The Friday afternoon strike hit the village of Letpanhla around 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of the country's second biggest city of Mandalay.

A senior Hamas official said Tuesday fresh talks had begun in Doha, with Israel also sending negotiators.

The statement gave no details on when the next round of US-Russia talks, which are being hosted by Saudi Arabia, would begin.

Local news showed roofs torn off homes and large trucks overturned, as forecasters warned of more tornadoes to come this weekend.

Trump also warned Iran, the Houthis' main backer, that it needed to immediately halt support for the group

Cuba suffered a general blackout on Friday caused by a crash of its national electricity grid, officials said, the fourth major power outage on the cash-strapped communist island in five months.

At least 14 people were dead and dozens injured after violent tornadoes swept across the central United States, officials said yesterday.

The US decision to expel South Africa’s ambassador was “regrettable,” the office of the South African president said yesterday, after Washington’s top diplomat accused the envoy of hating America and President Donald Trump.

Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday launched his term in office with a whole-hearted rejection of US President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to annex his northern neighbor.

President Vladimir Putin has called for beleaguered Ukrainian troops in the Russian region of Kursk to “surrender” as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Russian leader of seeking to sabotage a ceasefire initiative.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said nine people including journalists were killed in Israeli strikes in the north yesterday, an attack Hamas denounced as a “blatant violation” of the fragile ceasefire.

Iraqi security forces have killed a senior Islamic State (IS) group leader responsible for foreign operations, according to the country’s prime minister, with US President Donald Trump saying later Friday his “miserable life was terminated”.

UK premier Keir Starmer yesterday said the “ball was in Russia’s court” and that President Vladimir Putin would “sooner or later” have to “come to the table,” after a virtual summit to drum up support for a coalition willing to protect any eventual ceasefire in Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump’s administration is mulling a new travel ban that would affect citizens from dozens of countries to varying degrees, the New York Times reported Friday.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk yesterday said its massive Starship rocket would leave for Mars at the end of 2026 with Tesla humanoid robot Optimus onboard, adding that human landings could follow “as soon as 2029.”

The memo lists a total of 41 countries divided into three separate groups

The move appeared intended to discourage Thailand and other countries from such deportations

Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday launched his term in office with a whole-hearted rejection of US President Donald Trump's repeated threats to annex his northern neighbor

Trump said CNN, MSNBC and unidentified newspapers 'literally write 97.6 percent bad about me'

'South Africa's Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country', secretary says