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US President Donald Trump said on Monday a deal with Iran has been agreed and the text of the deal will be released sometime after the formal signing in Switzerland on Friday.

Fighting in southern Lebanon eased on Monday after the US-Iran deal to end the wider conflict was announced, but an Israeli drone strike killed one person and authorities warned displaced people not to rush home as Israel said it would keep troops in the south.

A Ukrainian man was found guilty on Monday of carrying out arson attacks on property connected to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in May last year on behalf of a mystery figure he knew only as "EL Money".

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would ban social media sites for under-16s and impose restrictions on gaming and live-streaming platforms, in a fightback against big tech that goes further than any other country.

US and Iranian officials said they had agreed on a framework to end their war, halt the US blockade of Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a preliminary pact that sent oil prices falling but leaves the fate of Iran's nuclear programme to further negotiations.

A 1,000-year-old monastery that symbolises Ukraine's spiritual and cultural heritage was badly damaged on Monday in a major attack by Russia that killed 10 people nationwide, hours after Donald Trump spoke to the leaders of both countries about ending the war.

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Monday, the Philippine state seismology agency Phivolcs said.

The stepson of Norway's Crown Prince Haakon has been found guilty of two counts of sexual assault as well as domestic violence and other crimes and is sentenced to four years in prison, an Oslo court ruled on Monday.

President Donald Trump criticised an Israeli strike on Lebanon that could complicate attempts to finalise a framework deal between the United States and Iran on Sunday on ending their war, but said an agreement was nonetheless close.

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 782 after 72 new cases were documented in 24 hours, one of the biggest single-day jumps during the ongoing outbreak, government data showed on Sunday.

Israel said its military attacked Hezbollah targets in Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday after the group fired into Israeli territory.

Eleven skydivers and a pilot have died in the crash of a private plane on Sunday in Butler, Missouri, aircraft operator Skydive Kansas City said.

Geneva police on Sunday fired teargas at protesters who set fire to a Tesla vehicle and smashed windows at a United Nations agency as they vented their anger at a Group of Seven summit about to take place across the border in France.

Switzerland on Sunday rejected a proposal to cap its population at 10 million as voters prioritised economic stability and ties with the European Union over worries immigration was stretching public services and pushing up rents.

Ukraine hit an oil facility overnight in Russia's Yaroslavl region, and the Azot chemical plant in the Tula region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X on Sunday.

Sirens sounded in Jordan, state TV reported early on Sunday, before the Public Security Directorate said a technical malfunction was to blame and a fault in one of the sirens was being repaired.

An Indian military aircraft crashed on Saturday during a routine flight, killing all five people on board, the Indian Air Force said in a social media post on X.

A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and sparked a fire at a sea terminal in the southern Russian port of Temryuk, in the Krasnodar region, governor Veniamin Kondratiev said on Saturday on the Telegram messaging app.

President Donald Trump on Friday said US forces carried out a strike that killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as Niño Guerrero, the leader of Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.

Qatar’s International Media Office has strongly denied allegations published by The Washington Post claiming that the country’s energy production decisions were coordinated with Iran or intended to influence regional developments.

Hopes grew on Friday for peace between Iran and the US after President Donald Trump said a deal could be signed as soon as this weekend, even as Tehran said it had not made a final decision on a pact.

Families of the 260 people killed when an Air India Boeing 787 crashed in Ahmedabad a year ago gathered on Friday for prayers and a candlelight tribute to mark the anniversary of the disaster.

Two Ebola-related deaths have been confirmed in a displacement camp in eastern Congo, the UN refugee agency said, with aid workers warning the risk of the disease spreading quickly in crowded refugee sites was high and worrying.

A blaze broke out at Wellington Airport in the capital of New Zealand on Friday, forcing evacuations from the main terminal and flight diversions.

Ukraine and Russia exchanged overnight drone strikes into early Friday, with Ukraine targeting a major oil processing and petrochemical region while Russia attacked railway stations and electrical substations.

Authorities in Afghanistan's western city of Herat arrested at least 30 women, accusing them of violating dress rules imposed by the Taliban government, the UN said in a statement, adding that some were later released.

