Dozens of news outlets have lost access to the Pentagon after they refused to sign a new set of guidelines that sharply restrict their ability to report on the US military.

A former Israeli hostage said on Thursday that all Gaza captives could have returned home “a long time ago”, as relatives of newly released hostages described the torment endured by their loved ones.

US President Donald Trump said he was considering strikes targeting Venezuelan cartels on land, after a series of deadly strikes at sea against alleged drug-carrying boats.

Madagascar braced for military rule on Wednesday after an elite army unit seized power following President Andry Rajoelina’s impeachment, promising elections within two years as the international community voiced alarm over the crisis.

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that it was permanently closing an emergency health centre in Haiti’s capital, due to rampant insecurity.

Petitions have been filed in Nepal’s Supreme Court challenging the formation of an interim government and the dissolution of parliament following last month’s uprising, a court official said on Wednesday.

Former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga has died at the age of 80, a source in Odinga’s office told Reuters, without giving further details.

Japan’s top opposition parties agreed on Tuesday to hold a meeting of leaders, aiming to find a unified candidate for prime minister and oust the ruling party from power.

Cameroon’s opposition challenger Issa Tchiroma Bakary claimed election victory against incumbent President Paul Biya, who has been in power for 43 years, although official results for the weekend vote are not expected for two weeks.

New York’s top law officer Letitia James, charged with crimes by Donald Trump’s justice department, defiantly threw her weight behind mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, another fierce critic of the US president.

Iran dismissed on Tuesday suggestions that it had missed a diplomatic opportunity by refusing to attend a summit on Gaza at which US President Donald Trump took centre stage.

Woody Allen fell in love with Diane Keaton as soon as he set eyes on her, but took a week to pluck up the courage to speak to the woman whose stellar career he would help to turbocharge.

If lasting peace is to take root between Israel and Gaza, US President Donald Trump will have to maintain pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

President Andry Rajoelina has fled Madagascar to protect his life amid nationwide protests.

Some of the world’s biggest carmakers are facing a pivotal trial at London’s High Court on Monday, with lawyers representing 1.6 million claimants accusing them of cheating diesel emissions tests, a decade on from Volkswagen’s ‘dieselgate’ scandal.

Hamas was set to release all surviving hostages on Monday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, as US President Donald Trump headed to the region for a peace summit having declared the war “over”.

Israel has begun transferring prisoners to two jails ahead of their release as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal, designed to lead to the release of hostages held by Hamas, the prison service said on Saturday.

A magnitude-6.0 earthquake jolted just off the coast of southern Philippines late on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said.

Britain’s Prince William fought back tears as he discussed the impact of suicide with a woman whose husband took his own life, in a video released Friday to mark World Mental Health Day.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle hit the red carpet for the Project Healthy Minds’ World Mental Health Day Gala at Spring Studios in New York.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Friday that the government had “approved the framework” of a hostage release deal with Hamas, as both sides edged closer to ending more than two years of hostilities in Gaza.