Hong Kong firefighters were scouring scorched high-rises Thursday for over 250 people listed as missing, a day after the financial hub’s worst blaze in decades killed at least 55 in an apartment complex.

Israel’s military on Wednesday launched a new operation against Palestinian armed groups in the occupied West Bank, where a local governor told AFP that Israeli forces had raided several towns.

Lawmakers in the United States have approved a bill to release government documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, clearing the way for making the files public.

Turkey will host next year’s COP31 summit in the city of Antalya, ending a long standoff with Australia over the location of the top United Nations climate meeting.

Gunmen attacked a paramilitary force headquarters in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, police said.

The US and Ukriane said that any eventual deal to halt the war with Russia must fully uphold Ukraine’s sovereignty, after “constructive” talks between US, Ukrainian and European officials in Geneva.

Israel said it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff in an air strike on Lebanon’s capital on Sunday, hitting an apartment building in an operation the militant group said crossed a red line.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday accused Ukraine again of lacking “gratitude” for Washington’s support against Russia’s invasion, as top US and Ukrainian representatives met in Geneva for talks on a proposal to halt the war.

A United States federal judge has said the Trump administration must pause its deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, DC, a setback for the president’s push to send the military into cities across the country.

South Korea’s coast guard launched an investigation into a ferry that ran aground overnight, arresting the first officer and an Indonesian crew member for suspected gross negligence, officers said.

A fire that forced the evacuation on Thursday of the site hosting the UN’s COP30 climate talks in Belem, Brazil, has been brought under control, causing no injuries, tourism minister Celso Sabino said.

US President Donald Trump said he will host New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani for a meeting, after fiercely attacking the 34-year-old self-described Democratic Socialist during his recent campaign.

Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers stepped down from positions at Harvard University and the OpenAI board amid the continuing fallout from his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Two ministers in Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s cabinet resigned on Tuesday after being implicated in an ongoing investigation into “ghost” infrastructure and billions of dollars of missing government funds, deepening a crisis facing the country’s government over the corruption scandal.

A fire has ripped through more than 170 buildings in a southern Japanese coastal city, burning overnight and still not fully extinguished, the national fire agency said.

Lebanon said an Israeli strike on a crowded Palestinian refugee camp in the country’s south killed at least 13 people, as Israel said it struck a Hamas compound.

Nicki Minaj praised Donald Trump’s stand on the persecution of religious minorities, calling for an end to faith-based persecution in Nigeria.

The Trump administration has been secretly formulating a new plan to end the war in Ukraine in consultation with Russia, Axios reported, citing US and Russian officials.

US President Donald Trump hailed the UN Security Council’s vote in favour of his Gaza peace plan, claiming it would lead to “further Peace all over the World”.

US lawmakers are expected to advance a bill requiring the release of government records on millionaire sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, in defiance of Donald Trump’s attempts to keep a lid on one of modern America’s most notorious case files.

The United Nations Security Council has approved a resolution mandating a transitional administration and an International Stabilization Force in Gaza that envisions a “credible pathway” to Palestinian statehood.