US President Donald Trump called off plans for renewed military strikes on Iran at the last minute on Thursday, saying negotiations with Tehran had advanced to the highest levels of Iran's leadership and had been approved by a broad coalition of regional powers.

A South Korean court has sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison on Friday for charges linked to his ordering an incursion of military drones over North Koreato help create a pretext for his failed December 2024 martial law declaration.

Thailand's Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati, the eldest child of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, has died at 47, the royal palace said on Friday, after multiple health problems and nearly four years in a coma.

A US jet fired two missiles into the engine room of the tanker Jalveer off Oman on Thursday, US Central Command confirmed, as authorities said the 20 crew members were safe after the third strike on Indian-crewed tankers this week.

British defence minister John Healey quit on Thursday in a dispute over military spending, accusing Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failing to commit the government resources that are needed to defend the country at a time of heightened threat.

A false alarm at the Pentagon following an air quality warning briefly triggered a partial shelter-in-place order on Wednesday at the US military's headquarters, as first responders worked to rule out exposure to hazardous materials, officials said.

The United States will hit Iran "very hard tonight" and will soon take control of the Middle Eastern country's oil and gas infrastructure and markets, US President Donald Trump said on Thursday.

The US and Iran have traded air attacks on Thursday for a second straight day, with President Donald Trump vowing further strikes if Tehran does not immediately agree to a peace deal.

Bahrain's Interior Ministry said on Thursday that an 11-year-old girl suffered minor injuries, while vehicles caught fire and homes were damaged in Hamad Town and the capital Manama after debris fell from Iranian drones that were intercepted and destroyed.

Philippine law enforcement launched on Thursday an investigation into the deaths of two student athletes from a top university basketball team, in a case that has drawn widespread attention in a country where the sport is hugely popular.

Kuwait has reopened its airspace after temporarily closing it early Thursday following Iranian strikes on the country.

Canada has introduced a digital safety bill on Wednesday that will ban social media for children under 16 with exemptions for platforms that meet certain safety standards, months after Australia enacted the world's first ban for young people.

Congo's Ebola outbreak has spread to a new health zone in the northeastern province of Ituri, authorities said on Wednesday, as fresh infections underline sustained transmission more than three weeks after the epidemic was declared.

The Gulf Cooperation Council's Ministerial Council has strongly condemned the Iranian drone and ballistic missile attacks targeting Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan.

Three Indian seafarers are still missing after 21 other Indian mariners were rescued following an attack on their tanker off the coast of Oman, India's foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday Iran had taken too long to negotiate a deal and would now "have to pay the price," while Tehran said it would reassess diplomatic engagement with Washington after overnight tit-for-tat strikes.

At least 12 people were killed and nine injured on Tuesday evening when gunmen opened fire at an informal settlement in Cleveland, east of Johannesburg, police said on Wednesday.

Masked men burned families out of their homes in Belfast in a wave of anti-immigrant violence on Tuesday night after a Sudanese man was charged over a knife attack, Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O’Neill said.

At least 13 people have been killed after Pakistan's military launched air strikes in three Afghan provinces, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Wednesday, in a renewal of a conflict that has killed hundreds this year.

The Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday has confirmed that Ebola cases had climbed to nearly 600, with 115 deaths recorded, as it raises awareness within the local population about the importance of safety measures.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards has carried out attacks against a US base in Jordan and 21 other targets in the Gulf on Wednesday in retaliation for American strikes around the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian media reported.

Mexico City students will get an unexpected day off from school on Thursday, as President Claudia Sheinbaum ordered the suspension of classes in an effort to minimise traffic on the day the Mexican national team plays the World Cup opener against South Africa.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Iran shot down a US Apache helicopter that was patrolling the Strait of Hormuz overnight and vowed to respond, but gave no other details.

NASA on Tuesday named three US astronauts and an Italian astronaut to serve as the crew for its next Artemis mission, a spacecraft docking demonstration in Earth's orbit that will test landers from Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin for the first time in space.

Israel has struck the historic port city of Tyre in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killing at least eight people, the Lebanese health ministry said, and minutes later ordered the evacuation of the entire city for the first time.

In a first, a Navy surface drone found and rescued two crew members from an Army Apache attack helicopter that went down in waters near Oman's coast, the US military told Reuters, and President Donald Trump said the pilots were 'fine'.

