The death toll from Maui’s wildfires rose to 53 on Thursday as the fast-moving conflagration that turned the resort town of Lahaina into smouldering ruins was 80% contained, officials said.

Iran has released five US-Iranian dual nationals into house arrest, US officials say.

The words Fernando Villavicencio shouted into a microphone at a campaign rally just moments before he died in a hail of bullets could, just a few years ago, have been dismissed as an exaggeration, a rhetorical flourish.

Arkady Volozh, a co-founder of Russia’s technology giant Yandex, has described Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine as “barbaric”.

Ukraine has ordered the mandatory evacuation of all civilians from 37 settlements in the northeast as Russia steps up its attacks there.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un replaced the military’s top general and called for more preparations for the possibility of war.

A wildfire that swept through the resort town of Lahaina on Hawaii’s Maui island has killed at least 36 people, authorities said.

Wildfires fanned by winds of a distant hurricane killed at least six people and devastated much of the resort city of Lahaina on Hawaii’s Maui island on Wednesday, forcing thousands to evacuate as some fled into the ocean to escape the smoke and flames.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday classified the EG.5 coronavirus strain circulating in the United States and China as a “variant of interest” but said it did not seem to pose more of a threat to public health than other variants.

Two people were killed in Lebanon on Wednesday in an exchange of fire between Hezbollah members and residents of a Christian village after a truck belonging to the heavily armed Shi’ite group overturned in the area, security sources said.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order that will narrowly prohibit certain U.S. investments in sensitive technology in China and require government notification of funding in other tech sectors.

A candidate in Ecuador’s upcoming presidential election has been shot dead.