American allies of President Donald Trump this week defended him to an Israeli public anxious about a U.S. interim deal with Iran and White House criticism that together ​appeared to signal fissures in Israel’s decades-old alliance with Washington.

The Democratic ​Republic of ‌Congo said late ​on ​Monday that confirmed ⁠Ebola ​cases in ​the country had reached ​1,048, ​including 267 deaths.

Thirteen years after the gang rape of an Indian woman on a bus in the capital Delhi made global headlines, a new case that comes close in brutality inflicted on a woman has been reported from the northern state of Bihar.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center said on Monday all 18 ​U.S.-resident passengers from the hantavirus-hit MV ‌Hondius cruise ship have returned to their home states after completing monitoring at ​its National Quarantine Unit.

Ukraine’s capital Kyiv issued an ​air raid alert ‌and authorities in a Telegram post ​asked people ​to seek shelter in ⁠the early ​hours of Tuesday, after ​President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned last week that Russia ​was preparing ​a massive attack.

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.