At least 52 guerrilla fighters were killed in clashes between two rival armed groups vying for control of ​a strategic cocaine production and trafficking region in Colombia, a faction of the ‌Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) involved in the fighting said in a statement on Thursday.

In a corn field in eastern Ukraine, soldiers fired drones ‌into the sky using a slingshot, aiming at military targets in the country’s Russian-occupied east, dozens of kilometers away.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ​said on Thursday he had directed Israel’s military to take more of Gaza, initially by seizing 70% of the Palestinian territory, where the ‌population is already penned into a tiny strip of land along the coast.

The United States and Iran reached an agreement on Thursday to extend their ceasefire and lift restrictions on shipping through ​the Strait of Hormuz, sources told Reuters, though U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to approve it and Iranian state media said it had not been ‌finalized.

Australia’s health minister said the ​quarantine period for repatriated ‌passengers on a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a ​hantavirus outbreak will be ​extended to 42 days total ⁠until June 23.

Oil prices jumped more than 3% on Thursday after Iran’s ​Revolutionary Guards said they targeted a U.S. airbase in response ‌to a U.S. attack near Bandar Abbas airport.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged U.S. President Donald Trump to help Ukraine with air ‌defence systems and interceptors as Russia threatens new strikes, saying that ballistic missiles remain Moscow’s “last major advantage on the battlefield.”

Australian businesses are among the most likely to pay a ransom to retrieve or protect stolen information, with more than half admitting they have given money to online criminals.

Six months into Australia’s under-16 social media ban coming into effect, the online safety regulator says it’s still too early to call whether platforms are meeting their obligations.

Russia has handed Kazakhstan four Amur tigers, two of them cubs, to help the country restore ​its numbers of the animals, President Vladimir Putin ‌said in an article issued ahead of his visit to the Central Asian nation this week.

Australia’s energy minister has accused the coalition of being unpatriotic, as he defended taxpayer-funded travel and staffing costs for a major climate conference.

Military drones straying into the airspace of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are stoking concerns that the war in Ukraine is spilling over into NATO’s northern borders with Russia.