Kenyan police fired tear gas on Tuesday and detained protesters demonstrating against a quarantine centre for Americans exposed to Ebola that the US has raced to build despite Kenyan court orders barring further work.

Iran and Israel said on Monday they had halted attacks on each other following an appeal from US President Donald Trump that they immediately "stop shooting", though Tehran said it would resume strikes if Israel continued to hit Lebanon.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and China's Xi Jinping agreed to expand cooperation in the areas of politics, economy and culture at a summit in Pyongyang that opened a new chapter in ties, the North's official KCNA news agency said on Tuesday.

Rescuers have searched the rubble of a collapsed building on Tuesday in the southern Philippine city of General Santos, the worst hit by a powerful earthquake that has killed at least 37 people and injured hundreds, to reach two people still believed to be trapped inside.

Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed on Monday that Ebola deaths had climbed to 101, with a total of 550 recorded cases as the presence of armed groups continues to hinder the response in its hardest-hit province.

Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region killed three people, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday, while Russia-annexed Crimea said it was repelling drone attacks.

A historically strong earthquake has struck off Cuba's northwest coast on Monday, according to official reports, shaking parts of Cuba, Mexico and Florida that are typically not prone to quakes.

Israel said on Monday it hit a petrochemical plant in Iran's southwest, along with strikes elsewhere on military targets, after US President Donald Trump reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from further attacks.

The death toll in a powerful 7.8‑magnitude earthquake off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Monday has risen to at least 32 with dozens of people injured, disaster officials said, as Manila stepped up search and rescue operations.

Ties between China and North Korea are at a "new historical starting point", President Xi Jinping said on Monday in remarks published in the neighbour's state media as he arrived in Pyongyang for a rare summit with leader Kim Jong Un.

Iraq and Syria's civil aviation authorities have announced the temporary closure of their airspace as a precautionary measure following regional tensions.

Jordan's airspace has been breached by several rockets on Sunday evening following a renewed military escalation in the region, according to its Minister of Government Communication and government spokesperson Mohammad Momani.

A Russian attack has killed five and injured fourteen in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, the regional governor said on Telegram on Monday.

The Japanese city of Utsunomiya has suspended all 94 of the primary and middle schools that it operates on Monday after its first-ever bear sighting, a municipal official said.

At least 21 Iraqis have been killed and 19 others injured when a passenger bus crashed and caught fire near the southern city of Nassiriya on Sunday, police and health officials said.

Iran launched missiles towards Israel on Sunday for the first time since a ceasefire was agreed in April, raising concerns that the fragile truce could be unravelling.

Israel struck the outskirts of Beirut on Sunday for the first time since the US announced a truce plan for Lebanon last week, and an Iranian lawmaker threatened to retaliate, putting talks to end the wider war into new jeopardy.

Israel's military said on Sunday its police criminal investigation unit was investigating the killing of a Palestinian infant by an Israeli soldier in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The US naval blockade of Iran and its green light on Sunday for Israel to escalate attacks in Lebanon make US bases and Israeli assets in the Middle East legitimate targets, Iran's top negotiator said in a post on X.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the United Kingdom on Sunday for a series of high-level meetings focused on the war in Ukraine, European security and diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.

Israeli strikes on a Hamas-run police station and a vehicle in the Gaza Strip killed at least nine people and wounded 20 others, health officials said, as mediators began new efforts to salvage a fragile US-brokered ceasefire deal.

Kuwaiti air defences were ​intercepting missile and drone attacks of undisclosed origin, state media reported, while in Bahrain sirens sounded and residents were urged to seek shelter after US and Iran exchanged fire.

Nigeria's security forces have freed 360 men, women, and children from a mountain hideout where they were being held by kidnappers in Borno state in the northeast, after an intelligence-led operation, the military said on Sunday.

A gunman in a car opened fire at three locations in Israel close to the border with the occupied West Bank on Sunday, killing one man and wounding several other people, Israeli authorities said.

The US government will attempt to redirect Iranian assets to Gulf states for rebuilding and repairs of damage caused by Iran, a source familiar with the matter said, as Tehran followed up a wave of strikes against Kuwait and Bahrain with further drone launches.

