Israeli forces pounded several areas across Gaza on Wednesday, and residents reported fierce fighting overnight in Rafah in the south of the Palestinian enclave.

Record floods that killed over 170 people and displaced half a million in southern Brazil are a warning sign of more disasters to come throughout the Americas because of climate change, an official at the United Nations’ refugee agency said.

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele met Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in Canberra to discuss security and development ties, as the United States and China vie for influence in the Pacific Islands region.

A majority of the justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court are in favor of decriminalizing the possession of marijuana for personal consumption, following a crucial vote.

French prime minister Gabriel Attal accused his far-right and leftwing political opponents of “promising the moon” in a three-way televised debate ahead of next Sunday’s first round of early parliamentary elections.

Heavy rains and big seas on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island have caused homes to be evacuated as rivers flood and waves cause coastal inundation.

The Kremlin-backed head of Dagestan ordered background checks to be carried out on the Russian republic’s political elite to make sure nobody had links to radical Islam after a weekend attack in which 21 people were killed.

Interpol’s executive committee for the first time elected a police officer from a developing nation to head the international police agency, Valdecy Urquiza from Brazil.

Four men were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s home in northern England, local police said in a statement.

Peru will stop listing individuals who identify as transgender, among others, as suffering from mental disorders, the country’s health ministry announced, following a backlash to the move that critics derided as unnecessary and discriminatory.

Police fired on demonstrators trying to storm Kenya’s legislature and at least five protesters were shot dead, with sections of the parliament building set ablaze as lawmakers inside passed a bill to raise taxes.

Israeli forces killed at least 24 Palestinians in three separate airstrikes on Gaza City early on Tuesday and the dead included a sister of Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of militant Islamist group Hamas, Gaza health officials and medics said.