Pro-Palestinian demonstrators staged protests in London, Berlin, Paris, Ankara, Istanbul and Washington to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and castigate Israel after its military intensified its assault against Hamas.

After days of uncertainty, Mexican authorities turned over the body of Jose Ramiro Castro.

Hamburg police said they were dealing with a hostage situation after a man drove through a barrier onto the grounds of the city’s airport with a child.

Arab leaders urged an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.

Arab leaders publicly pressed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to secure an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, hours after Palestinians said an Israeli air strike killed at least 15 people in a U.N.-run school being used as a shelter.

At least 128 people were killed and dozens injured in Nepal when a strong earthquake struck the western area of Jajarkot.

India’s capital New Delhi was wrapped in a thick layer of toxic haze and some schools were ordered closed as the air quality index (AQI) plummeted to the “severe” category.

At least 69 people were killed and dozens injured in Nepal when a strong earthquake struck the western area of Jajarkot, with witnesses saying houses in the area collapsed and buildings as far as New Delhi, India, shook.

Israel struck an ambulance in Gaza City that it said was carrying militants, but which health authorities in the Hamas-controlled enclave said was evacuating wounded people from the besieged north to the south of the territory.

Israeli forces encircled Gaza City – the Gaza Strip’s main city – in their assault on Hamas, the military said, but the Palestinian militant group resisted their drive with hit-and-run attacks from underground tunnels.

Top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken was due in Israel to call for localised pauses in fighting to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza as Israel said it surrounded the Palestinian enclave’s biggest city and the focus of its drive to annihilate Hamas.

Hunter Biden said his history of substance abuse has become fodder for a disinformation campaign against President Joe Biden ahead of his father’s re-election bid.