A Russian drone has struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine's disused Chornobyl power plant, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday, adding that radiation levels at the site remained stable.

An Israeli strike killed at least seven Palestinians including two women in Gaza on Saturday, health officials said, as mediators restarted talks in Cairo with Hamas and other factions over safeguarding a strained ceasefire agreement.

Kuwait has reopened its airspace after closing it for a couple of hours on Saturday morning following Iran's missile and drone attacks.

Israeli forces killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby and wounded his parents in the Tel Rumeida area south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday evening, the Palestinian health ministry said.

The founder of India's viral Cockroach Janta Party led a street protest in New Delhi on Saturday demanding the resignation of the federal education minister, taking the online youth movement from social media to the streets for the first time in a show of dissent against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

Two Lebanese army officers and a soldier were killed in an Israeli strike on a military vehicle in south Lebanon on Saturday, the Lebanese army said, while the Israeli military said it was investigating the incident.

North Korea plans to build a 10,000-ton destroyer and develop secret underwater weapons, state media said on Saturday, ahead of a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Russia's nuclear energy corporation Rosatom said on Friday that a Ukrainian drone had deliberately struck engineers demining an area around the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, injuring at least three people.

US President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully barred applicants from 39 travel‑ban countries from receiving decisions on asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station prompted five astronauts to take shelter and prepare for evacuation for roughly two hours on Friday as Russia attempted to fix a crack on its portion of the orbital laboratory, NASA said.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has announced a $518 million six-month joint plan to fight Ebola, calling for money and political commitment to halt the spread of the outbreak that is already the fourth biggest on record.

US President Donald Trump has stated on Thursday that Washington did not need a deal with Iran to get enriched uranium from the country.

The United Nations on Friday said it is doubling the amount of money it says it needs to help Lebanon meet surging humanitarian needs, as the war enters its fourth month.

China said on Friday President Xi Jinping would visit North Korea on a two-day trip from June 8, his first in nearly seven years as Beijing looks to reassert ties with Pyongyang, its only formal treaty ally.

The Iran-backed Hezbollah militia rejected a new ceasefire in Lebanon on Thursday and Israel said it would not withdraw troops from the country, undermining US President Donald Trump's efforts to halt fighting there to forge peace with Tehran.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has published an open letter to President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in which he proposed the two leaders meet to agree an end to more than four years of war, warning that Kyiv stood ready to fight on otherwise.

Russia and Uzbekistan have began the construction of a nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan on Thursday, the first of its kind in post-Soviet Central Asia, the Kremlin said, to help meet the growing regional demand for power.

Several staff members were injured when the nose gear of a Boeing jetliner unexpectedly collapsed at a gate at Frankfurt airport on Thursday, its operator Lufthansa said.

A dozen people have died in a fire at a home for elderly people in Sri Lanka, while another eight have been hospitalised.

Israel will continue to strike Lebanon for the time being and won't be withdrawing from the south, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday, after Lebanon and Israel agreed to a ceasefire contingent on Hezbollah halting attacks.

Israeli strikes killed at least nine Palestinians, including five members of the same family, in separate attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's ruling Democratic Party swept most major local races in elections held on Wednesday, but suffered a symbolic setback as the opposition conservative incumbent Oh Se-hoon won another term as Seoul mayor.

The government in the Indian capital city of Delhi will launch a crackdown on properties violating fire safety norms after a hotel fire killed 21 people on Wednesday, including 12 foreign nationals, the chief minister's office said.

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs has handed a formal protest note to Iran’s acting chargé d’affaires in the country, addressing the continued Iranian missile and drone attacks.

All members of the European Union agreed to open talks with Ukraine and Moldova on the first cluster of issues in their accession talks, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said early on Thursday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for an "exponential" expansion of the country's atomic arsenal during a visit to a newly operational nuclear material production factory, state media agency KCNA said on Thursday.

An Iranian drone and missile attack struck Kuwait's international airport, forcing authorities on Wednesday to suspend air traffic and divert flights to nearby airports until further notice.

The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday elected Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zimbabwe to the 15-member UN Security Council for two-year terms starting on January 1, 2027.

Three British Royal Navy crewmembers have died in a helicopter crash in southwest England, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement on Wednesday.

