Authorities in Madagascar imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the capital, after protests over frequent power outages and water shortages turned violent, according to a top security official.

The sniper who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas left behind notes saying he acted alone in an attack intended to kill and “terrorize” ICE agents, whose work he viewed as “human trafficking,” officials said on Thursday.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that his plan to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations to U.S. and global investors will address the national security requirements in a 2024 law.

Hong Kong and several coastal cities in China’s southern Guangdong province reopened businesses, transportation services and schools on Thursday after the world’s most powerful tropical cyclone this year lashed the region.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in jail for criminal conspiracy over attempts to raise campaign funds from Libya, a spectacular downfall for the conservative who led France from 2007-2012.

More than 1,000 children in Indonesia’s West Java have suffered food poisoning this week from school lunches, authorities said, the latest in a series of outbreaks and another setback for the president’s multi-billion-dollar free meals programme.

Israeli forces advanced deeper into Gaza City on Thursday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly, with U.S. President Donald Trump pursuing a deal to end the Gaza war.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged at the United Nations on Thursday to work with U.S. President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia, France and the United Nations on a peace plan for Gaza overwhelmingly backed by the world body.

A gunman who wrote “ANTI-ICE” on an unused bullet killed one detainee and badly wounded two others when he fired on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas from a nearby rooftop before taking his own life, officials said.

Typhoon Ragasa, the world’s most powerful tropical cyclone this year, struck the southern Chinese city of Yangjiang on Wednesday after killing 17 people in Taiwan and lashing Hong Kong with ferocious winds and heavy rains.

More than half of Australian workers are using artificial intelligence tools every day but most of their bosses say they are yet to see organisations transformed by the technology.

Residents in a Taiwan town where flooding from a typhoon killed 17 people sought shelter on Wednesday fearing further disaster after a lake burst its banks, as Premier Cho Jung-tai called for an inquiry into what went wrong with evacuation orders.