Israeli troops battled militants across Gaza on Wednesday, including in the southern city of Rafah that had been a refuge for civilians, in an upsurge of the more than seven-month-old war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a $2 billion fund to help Ukraine build up its defense industrial base.

Hundreds of police are scouring northern France for Mohamed Amra, a fugitive known as “The Fly” who was freed by gunmen in a brazen attack against a prison van that killed two guards and wounded three.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico suffered life-threatening injuries when he was shot and wounded in an attempted assassination that stunned his small Central European nation and drew a chorus of international condemnation.

France declared a state of emergency on the Pacific island of New Caledonia yesterday after three young indigenous Kanak and a police official were killed in riots over electoral reform.

Hundreds of police officers have been deployed in Normandy in the search for Mohamed Amra, who escaped a police van transporting him to jail on Tuesday.

A video released over the weekend of Colombian rebel commander Ivan Marquez, who had reportedly died last year, is real, defense minister Ivan Velasquez said.

U.S. and British officials warned of a growing cyber threat from China.

A large wildfire is slowly approaching the major Canadian oil sands city of Fort McMurray and around 6,000 people in four suburbs have been told to evacuate, local officials said.

U.S. President Joe Biden would veto a bill on Israel security assistance in Congress if it passes, the White House said.

Extreme temperatures throughout Asia last month were made worse – and more likely – as a result of human-driven climate change, a team of international scientists said.

Two teachers met them with a smile at the steel door, and down the concrete staircase the mother and daughter clattered, hand in hand, through another blast door and into the bunker for the first day of school.