The Israeli military said it had intercepted rockets fired by Hezbollah into Israel on Wednesday, while Lebanese security sources said an Israeli strike hit a car near Beirut, testing a US-mediated deal that aims to get the sides to curb attacks.

At least 21 people, including 12 foreign nationals, were killed in a fire at a hotel in Delhi on Wednesday in one of the worst such incidents in the Indian capital since 2022.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that the US would re-engage with the global vaccine alliance Gavi amid the Ebola outbreak in several African countries.

An Israeli fire has killed at least four Palestinians in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza health officials said.

Philippine President Marcos Jr. called on the Senate to "get back to work," expressing disbelief on Wednesday that an impasse in the upper chamber has stalled urgent legislative duties ahead of a congressional break.

Bolivia's defence minister has stepped down on Tuesday after a month of anti-government protests, two government sources said, marking the highest-level departure yet under centrist President Rodrigo Paz who is himself facing calls to resign.

Iran is reviewing a proposed agreement with the United States to halt the war between the two countries, Iran's Mehr news reported on Tuesday, after US President Donald Trump said talks to reach a deal were continuing.

The World Health Organisation said there have been 321 confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo outbreak and 116 suspected cases, marking a large drop in the number of suspected cases as hundreds were ruled out after investigation.

Israel kept up strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday, pressing its campaign against Hezbollah a day after US President Donald Trump asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to attack Beirut, averting further escalation in the three-month-old war.

Russia has pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles early on Tuesday, killing 23 people and wounding 130, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow could launch a new assault for the second night in a row.

Two people died in central Kenya during a protest against a planned US Ebola quarantine facility, a protest organiser told Reuters on Tuesday, as President William Ruto rebuffed criticism it will endanger Kenyans.

The United Nations weather agency forecast on Tuesday a moderate or possibly a strong El Nino that could drive up global temperatures and increase the risk of extreme weather over the coming months.

A gunman has killed six members of his family, then took his own life, during a spate of shootings on Monday in the eastern Iowa city of Muscatine, a waterfront town situated across the Mississippi River from Illinois, police said.

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Israel would not send troops to Beirut after a call he held with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Global health organisation CEPI will give roughly $60 million to Moderna and two other groups to accelerate the development of shots against Ebola Bundibugyo, the deadly virus that has swept through eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

A tour bus driver has been charged with manslaughter stemming from the deaths of five people in a fiery chain-reaction crash that police say was triggered when the motor coach ploughed into slower-moving traffic in a highway construction zone.

Iran is halting indirect negotiations with the US after Israel ordered troops to push deeper into Lebanon to battle Tehran-backed Hezbollah, the Iranian news agency Tasnim said on Monday, complicating diplomatic efforts to end three months of war.

President Donald Trump on Monday said that Iran really wanted to make a deal with the US and that it would be a good one for Washington and its allies.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered attacks on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday, signalling further escalation of a war that has complicated mediation towards resolving the US-Iran conflict.

Malaysia has begun barring those aged under 16 from registering accounts on social media platforms, its communications regulator said on Monday, as it boosts efforts to protect minors from exposure to harmful content online.

Kuwait's Chief of the General Army Staff announced its air defence forces intercepted hostile missile and drone attacks early on Monday.

The US has stated on Sunday it conducted "self-defence strikes" on Iranian radar and drone control sites in Iran's Goruk and Qeshm Island at the weekend in what it said was a response to "aggressive" actions from Tehran.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spoke with both Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the diplomatic negotiations between Israel and Lebanon and has proposed a plan to allow for "gradual de-escalation", a US official said on Sunday.

Five people have died and two others were injured on Monday after an explosion and fire on a South Korean production line for rocket propellant at a factory operated by Hanwha Aerospace in the city of Daejeon, officials said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he had ordered troops to move further into Lebanon in the battle against Hezbollah, despite a ceasefire announced more than six weeks ago.

Four nurses who were being treated for Ebola caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus have been discharged from a hospital in Bunia in the Democratic Republic of Congo after recovering from the disease, the World Health Organisation said on Sunday.

At least 55 people were reportedly killed in a blast in Myanmar's Kaung Tat village, which a rebel army said was caused by the accidental explosion of material stored for use in mining.

