Israel opened a direct crossing for aid into Gaza for the first time in its more than two-month-old war on Hamas but also stepped up attacks on the Palestinian enclave, saying military pressure was the only way its hostages would be freed.

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Sunday

Serbians will cast their votes in a snap election seen as an effort by President Aleksandar Vucic and his populist Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

The United States has warned North Korea that any nuclear attack against the nation or its allies “is unacceptable and will result in the end of the (Kim Jong) Un regime,” a joint US-South Korean statement said.

Austria has given its approval to a 12th package of EU sanctions on Russia after Ukraine removed Raiffeisen Bank International (RBIV.VI) from a blacklist, Ukraine’s government website and an EU diplomat said.

Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, said that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” repeating language that has previously drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing of Nazi rhetoric.

A third Ukrainian truck driver has died in blockades at the Polish border staged by Polish truckers, Ukraine’s Suspilne public broadcaster said.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the most senior Catholic Church official ever to stand trial before a Vatican criminal court, was convicted of embezzlement and fraud and sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail.

A teenager from Britain who resurfaced in southern France after disappearing six years ago is expected to return to England over the weekend.

Nigeria’s Supreme Court overturned a judgment by a lower court that dropped terrorism charges against separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, ruling that trial on the charges should continue.

Generals from Myanmar’s junta held peace talks in June near the border with China with representatives of three powerful ethnic armies.

Her daughter’s school shut down, Yomara said, after a shootout between rival gangs competing for control of drug and migrant trafficking routes in their southern Mexican town of Chicomuselo.