Conflict

The U.N. Security Council approved a toned-down bid to boost humanitarian aid to Gaza and sought steps to create conditions to end fighting.

The Security Council was due to vote on calling for "urgent humanitarian pauses", but despite intense talks, hasn't been able to agree on wording.

President Javier Milei announces radical measures, including spending cuts and a drastic currency devaluation.

The country's military wants to mobilise up to half a million extra people, President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed.

A vote on a bid to boost aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip has been puhsed back as talks continue to try avoid a third US veto of action.

Mounting attacks by the Iran-aligned Yemeni Houthi militant group on ships in the Red Sea are disrupting maritime trade as leading global freight firms reroute to avoid the Suez Canal.

Al Jazeera is preparing a legal file to send to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over what it called "the assassination" of one of its cameramen in Gaza, the Qatari-based network says.

At least 14 people died from air strikes that hit two houses in Jabalia and dozens more were killed in a separate air strike, according to the official Palestinian WAFA news agency.

Heavy rain in Gaza is adding to the anguish of families displaced by the Israel-Hamas war. Audio

A current Treaty of Waitangi exhibition at Te Papa is intended to explore the tensions of having two versions, the Museums Aotearoa chief executive says. Audio

A New Zealander has made it out of Gaza overnight, crossing into Egypt through the Rafah crossing.

The embassy attack marked the first time it had been fired on in more than a year, apparently widening the range of targets.

Footage circulating on social media, verified by the BBC, shows dozens of stripped Palestinian men detained by Israel.

There is increasing concern that Gaza health authorities will be unable to continue keeping an accurate count of the casualty toll.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has continued with National's approach in calling for "steps towards" a ceasefire, saying that must be in place before a ceasefire can begin.

More than 21 months into the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II, fighting rages with no end in sight.