The US military has announced that it fired a missile into the engine room of a vessel trying to get through the US blockade of Iran on Friday.

More than 200 people were injured and one person died in Paris following Paris Saint-Germain's second consecutive Champions League win, the interior ministry said on Sunday, reviving France's heated debate about street violence.

A mine shaft collapse during an illegal mining operation in China's southwestern Yunnan province killed five people and injured one, state media reported, days after the country's deadliest mining accident since 2009 left at least 82 dead.

Israeli troops have seized the 900-year-old Beaufort Castle and its strategic ridge in southern Lebanon, the military said on Sunday, a major advance against Hezbollah despite a ceasefire announced more than six weeks ago.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has travelled on Saturday to the Congolese province hardest hit by an Ebola outbreak, urging residents to seek treatment and practice safe burials as officials scramble to contain the fatal disease.

Rescuers pulled four people from a flooded cave in Laos on Saturday, Thai volunteers said, hours after another man was brought out late on Friday.

Health authorities in Brazil's Sao Paulo state are investigating a suspected case of Ebola reported on Saturday in the state capital, officials said.

Zambia has investigated and cleared two suspected cases of Ebola as it steps up screening and surveillance for the deadly viral disease following an outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

The US is ready to restart attacks on Iran if a deal cannot be reached, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday, as negotiators from Washington and Tehran worked to bridge major differences blocking an agreement.

Flights were halted for about an hour at Munich Airport in southern Germany on Saturday morning after two pilots reported seeing a drone, airport authorities and police said, confirming initial reports by German media.

Less than two months after he completed a carefully engineered transition from Myanmar's junta chief to become president, Min Aung Hlaing will fly to India on an official visit on Saturday, his first overseas visit since taking the civilian role.

Three Latvian climbers fell to their deaths on Mount McKinley in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve, while a fourth team member survived and was rescued, a climbing organization from their home country said on Friday.

Five people were killed and more than 40 others injured, three critically, after a tour bus plowed into a sport utility vehicle on Friday, triggering a fiery, chain-reaction crash on a US highway in Northern Virginia.

US President Donald Trump said he would make a final decision on Friday over a deal with Iran to extend their ceasefire that would need to include opening the Strait of Hormuz and dismantling Tehran's capacity to make a nuclear weapon.

Kenyan authorities have arrested eight students on suspicion of arson over a fire at a girls' boarding school that killed 16 students, police said on Friday.

Hamas said on Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's declaration that his country would expand its area of control in Gaza was a dangerous escalation, as European states and residents of the Palestinian territory also voiced alarm at the plan.

NATO accused Moscow on Friday of reckless behaviour and pledged to "defend every inch of Allied territory" after Romania said a Russian drone had crashed into an apartment block in the alliance member state during an attack on neighbouring Ukraine.

US Vice President JD Vance has told reporters on Thursday that Washington was "not there yet" with Iran on an agreement but that the parties were close, adding that the US was in a position where it could substantially set back Tehran's nuclear program.

A team of specialist divers said they pulled one man from a flooded cave in central Laos on Friday, as four more people remained trapped with two others still missing.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated he had directed Israel's military to "take more of Gaza" on Thursday, initially by seizing 70 per cent of the Palestinian territory, where the population is already penned into a tiny strip of land along the coast.

France has asked for the public prosecutor to investigate the treatment of French nationals who were part of a recent activist flotilla heading for Gaza, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Friday.

At least 52 guerrilla fighters were killed in clashes between two rival armed groups vying for control of a strategic cocaine production and trafficking region in Colombia, a faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) involved in the fighting said in a statement on Thursday.

An uncrewed Blue Origin New Glenn rocket has exploded on a Florida launchpad during a test on Thursday, in a major setback for Jeff Bezos’ space venture as it seeks to narrow the gap with Elon Musk's IPO-bound SpaceX.

One person has been killed and two injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Volgograd region, governor Andrey Bocharov said on Friday.

A Kenyan high court has ordered the temporary suspension of plans for the United States to set up an Ebola quarantine facility in the country.

The US and Iran have reached an outline agreement to extend their ceasefire pending the approval of President Donald Trump, according to an Axios report, after Iran targeted a US air base in Kuwait in the wake of US strikes on Iranian drone operation.

