North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said exercising the country’s position as a ​nuclear state is the only way to cope with an ‌unpredictable and complicated global security situation, KCNA state news agency reported on Tuesday.

Ukraine may revise its offer to Russia of a ceasefire along the de facto frontline if the United Nations Security ​Council fails to pass a resolution urging a full and ‌unconditional end to the hostilities, a top Ukrainian official said on Monday.

Crisis interventions for young people seeking counselling have more than tripled in recent years with kids still worried about the stigma of seeking help.

A United Nations official warned on Monday that efforts to repair divisions and stabilise ​southern Syria have stalled nearly a year after deadly sectarian violence in a Druze-majority province shook the ‌country.

Tourists and locals in Madrid struggled to cope with temperatures reaching up to 40 ​degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) as ‌the first official heatwave of 2026 set in, and authorities warned of over-exposure to the sun and an ​increased risk of wildfires.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party ​won another large parliamentary majority in this month’s elections, results released by the national election board ‌showed.

Negotiations between the US and Iran to reach a final deal to end the war are expected to continue throughout the night in Switzerland, a senior US diplomat engaged in the talks said.

Israeli soldiers are free to act without restriction to eliminate threats in Lebanon, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said, adding troops remained in position in what Israel refers to as a security ​zone.

A day of fragile gains in Bolivia saw major ‌protest roadblocks cleared for the first time in weeks on Sunday, but progress was overshadowed by the crash of a military support flight that killed six people, authorities said.

Ramiro Valdes, one of Fidel Castro’s earliest collaborators who was lauded at home as a hero of the Cuban revolution, has died at the age of 94, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on social media.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to restart war with Iran even as Vice President JD Vance met Iranian officials for the first talks under an interim peace deal that was overshadowed ​by Tehran’s announcement it had again closed the Strait of Hormuz.

Direct talks between the US and Iran are set to begin in Switzerland despite the Iranian military saying it has closed the Strait of Hormuz again over Israel’s attacks on southern Lebanon.