China notified France before test-firing a long-range ballistic missile into the Pacific on Wednesday, authorities in French Polynesia said, adding that the weapon had landed not far from its exclusive economic zone.

A manhunt by air and ground was launched after a command post was attacked, it said, without reporting any casualties among security forces.

At least four federal probes are underway against the Democratic ex-cop, including three led by the US district court in Manhattan, investigating people in the mayor's orbit and high-ranking officials in his administration.

Australia, Canada, Germany and The Netherlands announced in New York they were initiating the proceedings, which could lead to a hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Israel widened its airstrikes in Lebanon on Wednesday and at least 72 people were killed, according to a Reuters compilation of Lebanese health ministry statements. The ministry earlier said at least 223 were wounded.

Japan's top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi declined to comment on the reports at a regular briefing because they concern military operations.

The aim is to prevent the emissions from being released into the atmosphere, and thereby help halt climate change.

US Muslim advocacy group Emgage Action on Wednesday endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris despite its ongoing concern over the war in Gaza, saying former President Donald Trump posed a greater danger with his promise to reinstate travel restrictions affecting majority-Muslim countries

Former US president Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky of refusing to "make a deal" to end his country's war with Russia

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday survived a vote of no confidence, with 211 lawmakers opposing and 120 in favor, in the first major test of his minority Liberal government

Israel widened its airstrikes in Lebanon yesterday and shot down a missile that the armed group Hezbollah said it had fired at the Mossad spy agency near Tel Aviv, ratcheting up the conflict between the two arch-foes.

Donald Trump said yesterday there were “big threats” on his life posed by Iran after the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign team said US intelligence warned him of “real and specific” threats from Tehran.

World leaders lined up at the United Nations on Tuesday to call on Israel to refrain from a full-scale war in Lebanon, with the organization’s chief warning the situation was on the “brink.”

Russia’s army said yesterday it had captured two more villages in eastern Ukraine, the latest gains for its advancing troops.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake - Sri Lanka’s new Marxist president - has said he wants to avoid being “sandwiched” between India and China but recognises each as a “valued partner”, as he tries to resolve a financial crisis that has roiled his country since 2019 and led to a sovereign default in April 2022.

Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to break his post-prison silence in an address to the Council of Europe next week, his organisation revealed yesterday.

China said it test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile yesterday, firing it into the Pacific Ocean in its first such exercise in decades.

Hezbollah’s flexible chain of command, together with its extensive tunnel network and a vast arsenal of missiles and weapons it has bolstered over the past year, is helping it weather unprecedented Israeli strikes, sources familiar with the Lebanese militant group’s operations said.

Foreign diplomats from 15 countries were allowed to observe local elections in India’s Jammu and Kashmir yesterday, as New Delhi highlighted the first vote in the disputed Himalayan territory in a decade.

Israel yesterday returned the bodies of 88 Palestinians killed in its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, which the territory’s health ministry refused to bury before Israel discloses details about who they are and where it killed them.