A fire tore through a dormitory at a girls' secondary school in a town in Kenya's Rift Valley overnight, killing 16 students, the government said on Thursday.

An Israeli strike hit a building in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Thursday, the first strike to hit near Beirut in weeks amid a ceasefire that has failed to halt fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah in south Lebanon.

Kenya has approved a request from the US to open a quarantine facility for Americans exposed to Ebola, two US officials told Reuters on Thursday, as the head of the World Health Organisation was travelling to the epicentre of the outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo.

Kuwait's Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the Iranian attacks targeting its territories with missiles and drones, describing it as a dangerous escalation and a blatant violation of the country's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity.

Iran targeted a US air base on Thursday after the United States struck what Washington described as an Iranian drone operation near the Strait of Hormuz and President Donald Trump rejected a reported compromise deal with Tehran.

Average global temperatures are forecast to reach near-record levels in the next five years, with Arctic temperatures expected to warm faster than other regions, a report by the UN weather agency and the UK’s Met Office said on Thursday.

The leader of a Thai volunteer group helping to ‌extract seven people trapped ⁠in a cave in Laos ​said on Thursday that more oxygen tanks would be needed to complete the rescue mission.

Tehran would restore shipping through the Strait of Hormuz to pre-war levels within a month in a framework deal with the US to also include withdrawing US forces from Iran's vicinity, Iranian state television reported on Wednesday.

Uganda has closed its border with neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo with immediate effect to try to limit the spread of Ebola, Uganda's government said on Wednesday.

Five people who had been trapped inside a cave in Laos for about a week were found alive on Wednesday, as dozens of Lao and Thai rescuers continued to search for two others, Thai volunteers said.

Israeli raids targeting several areas across Lebanon on Tuesday killed 31 people and wounded 40 others, Lebanon's health ministry said, in one of the heaviest days of bombing in weeks.

A commission was launched in the Philippines on Wednesday led by a former International Criminal Court judge to investigate a bloody "war on drugs", aiming to document alleged extrajudicial killings and compile evidence for potential legal cases.

Israel said on Wednesday it had killed Hamas's newly appointed armed wing chief in Gaza, days after it killed his predecessor, while intensifying military pressure in Gaza and expanding operations in Lebanon.

Syria's transitional leadership has located remnants of former President Bashar al-Assad's clandestine chemical weapons programme, including raw materials and munitions similar to those used to carry out deadly gas attacks during the country's long-running civil war.

A chemical tank imploded and ruptured at a Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility in the US state of Washington on Tuesday, resulting in one death and nine injuries, while nine others remained unaccounted for as of Tuesday night, authorities said.

The US space agency Nasa has begun requesting lunar landers, robotic rovers and drones as part of its plan to establish a permanent base on the Moon, less than two months after the record-breaking Artemis 2 lunar flyby mission.

US President Donald Trump, who turns 80 next month, said "everything checked out perfectly" after having his physical on Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical ​Center, following a year of public attention on apparently minor health issues.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday negotiating a deal with Iran could "take a few days," quashing hopes for an imminent end to the conflict a day after US forces conducted what Washington called defensive strikes in southern Iran.

A train crashed into a school minivan at a level-crossing in the Belgian town of Buggenhout on Tuesday, killing four people including two special needs pupils, authorities said.

Israeli strikes killed at least seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday including five in a refugee camp and two in a car, health officials said.

Authorities have called off search and rescue operations on Monday evening after emergency crew, using life locator equipment, determined there were no longer signs of life beneath the rubble of the building that collapsed in north Manila.

A rescue team racing to save seven people trapped for days in a cave in Laos is getting closer to reaching them, the head of the operation said, after breaking through 15 metres of obstacles in a day.

North Korea fired several projectiles, including at least one short-range ballistic missile, toward waters off the country's west coast on Tuesday, South Korea's military said.

Israel will escalate strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, as a US official said the militia had ignored warnings to halt firing at Israel in a conflict that could threaten US-Iran negotiations.

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Sir Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group, will be boarding Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity and blasting off to space on Sunday.

Singapore is reviewing penalties for violent offences following an outcry over a 12-day prison sentence for a student who strangled his girlfriend until she blacked out.