Many were arrested, according to AFP journalists, but no official data was immediately available.

Lebanon's official National News Agency reported one girl among five people killed in an Israeli strike during the day on the southern town of Touline.

Moscow has rejected a joint US-Ukraine proposal for a full and unconditional 30-day ceasefire, suggesting instead halting aerial strikes on energy facilities.

The 88-year-old head of the Catholic Church was "very happy" to hear his health had improved sufficiently

Agents who pursue drug traffickers and tax fraud are being reassigned to enforce immigration law.

Israel conducted deadly strikes on Lebanon yesterday in response to a rocket attack from across the border, as militant group Hezbollah denied responsibility for the launch. 

US President Donald Trump made good Friday on a threat to revoke the security clearances of his predecessor Joe Biden and several senior former White House and national security officials.

Japan, South Korea and China agreed Saturday that peace on the Korean peninsula was a shared responsibility, Seoul’s foreign minister said, in a meeting of the three countries’ top diplomats in which they pledged to promote cooperation.

More than 340 people were arrested following Turkey’s biggest street protests in over a decade sparked by the detention of Istanbul’s powerful opposition mayor, a minister said Saturday.

Pakistan detained a leading female Baloch rights activist on Saturday for holding a sit-in in southwestern Balochistan at which three protesters were also killed, police said. 

Russian attacks killed a family of three late on Friday in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia and four more people in the country’s north and east, officials said. 

At least three firefighters and a public servant have been killed in a wildfire in South Korea, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency in southeastern regions, authorities said yesterday. 

The US said Friday it was terminating the legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, giving them weeks to leave the country. 

Moscow is hoping to achieve “some progress” at talks in Saudi Arabia tomorrow, a Russian negotiator told state media some 48 hours before the United States meets delegations from both Ukraine and Russia in a bid to halt the three-year conflict.

Heathrow Airport said it was “fully operational” yesterday but there were some delays and cancellations as Europe’s busiest air hub resumed operations a day after a power station fire caused travel mayhem.

Japan, China, and South Korea agree to promote peace, cooperation

The two countries mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations this year

The Ivy League university in New York City acquiesced to several demands in a 4,000-word message from its interim president released on Friday.

The warning came as Israel pressed the renewed assault it launched on Tuesday, shattering the relative calm since a January 19 ceasefire.

The move, effective April 24, cuts short a two-year "parole" granted to the migrants under former President Joe Biden that allowed them to enter the country by air if they had US sponsors.