to lift restrictions on Afghan female aid workers, allowing them to travel without male guardians, after a powerful earthquake killed 2,200 people in eastern Afghanistan.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday suggested a Gaza deal could come soon to secure the release of all the hostages held by Hamas, after earlier issuing what he called his "last warning" to the group.

Israel's Ramon Airport near the southern city of Eilat resumed operations after being briefly shut on Sunday when a drone launched from Yemen struck the arrivals hall, Israel's Airports Authority said.

London underground workers are to begin a week of rolling strikes on Sunday, action which is set to bring the network to a standstill and cause massive disruption for travellers in the British capital.

Israel again called on Hamas to surrender on Sunday, as the military carried out strikes on Gaza's largest urban centre where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are seeking shelter.

Russia's largest overnight air attack of the war set the main building of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv on fire and left three people dead, including an infant, whose body was pulled from the rubble, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday he had decided to resign, ushering in a potentially lengthy period of policy paralysis at a shaky moment for the world's fourth-largest economy.

Problems with a cable likely caused a Lisbon funicular railway popular with tourists to hurtle down a hill, killing at least 16 people and injuring another 22 when it crashed into a building, according to a preliminary report.

Thailand's prime minister-elect on Saturday named the former Treasury Department head, the top oil and gas executive and a respected diplomat to run the finance, energy, and foreign ministries, saying his first cabinet picks would “bring confidence” to a country shaken by political and economic upheaval.

Sir Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group, will be boarding Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity and blasting off to space on Sunday.

Singapore is reviewing penalties for violent offences following an outcry over a 12-day prison sentence for a student who strangled his girlfriend until she blacked out.