Russian strikes have killed three people in a city in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, the city military administration chief said.

The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon said Israeli soldiers shot at its troops in the south of the country, while Israel’s military said it mistook blue helmets for “suspects” and fired warning shots.

US President Donald Trump said he backed lawmakers’ efforts to release more files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, despite previous opposition to the measure.

At least 32 people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to officials, after a bridge at a copper and cobalt mine collapsed due to overcrowding.

Pope Leo XIV has revealed his four favourite films ahead of a special audience with Hollywood celebrities and Oscar-winning directors at the Vatican.

A Chinese national dubbed “one of the most prolific sex offenders of all time” by British police was sentenced to life in prison on Friday.

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.