Manhattan prosecutors renewed their opposition to US president-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to quash his hush money conviction, but accepted pausing the case while he is president.

Israel aims to impose a “sterile defence zone” in southern Syria that would be enforced without a permanent troop presence, defence minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday.

A wind-fanned wildfire quickly spread early on Tuesday in Malibu, where many Hollywood elites reside in the western US state of California, threatening buildings and prompting evacuations, local officials said.

US President Joe Biden is facing growing calls to commute the death sentences of the more than three dozen federal inmates on Death Row before Donald Trump returns to the White House.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered a Tel Aviv courthouse to take the stand for the first time in a long-running corruption trial.

Nearly 200 people in Haiti were killed in brutal weekend violence reportedly orchestrated against voodoo practitioners, with the government condemning a massacre of “unbearable cruelty”.

The man suspected of killing UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson in a brazen shooting outside a Manhattan hotel was arrested and arraigned on gun and forgery charges.

Turkey will work for the safe and voluntary return home of the Syrian migrants it hosts and will help in the reconstruction of Syria after President Bashar al-Assad’s sudden ouster by rebels, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said.

Volkswagen workers ramped up pressure on its management with further strikes at the carmaker’s German sites on Monday, as a fourth round of talks was set to begin in an increasingly bitter standoff over wage cuts.

Taiwan said its military was on high alert as it launched combat readiness drills after detecting Chinese warships and coast guard vessels in waters around the island.

Australian police said they are hunting for three suspects over an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue, which has been designated as a terrorist act.

Syrians awakened to a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia.

Donald Trump said that he is selecting South African born venture capitalist David Sacks to serve as his artificial intelligence and crypto czar, a newly created position that underscores the president-elect’s intent to boost two rapidly developing industries.

Syrian rebels said that they have ended Bashar al-Assad’s 24-year authoritarian rule, in their first announcement on state television following a lightning offensive that took the world by surprise.

Elon Musk’s X social media service and key US senators agreed on the wording of a bipartisan online safety bill to protect children from bullying and exploitation, chief executive officer Linda Yaccarino said.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s future remained uncertain even after surviving an impeachment vote over his brief imposition of martial law.

A Syria war monitor said that President Bashar al-Assad has left the country, after losing swathes of territory to a lightning offensive led by an Islamist-led rebel coalition that said it entered Damascus.

Iran plans a major increase in the production rate of highly enriched uranium, the UN nuclear watchdog said Friday in a confidential report seen by AFP.

Rebel fighters who have taken city after city in a lightning offensive in Syria aim to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, their Islamist leader said in an interview published on Friday.

Romania’s top court annulled the result of the first round of the country’s presidential election on Friday, adding that the entire election process would have to be rerun.

French President Emmanuel Macron will appoint a new prime minister in the coming days whose top priority will be getting a 2025 budget adopted by parliament, he said on Thursday.