A long-running border dispute erupted into intense fighting with jets, artillery, tanks and ground troops on Thursday, and the UN Security Council is set to hold an emergency meeting on the crisis later Friday.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said that one in every five children is malnourished in Gaza City as cases increase every day.
Rescuers in the northern Philippines used boats to pick up residents stranded by flooding Friday as Typhoon Co-May was downgraded to a tropical storm and the death toll from a week of monsoon rains edged higher.
At least four children were killed and 17 injured in India's western state of Rajasthan after the roof of a school building collapsed on Friday, local media reported, with dozens still feared trapped under the rubble.
Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, strongly condemned the Knesset’s vote yesterday on a draft law to impose Israeli control over the West Bank, which has been occupied since 1967.
Firefighters battled multiple wildfires across Türkiye on Thursday that have scorched swathes of land, forced the evacuation of towns and villages and killed 10 firefighters in central Türkiye amid a searing Mediterranean heatwave.
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