China’s covert military training of Russian forces last year was personally approved.

Some 400,000 Lebanese uprooted by war have returned to southern Lebanon, with ‌more expected to follow in the coming week, the social affairs minister said on Tuesday, encouraged by a lull in the four-month-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

Fourteen children died after the roof of a tutoring centre ​collapsed in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore ‌on Tuesday, rescue officials said, as authorities opened the way for a possible negligence investigation.

South Korea’s Oceans Ministry said on Wednesday the cargo vessel Namu, ​operated by HMM (011200.KS), opens new tab, would exit the Strait of Hormuz in ‌mid-July at the earliest once the damage sustained in an attack in May was repaired.

The U.S. Treasury ‌said on Tuesday it had imposed sanctions on two Mexican nationals and nine entities tied to a cartel-linked smuggling scheme that moves fuel from the United States into Mexico without paying a hefty tax on the imports.

Jordanian emergency workers in Venezuela, which was hit by devastating twin earthquakes last week, rescued ​a child early on Tuesday, the only reported survivor on the ‌sixth day of rescue efforts, according to Venezuelan authorities.

Ukraine’s top military commander said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday that his forces were preparing for a possible new Russian attack from the north, but any attempt ​to advance on Kyiv was unlikely.

South African ‌police arrested ​more ​than 900 ⁠people ​during ​anti-migrant protests on ​Tuesday, ​a senior ‌police ⁠official said on ​Wednesday.

At least 36 students and one staff member abducted ​by gunmen from a ‌secondary school in Lassa in northeast Nigeria remain in captivity, ​while eight others have ​been rescued, a state official ⁠said on Tuesday.

Six truck drivers involved in a fiery early morning wreck have escaped relatively unharmed, despite their vehicles being entirely consumed by flames.

A pediatrician accused of sexually abusing 10 children allegedly used a dating website to contact underage girls, with a court told there could be more victims.

Australia introduced ​new legislation in parliament on Monday to strengthen enforcement of its under-16 social media ban and ‌give its internet regulator more power to pursue tech giants in court for non-compliance.