Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to the family of Yevgeny Prigozhin on Thursday, breaking his silence after the mercenary leader’s plane crashed with no survivors two months after he led a mutiny against army chiefs.

Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, a polarising move that prompted China to announce an immediate blanket ban on all aquatic products from Japan.

The moon rover of India’s Chandrayaan-3 exited the spacecraft on Thursday to begin exploring the surface of the lunar south pole and conducting experiments, and was braced for new challenges, the space agency chief said.

The United States is looking at a number of theories over what brought down the plane presumed to be carrying mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, including a surface-to-air missile hitting it, U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday.

Israeli Arab groups are calling for an emergency session of the country’s parliament, after the latest series of murders within the community.

Three people have been killed in Russian artillery fire near the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman, Ukrainian authorities say.

A drone attack on Russia’s Belgorod region has killed three people, hours after another drone hit central Moscow, Russian officials say.

South Korea’s first nationwide air-raid drill in six years has met with a tepid public response, even amid a looming satellite launch by the North.

Fires that have claimed 20 lives in Greece are still burning out of control in foothills near Athens and the Evros region near the border with Turkey.

At least 26 people have been killed and more are feared missing after a railway bridge under construction collapsed in north-eastern India, officials said.

Japan’s controversial plan to release treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean has sparked anxiety and anger at home and abroad.

One of Russia’s leading military figures, Gen Sergei Surovikin, has reportedly lost his job as air force chief after weeks of speculation about his disappearance from public view.