Iran launched dozens of drones at Israel but they will take hours to reach their targets, Israel’s military said.

The brave mother who died after being stabbed in the Bondi Junction Westfield shopping centre attack has been described as “a beautiful human” and the “world’s best mum”.

Crowds in Australia have fled a Sydney shopping mall near Bondi Beach and police have confirmed that at least five people have been killed.

Floods, droughts, an earthquake and freezing conditions in China caused direct economic losses of 23.76 billion yuan ($3.28 billion) in the first quarter, the government said.

A cooperation agreement by the Philippines, the United States and Japan will change the dynamic in the South China Sea and the region.

The chief executive of a U.S. biotechnology company that falsely promised investors it could produce a quick and accurate COVID-19 test was sentenced to seven years’ in jail on Friday, the Justice Department said.

Israel braced for an attack by Iran or its proxies as warnings grew of retaliation for the killing last week of a senior officer in Iran’s embassy in Damascus.

Russia, Germany and Britain this morning urged countries in the Middle East to show restraint and Israel said it was preparing to “meet all its security needs” in a region on edge over an Iranian threat to strike Israel.

Iran has signalled to Washington that it will respond to Israel’s attack on its Syrian embassy in a way that aims to avoid major escalation.

The Russian city of Orenburg battled rising water levels after major rivers across Russia and Kazakhstan burst their banks in the worst flooding seen in the areas in nearly a century.

South Korea’s liberal opposition parties scored a landslide victory in a parliamentary election held.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled plans for military cooperation and projects.