Russian officials said on Friday that debris from a Ukrainian drone hit a nuclear power plant a day earlier, temporarily causing the station to reduce its output.

Almost every district in Kyiv came under “massive” attack, the Ukrainian capital’s mayor said, with a death reported hours after AFP journalists heard explosions in the city centre.

Tanzanian politicians are in shock over the massacre of hundreds of young protesters during its recent election, insiders told AFP, but are too afraid to speak out as a tiny cabal of hardliners around the president takes control.

Following Iraq’s parliamentary election this week, the complex and often lengthy task of choosing the country’s next leader is set to begin.

Internet freedom declined in both the United States and Germany as Western democracies joined authoritarian states in imposing growing restrictions online, an annual survey by Freedom House said.

Elon Musk’s Starlink, whose internet services have been utilised by Myanmar scam centres, has seen its use across the country plummet since the end of September, according to estimates from regional internet registry Apnic.

The US government is set to return to life on Thursday after the longest shutdown in US history, which snarled air traffic, cut food assistance to low-income Americans, and forced more than 1 million workers to go unpaid for more than a month.

A US jury in the first civil trial over a fatal Boeing 737 MAX crash determined that the aircraft manufacturing giant owes $28.45 million to the family of a newly-wed Indian victim.

US President Donald Trump signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in US history.

Senegal’s president and the political party he belongs to have issued conflicting statements over the leadership of the ruling coalition, a clear sign of dissension among top leaders amid drawn-out talks with the International Monetary Fund.

French President Emmanuel Macron warned that any Israeli plans for annexation in the West Bank would be a “red line” and would provoke a European reaction.

A suicide bomber has set off a blast outside a court building in Islamabad that has killed at least 12 people, according to Pakistan’s interior minister.

Syria is joining the global coalition against the Islamic State group, a US official said hours after US President Donald Trump welcomed his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa for historic White House talks.

An additional 2 300 US flights were cancelled as US President Donald Trump threatened to dock pay for air traffic controllers who called in sick during the government shutdown.

Released Israeli hostage Bar Kupershtein says he managed to survive two years in a cramped Hamas tunnel in Gaza with no sunlight, little food and regular beatings, by clinging to his belief that he was in God’s hands the entire time.

Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa is to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House for unprecedented talks just days after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist.

South Korean prosecutors indicted former president Yoon Suk Yeol on new charges of aiding the enemy, alleging that he ordered drone flights over North Korea to strengthen his effort to declare martial law.

Spain’s exiled King Juan Carlos I reflects on his tumultuous life in newly published memoir titled “Reconciliation.”

A tornado killed at least five people and injured more than 400 as it destroyed most of a town in southern Brazil, authorities said on Saturday.

United States President Donald Trump has said he expects a US-coordinated international stabilisation force to be on the ground in Gaza “very soon” as part of his post-war plan for the enclave, which is still suffering a full-blown humanitarian crisis amid continued Israeli bombing.

Pirates boarded the Hellas Aphrodite, a Malta-flagged vessel carrying gasoline, as it was headed from India to South Africa. The EU’s naval force said one of its vessels was near the incident and closing in.