Syria’s new parliament convened for the first time, 19 months after ​rebels led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa toppled Bashar al-Assad, a milestone in the country’s political transition ‌despite the chamber’s current limited powers.

Typhoon Bavi, the most powerful storm to strike mainland China this year, brought heavy rain to the eastern coast ​and lashed densely populated cities with violent winds, testing the country’s ability to cope with extreme weather.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he had ordered ​the military to be prepared ‌to launch strikes against Iran if the Iranian government carried out or ​attempted an assassination of ​the president.

Typhoon ‌Bavi pummelled Japan’s southern Sakishima island chain with heavy rain and violent winds on Saturday as it headed towards Taiwan, prompting authorities to warn of the risks of floods and landslides.

U.S. drivers have seen gasoline prices climb again after weeks ​of steady declines, as renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran lifted crudeoilprices to their biggest weekly rise in eight weeks.

At least 39 schoolchildren and six teachers kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria’s southwestern ​Oyo state nearly two months ago ‌have been rescued by security forces, a presidential spokesperson said on Friday.

Three men ​who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a U.S. agent in Houston on Tuesday have challenged the explanation offered by Immigration and Customs ‌Enforcement, a lawyer for two of the witnesses told reporters in a press conference on Friday.

A passenger was partially sucked through a dislodged window ​on a Ryanair (RYA.I), opens new tab Boeing 737 flight shortly after takeoff from Thessaloniki in Greece on Friday, two airport sources said, forcing the aircraft to make ‌an emergency landing.

At least one million women and girls have lost access to ‌life-saving support within the last year due to global donor aid cuts, a new United Nations report on Friday found.

A large and powerful typhoon approached a remote chain of islands in Japan’s southwest on Friday, prompting ​authorities to warn of violent winds, torrential rain, landslides and flooding in what could be the region’s most destructive storm in years.

In the year since the Sudanese army recaptured the capital Khartoum from a paramilitary force that had seized it ‌at the outset of civil war in 2023, more than 2 million of the 5 million people who fled their homes in the city have returned.

Frustrations over unemployment, crime and years of weak growth are ​driving South Africa’s anti-migrant protests. But economists warn that the departure of thousands of foreign workers could end up hurting the ‌very businesses and labour markets that anti-migrant campaigners say they are trying to protect.