Conflict

Israeli forces continue to push deeper into central and southern Gaza as intensive air strikes filled hospitals with dead injured people.

The halting of operations by two international aid organisations risks exacerbating a humanitarian crisis caused by more than eight months of war.

Russia has unleashed its biggest air attack of the war on Ukraine, killing 31 civilians, and wounding more than 160 others, officials said.

Tens of thousands of fleeing Palestinians sought shelter as Israeli tanks pushed through the central Gaza Strip.

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said at least 241 people were killed in the past 24 hours, as Israel's military operation continues in the territory.

President Xi Jinping has vowed to resolutely prevent anyone from "splitting Taiwan from China in any way", the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militia claimed responsibility for a missile attack on a container ship in the Red Sea, and for an attempt to attack Israel with drones.

A Ukrainian attack on the Crimean port of Feodosia has damaged a large Russian landing ship and killed one person, Moscow says.

There is no let-up in Israeli air strikes in Gaza, a UN official has told the BBC, after visiting a hospital struggling to treat the injured.

Hours before midnight tolled, both Palestinian and Israeli officials were reporting more deaths in Gaza.

The tanker is reportedly linked to Israel, and the strike follows Houthi attacks on Red Sea ships.

The arrests come as Israel hints at expanding its campaign, forcing more civilians out of their homes.

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.