Israel yesterday stepped up strikes on Gaza killing at least 266 Palestinians as fears of a wider conflict grew.

An extreme drought in parts of the Amazon has led to a dramatic drop in river water levels, exposing dozens of usually submerged rock formations with carvings of human forms that may date back some 2,000 years.

Russian missile strikes killed at least six postal workers and wounded 17 others Saturday when they hit a mail depot in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, officials said.

An Iranian Revolutionary Court has handed out long prison sentences to two women journalists over their coverage of the death in custody of Mahsa Amini last year, state media reported yesterday.

South Korea, the United States and Japan carried out their first joint aerial drills yesterday, Seoul’s military said. The exercise, which involved a US nuclear-weapons-capable B-52 bomber, comes as Seoul, Washington, and Tokyo beef up their defence cooperation against growing missile and nuclear threats from North Korea.

The lives of at least 120 newborn babies on incubators in war-torn Gaza’s hospitals are at risk as fuel runs out in the besieged enclave, the UN children’s agency warned yesterday.

On October 15, Iran issued a stinging public ultimatum to its arch-enemy Israel: Halt your onslaught on Gaza or we’ll be forced to take action, its foreign minister warned.

A second convoy of aid trucks entered the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing on Sunday, heading towards the Gaza Strip, according to Egyptian security and humanitarian sources

Israel's military has warned Gaza residents that they risk being identified as accomplices "in a terrorist organisation" if they do not move south, Palestinians there said, amid growing humanitarian fears with little aid being allowed in

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Parliament also condoled and mourned the victims of earthquakes in Morocco and Afghanistan, floods in Libya, and floods in Sikkim

Russia has called another UN Security Council meeting after failing to comply with US sanctions for the first time. Saudi news agency Al Arabiya reported this information

At least 4,651 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attacks on Israel, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry said Sunday

Israel has vowed to wipe out the Hamas Islamist group that rules Gaza after its gunmen rampaged through Israeli towns and kibbutzim, killing 1,400 people, mainly civilians

With the Israel-Hamas conflict unleashing furious emotions, American universities have struggled to walk an almost impossibly narrow line: satisfying the demands of rich donors that they more clearly support Israel, while also respecting protesters' rights of free expression

India today sent around 6.5 tonnes of medical aid and 32 tonnes of disaster relief material for Palestinians in war-torn Gaza, the country's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said

On October 15, Iran issued a stinging public ultimatum to its arch-enemy Israel: Halt your onslaught on Gaza or we'll be forced to take action, its foreign minister warned

Israeli strikes on Sunday put out of service war-torn Syria's two main airports, state media reported citing a military source, with the transport ministry saying flights were re-routed to Latakia

The Hamas government said Sunday that at least 55 people were killed in overnight raids on the Gaza Strip, after Israel announced it was stepping up strikes

Escalating attacks by militant group Hezbollah risk "dragging Lebanon into a war", Israel's military said Sunday, after renewed cross-border exchanges of fire that have raised fears of a wider conflict