The U.S. State Department said on Thursday that a solution to be able to deliver food aid to Gaza was “steps away” and an announcement was coming shortly, as the aid community expressed skepticism that the plan would bring relief to the enclave’s conflict-ravaged population.

Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Thursday, Russia had repeatedly violated its own 3-day ceasefire hours after it began and called the initiative a “farce“, while Moscow said Kyiv had continued fighting.

Dozens of community kitchens in Gaza shut their doors on Thursday due to a lack of supplies, closing off a lifeline used by hundreds of thousands of people in a further blow to efforts to combat growing hunger in the enclave.

A top Chinese-made Pakistani fighter plane shot down at least two Indian military aircraft on Wednesday, two U.S. officials told Reuters, marking a major milestone for Beijing’s advanced fighter jet.

Chinese President Xi Jinping told Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Thursday their two countries should be “friends of steel“, as they pledged to raise cooperation to a new level and “decisively” counter the influence of the United States.

Blasts rang out across the Indian city of Jammu late on Thursday during what the government said was a Pakistani drone and missile attack on military stations around the Kashmir region on the second day of clashes between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the Catholic Church, taking the name Leo XIV.

Romania’s hard-right presidential frontrunner George Simion will win the May 18 run-off vote against centrist Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, an opinion survey showed on Wednesday, as the two clashed over worldviews and deficits in a debate.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi called for restraint between India and Pakistan upon landing in New Delhi on Thursday, state media reported, a day after India targeted what it says are “terrorist camps” in Pakistan in retaliation for a deadly attack on tourists in Kashmir last month.

Police arrested dozens of Columbia University students who seized part of the school’s main library on Wednesday in one of the biggest pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus since last year’s wave of protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

A U.S. judge said any effort by the Trump administration to deport migrants to Libya would clearly violate a prior court order barring officials from swiftly deporting migrants to countries other than their own without first weighing whether they risk persecution or torture if sent there.

Colombia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday issued arrest orders for Ivan Name, the former president of the country’s Senate, and Andres Calle, the former president of the House of Representatives, over corruption allegations.