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World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had recently visited the epicentre of the outbreak in the DR Congo. He said the “virus is ahead of us; we need to move faster”.

Hezbollah’s chief on Thursday rejected a conditional truce announced by Lebanese and Israeli envoys, demanding instead a comprehensive ceasefire and full Israeli withdrawal as he threatened northern Israel with new attacks.

North Korea has unveiled a new facility to produce nuclear bomb fuels as leader Kim Jong Un calls for an “exponential” expansion of his country’s atomic arsenal.

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he hopes to meet Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, as Washington and Tehran accuse each other of violating an increasingly fragile ceasefire.

A Kenyan court has blocked a planned quarantine centre for US citizens, as President Ruto urged people to “relax” about the facility. Meanwhile, the WHO has dramatically scaled back the number of suspected cases.

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has announced a major expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, as he pushes to annex more of the Palestinian territory.

A Nepali climbing guide who went missing on Mount Everest for six days and was feared dead has been found alive after crawling back to Base Camp, officials told AFP.

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir criticised a ceasefire deal with Lebanon brokered by Washington, calling it a “serious mistake”.

Recent terror attacks across Mali have intensified JNIM’s blockades of vital transport routes connecting port cities to Sahelian capitals, writes Felix Fodé Bongono in ISS Today.

Israeli attacks on Gaza killed at least eight people, a spokesperson for the civil defence agency in the Palestinian territory said.

The daughter of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has cut short her studies in Australia and returned to Oslo to be at the bedside of her seriously ill mother.

Israel and Lebanon agreed to implement a ceasefire, but said it would require a “complete cessation” of fire by Iran-backed Hezbollah, according to a joint statement after US-led talks in Washington.

The Republican-led US House of Representatives approved a resolution to block US President Donald Trump from continuing the war against Iran, reflecting growing concern among members of his party about the three-month-old conflict.

Israel and the United Arab Emirates are growing closer because of the Middle East war, a senior Israeli official told AFP, citing increased military cooperation and opportunities to increase trade and business ties.

A drone strike killed seven people and wounded 11 as it hit a bus in Russia-occupied eastern Ukraine, Moscow-installed authorities in the Donetsk region said.

Hollywood legend Richard Gere criticised Donald Trump on Tuesday, calling the US president a “maniac”.

A US congressman who has missed months of votes in Washington ran unopposed for his party’s nomination with US President Donald Trump’s full-throated support – despite growing questions over his unexplained absence from public life.

Southwestern Nigeria has largely been spared major security threats – now it faces a troubling convergence of drugs and terror, write Oluwole Ojewale and Freedom Onuoha in ISS Today.

The Trump administration is abandoning the president’s nearly $1.8 billion “weaponisation” fund, US Acting Attorney ‌General Todd Blanche told lawmakers, after a rare backlash from Republican senators.

British police faced a national backlash over the inflammatory case of an ‌18-year-old student who was handcuffed as he lay dying from stab wounds after his killer falsely alleged a racist attack.