Israelis will on Wednesday mark three years since Hamas attacked Israel on ​October 7, 2023, triggering a military assault that destroyed much of Gaza, where conditions remain dire despite a year-old ceasefire that is ‌meant to halt the war for good.

North Korea criticised the United States over its arms sales and ​military support for Taiwan, accusing Washington of fuelling tensions in the Taiwan Strait, state media KCNA said on Wednesday.

Cornell University has hired a top former US Justice Department lawyer for an internal investigation of how it handled a student’s allegations that she was gang-raped, ​a case that has brought mounting scrutiny and triggered student protests at the ‌Ivy League school.

The crew of a merchant ship was missing on Tuesday after the vessel sank in the Black Sea off NATO ​member Bulgaria following a drone strike that Prime Minister Rumen Radev described as a gross violation of international law.

Demonstrations swept across France on Tuesday as teachers and parents took to the streets with high school pupils on the biggest day of what Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu described as the most ​violent student demonstrations in decades.

China plans to put forward a late candidate to ‌lead the World Health Organization, according to four diplomats and a source familiar with the matter, giving Beijing a chance to expand its influence after the US quit the WHO.

Russian investigators have dropped a criminal case against children’s hospice founder Lida Moniava after finding her actions ​did not constitute a crime, her lawyer and ‌a group of supporters said on Tuesday, a rare apparent reversal by authorities enforcing stringent wartime censorship laws.

South Korea is preparing a response to force North Korea to apologise for ​a mine blast in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that seriously wounded ‌two South Korean soldiers, a defence ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Protesters clashed with police outside Kosovo’s government and parliament buildings on Monday, calling for lawmakers to pass legislation that would limit the powers of a Kosovo ​war crimes court in The Hague.

A teenager’s hand was blown off as high-school protesters clashed with riot police in northern France on Monday, a ​local official said, on the eve of a national demonstration by the pupils’ union against underfunding, overcrowding and dilapidation.

Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces staged a lightning advance on Monday to retake the coast around ​the Bab el-Mandeb Strait up to the city of Mocha, the government said, pushing the Iran-backed Houthis out of most of the areas they seized last month.

The US Army is testing counter-drone technology in the US-Mexico border area, seeking to ‌sharpen its defenses against the growing threat of drone use by cartels and emulate the rapid battlefield innovation happening in Ukraine’s war with Russia.