Top Biden administration officials were labouring on Wednesday to try to reach a last-minute deal for wartime aid for Ukraine by agreeing to Senate Republican demands to bolster U.S.-Mexico border policies to cut crossings.

Nations at the UN climate summit have for the first time taken explicit aim at the use of fossil fuels.

Palestinian militants carried out one of the deadliest single attacks on Israeli soldiers since the Gaza invasion began, killing at least nine in an urban ambush, the military said Wednesday, a sign of the stiff resistance Hamas still poses despite more than two months of devastating bombardment.

A barrage of Russian missiles targeted Kyiv on Wednesday, wounding at least 53 people.

Israel announced its worst combat losses for more than a month after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza and faced growing diplomatic isolation as civilian deaths mounted and a humanitarian catastrophe worsened in the Palestinian territory.

Visitors to Kenya from across the world will no longer require a visa from January, President William Ruto said.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak avoided defeat in parliament on an emergency bill to revive his plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, seeing off a revolt by dozens of his lawmakers that laid bare his party’s deep divisions.

The International Monetary Fund said its executive board cleared the first review of Bangladesh’s $4.7 billion bailout, providing $689.8 million in funding to Dhaka as it battles high inflation ahead of national elections in January.

Ukraine’s biggest mobile network operator said it hoped to restore operations by Wednesday after coming under what appeared to be the largest cyberattack since Russia launched its war on the country in February 2022.

Australia Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the country had supported a UN resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza out of concern for civilians in the besieged enclave, in a rare split with close ally the United States.

The United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip as U.S. President Joe Biden warned Israel it was losing international support because of its “indiscriminate” bombing of civilians in its war against Hamas militants.

A Pakistan court overturned a conviction for graft of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his lawyer said, removing one of the last major hurdles for him to qualify to contest national elections in February.