Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, after President Joe Biden said the United States would withhold weapons from Israel if its forces mount a major invasion of the southern Gaza city.

Britain is refusing to sign the World Health Organization’s (WHO) pandemic accord because the country says it would have to give away a fifth of its vaccines, the Telegraph reported.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said his government’s efforts to improve people’s lives had fallen short.

Authorities interrupted rescue efforts in flood-ravaged southern Brazil amid more rain.

A Russian air attack hit a school stadium in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv, injuring at least four children and three adults, officials said.

Widespread recent power outages in Mexico were caused by unseasonably hot weather, the country’s president said.

Russia marks the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.

The Olympic flame landed on French soil amid tight security, firing the starting gun on a summer extravaganza of sport that President Emmanuel Macron hopes will showcase the splendours of France and burnish his legacy.

Dutch riot police clashed with protesters at the University of Amsterdam.

North Macedonia’s right-wing opposition won big in parliamentary and presidential elections, on a night that saw the Balkan country also elect its first female head of state.

Four current British newspaper editors and a string of other senior press figures have been named in a privacy lawsuit brought by Prince Harry and other public figures against the publisher of the Daily Mail and the Mail.

Hamas battled Israeli troops on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip’s crowded southern city of Rafah on Wednesday and Washington said it had held up a shipment of powerful bombs to Israel to prevent Palestinian civilian casualties.