Iran’s military said yesterday it launched drone strikes targeting US military facilities in Kuwait, as fighting resumed between Washington and Tehran in the Middle East war after a nearly week-long lull.

UN says authorities assessing safety and pollution risks

Interior ministry reports rapid departures following recent border surge

At the gates into Ceuta, Moroccan authorities deployed water cannon trucks and pushed people back

Talks focus on Strait of Hormuz and de-escalation, says Pakistan Foreign Ministry official

Israeli forces will withdraw, and the International Stabilization Force will work with a new Palestinian police force to take responsibility for Gaza, he says

Nine civilians were killed in a drone attack Wednesday, a medical source told AFP, two days after paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo said he had “unleashed” his Rapid Support Forces.

Russia pounded Ukraine with dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones, killing eight people in overnight attacks yesterday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, decrying shortages of air defence supplies and urging allies to help.

The US military said it struck dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard targets in Iran, including military command centres and drone facilities, in a two-hour operation launched after Tehran fired ballistic missiles at US forces in the Middle East.

France, Spain and Greece battled major wildfires yesterday as soaring temperatures, parched vegetation and powerful winds extended a summer of deadly fires, mass evacuations and mounting disruption across Europe.

A regional branch of the Islamic State group has claimed a rare deadly attack on a Taliban official in northeastern Afghanistan, a monitoring group said.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed charges against 13 people in connection with leaked question papers for the national medical college entrance test, days after youth-led protests over the scandal forced the education minister to quit.

New Zealand’s top diplomat Winston Peters drew the ire of Beijing’s ambassador in Wellington yesterday after telling a lawmaker of Chinese descent to “go back to your own country”.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is preparing a major spending push to help Republicans retain control of Congress in November’s midterm elections, Axios reported yesterday.

Japanese emergency workers searched tirelessly for survivors at a wrecked shopping mall yesterday, as the death toll from a major earthquake hit 34 and tens of thousands were left without power in punishing heat.

Israeli strikes killed at least four people, including two children, in the Gaza Strip yesterday, health officials said, as mediators held new talks with Hamas leaders to work towards full implementation of a US-brokered Gaza peace plan.

Armed militants killed nine police officers in an attack on a checkpoint in northern Pakistan on Wednesday that also left 15 of the gunmen dead in ensuing fighting, police said yesterday.

As the Iran war escalates, Gulf Arab states are turning to China—not Washington—to use its economic leverage over Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea. Their push reflects frustration that US‑Israeli strikes since February 28 have hurt Iran but also disrupted Gulf energy exports and exposed them to retaliation.

Matar was also convicted of supporting the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, after investigators found materials from the organization at his home.

The Bell 412 aircraft had been training before heading to a neighboring province to help put out days-long fires when it crashed in Ischigualasto natural park.