Israel’s government on Saturday rebuffed an outlook downgrade on the country from credit ratings agency Moody’s, while tens of thousands of Israelis returned to the streets to protest against a planned overhaul of the country’s judiciary.

Six additional laboratory-confirmed cases of Marburg disease have been reported in Equatorial Guinea.

Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s Papua region killed nine army personnel after Jakarta did not respond to a request for negotiations, a rebel spokesperson said.

Clashes between Sudan’s main paramilitary group and the armed forces killed at least 25 people.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unhurt after a suspect threw what appeared to be a smoke bomb at an outdoor speech in western Japan.

Ukrainian and Russian armed forces are fighting extraordinarily bloody battles in the smashed eastern city of Bakhmut, but pro-Kyiv forces are still holding on, Ukraine’s military said.

A Russian missile strike killed eight people in eastern Ukraine.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a bill on Friday allowing juries to recommend the death penalty in capital cases on an 8-4 vote.

A Russian missile strike killed eight people in eastern Ukraine as a British assessment said Ukrainian troops had been forced to withdraw from parts of the city of Bakhmut, the focus of Moscow’s slow advance through the region.

Washington imposed sanctions on two entities based in China, accusing them supplying precursor chemicals to drug cartels in Mexico for the production of illicit fentanyl intended for the United States, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily halted lower court rulings that set limits on access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

European foreign policy officials on Friday urged China not to use force over Taiwan, taking a tough stance against Beijing’s threats over the democratically governed island, after comments by French President Emmanuel Macron were perceived as weak.