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The UN aid chief said on Wednesday that recent “horrifying scenes” of Gazans being killed while seeking food aid were the result of “deliberate choices that have systematically deprived” them of essentials to survive.

Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill has careened into an Elon Musk-shaped brick wall, complicating its passage into law and risking a schism between the most powerful man in the world and the wealthiest.

Around 20 000 people were being evacuated from central Cologne after three unexploded World War II bombs were found, the biggest such operation in the German city since the end of the war.

Tensions between Donald Trump and Elon Musk exploded into public view on Thursday, as the US president said he was “very disappointed” by his billionaire former aide’s criticisms and Musk hit back in real time on social media.

A US- and Israeli-backed group operating aid sites in Gaza pushed back the reopening of its facilities.

Russian drone strikes killed five people and wounded six others in the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky, a Ukrainian official said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the bodies of two Israeli-Americans killed in Hamas’ 7 October 2023 attack and held in Gaza had been returned to Israel.

US President Donald Trump ramped up his campaign against top US universities, banning visas for all foreign students coming to attend Harvard and threatening to strip Columbia of its academic accreditation.

US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation banning the nationals of 12 countries from entering the United States.

At least 27 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire near a food distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip, local health authorities said, in the third day of chaos and bloodshed to affect the aid operation.

South Korea’s center-left presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung hailed voters’ “great decision” as he was poised early on Wednesday to win a snap election by a wide margin, capping months of political chaos.

Israel’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that its arms exports hit an all-time high of more than $14.7 billion in 2024, with a sharp rise in deals with Arab Gulf states, despite international criticism of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.

The White House said that South Korea’s election, which saw liberal party candidate Lee Jae-myung win the presidency, was fair, but it expressed concern about Chinese interference.

The world will never forget China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, Taiwan’s president and the top US diplomat said on the 36th anniversary of an event Beijing treats as taboo and allows no public remembrance.

Human rights activists from Kenya and Uganda who were detained in Tanzania said security forces there sexually assaulted them while they were in custody.

Russia on Tuesday said it was wrong to expect a quick breakthrough in Ukraine talks, a day after Moscow rejected Kyiv’s call for an unconditional ceasefire at negotiations in Istanbul.

Aid centres in hunger-wracked Gaza will temporarily close a controversial US-backed agency said, with the Israeli army warning roads leading to distribution stations “are considered combat zones”.

The Dutch government collapsed on Tuesday, most likely ushering in a snap election, after anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders quit the right-wing coalition, accusing other parties of failing to back his tougher immigration policies.

Cries of grief echoed across southern Gaza’s Nasser Hospital on Monday as dozens came to mourn Hossam Wafi, after the father of six was killed while attempting to get supplies to feed his family.

Portuguese police will carry out a new search this week in the municipality of Lagos at the request of German authorities investigating the 2007 disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann, a spokesperson told AFP Monday.