A new earthquake has hit western Afghanistan – several days after two large tremors in the region killed more than 1,000 people.

One of Iran’s most prominent film directors, Dariush Mehrjui, has been found dead alongside his wife.

The right-wing populist Law and Justice party is on course to win most seats in Poland’s general election.

Lebanese Hezbollah fighters launched attacks on Israeli army posts and a northern border village.

The opposition National Party has won the New Zealand election, taking enough seats to form a coalition with its allies on the right wing of politics.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the Egyptian-controlled border crossing into Gaza would reopen and the U.S. was working with Egypt.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the actions and policies of Islamist group Hamas do not represent Palestinian people, according to official news agency WAFA.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev raised the national flag in the capital of the former breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

As Israel intensified air strikes on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and told residents to move south towards the border with Egypt.

Polish police negotiators persuaded a man to come down from a monument in a central Warsaw square.

Thousands of Palestinians fled the north of the Gaza Strip from the path of an expected Israeli ground assault.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser said hostilities with Lebanese Hezbollah in parallel with the Gaza war appeared to be restrained.