Conflict

The air strikes killed or wounded dozens of Palestinians, including in areas where Israel had told people to seek shelter, residents and journalists on the ground said.

Five New Zealand permanent residents have escaped Gaza through the Rafah crossing overnight, Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters says.

A man has died and two others have been injured in a knife and hammer attack on a street in central Paris.

Heavy fighting has been reported in Gaza as Israel's military resumed combat operations against Hamas after accusing the Palestinian militant group of violating a temporary truce by firing towards…

Foreign Minister Winston Peters has welcomed the extra day added to the halt in fighting, and called on all parties and countries with influence to work towards a long-term ceasefire.

Further negotiations came as a senior Israeli official reiterated plans to resume the war unless the Palestinian militant group agreed to release more hostages.

The truce was on the verge of expiring when it was extended by two days, raising the prospect Hamas will free hostages beyond the 69 released since Friday.

Hamas said it had handed over 13 Israeli hostages, three Thai nationals and a person with Russian citizenship who had been held in the Gaza Strip to the Red Cross on the third day of a truce.

For months, Ukraine has been caught up in a heated debate over whether the country needs to hold a presidential election next year as originally scheduled.

A group of hostages have been released today in Gaza, with the release deal back on after a row over aid supplies to the besieged enclave was resolved following mediation by Qatar and Egypt.

Russia has launched its biggest drone attack on Kyiv since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began last year, the city's mayor has said.

Hamas fighters have released 24 hostages during the first day of the war's first truce, including Israeli women and children and Thai workers, after guns fell silent across the Gaza Strip.

Vehicles have been set on fire and shops looted in Dublin after a knife attack that left a number of people, including three children, injured.

Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas will start a four-day truce on Friday with a first group of 13 Israeli women and child hostages released later that day, mediators in Qatar said.

North Korea's defence ministry said it would restore all military measures it had halted in an accord struck in 2018.