The first batch of long-awaited F-16 jets have arrived in Ukraine, Lithuania’s foreign minister and a U.S. official said on Wednesday, an effort Kyiv has said will help rebuild its depleted air force.

Former British TV presenter Huw Edwards, the long-time face of the BBC’s flagship news programme, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to three counts of making indecent pictures of children.

Ukraine’s air force said on yesterday it repelled one of Russia’s largest long-range drone attacks of the war overnight, shooting down all 89 drones launched at Kyiv, the surrounding region and other areas.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran early on Wednesday morning, an attack that drew threats of revenge on Israel and fuelled further concern that the conflict in Gaza was turning into a wider Middle East war.

Over 4,000 homes in North Korea’s city of Sinuiju and Uiju County near the border with China have been flooded due to heavy rainfall, state media KCNA said on Wednesday.

Landslides swept through tea estates and villages in southern India’s Kerala, killing at least 106 people while they slept as unexpected heavy rain collapsed hillsides and triggered torrents of mud, water and tumbling boulders.

The Israeli military said it carried out a targeted strike in Beirut on Tuesday against the Hezbollah commander it said was responsible for a strike in the Golan Heights that killed 12 children and teenagers at the weekend.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said that a security pact signed by Russia and North Korea was destabilising the region, adding that North Korea was giving weapons to Russia in “flagrant violation” of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Pakistan’s army said protesters taking part in a march in the southwestern city of Gwadar attacked security forces deployed to guard them on Monday, killing one soldier and injuring 16 others.

Police noticed the Pennsylvania man who tried to assassinate Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump more than an hour before the July 13 shooting and took a photo to share with other law enforcement officers, an FBI official said.

Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm agreed on Monday to search for emails about an alleged “fake security threat”, which claimants including Prince Harry say was used to delete millions of emails at the height of the phone-hacking scandal.

A train carrying 800 passengers smashed into a truck at a level crossing in southern Russia on Monday, sending at least eight carriages off the track and injuring 52 people, local authorities said.