Turkey says it has carried out a number of air strikes on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, hours after a suicide blast hit the interior ministry.

At least 13 people have died in a fire that engulfed three nightclubs in the south-eastern Spanish city of Murcia.

Yury Garavsky had confessed to being part of a hit squad in Belarus that forcibly disappeared prominent members of the country’s opposition. But that wasn’t enough for his conviction.

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has tested positive for COVID-19 and will work remotely while isolating, his office said on Sunday, just two weeks before a general election in which his Labour party is struggling.

Slovakia’s leftist former Prime Minister Robert Fico beat his progressive rival in a parliamentary election after campaigning to end military aid to Ukraine, but he will need to win over allies to form the next government, nearly complete results showed.

The US government has avoided a federal shutdown after both House and Senate agreed on a short-term funding deal.

Australia’s southeast on Sunday sweltered in a heat wave that raised the risk of bushfires and led authorities to issue fire bans for large swathes of New South Wales state.

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill that would have paid unemployment benefits to striking workers, and had drawn strong support from labor unions and from his fellow Democrats in the state legislature.

The death toll from a large blast at a mosque in Pakistan rose to 59 on Saturday.

Torrential downpours that caused flash flooding in New York City on Friday reflect a “new normal” due to the effects of climate change.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill on Saturday.

Kosovo on Saturday demanded that Serbia withdraw its troops from their common border, saying it was ready to protect its territorial integrity.