A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck southern Panama on Friday, damaging buildings and sending ​thousands into the streets, but the country appeared to escape widespread destruction or deaths.

Facebook and Instagram-owner Meta opens new tab has banned advertisements by ByteDance, the Chinese parent of TikTok, on its platforms in ​the United States and a handful of other countries, a company spokesperson said.

Hurricane Isaias strengthened on Thursday as it barreled ​toward the US Gulf Coast, prompting mandatory evacuations in parts of Florida and emergency declarations in Alabama as forecasters warned of life-threatening storm ‌surges, tornadoes and flooding.

President Donald Trump said on Friday that Russia had agreed to supply ​diesel to global markets in an effort to lower fuel prices, and his administration temporarily lifted US sanctions on Russian fuel that were designed to deprive Moscow of revenues for its ‌war on Ukraine.

A man has been charged for his alleged “offensive” behaviour on a footbridge at the centre of the Bondi Beach massacre.

Thousands of Spaniards marched through central Madrid on Thursday to mark ​the death of the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her home ignited protests across the country and led to a snap election next month.

British police on Thursday said that search warrants they secured to search properties linked ‌to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had been issued unlawfully and must be quashed, but said the investigation into King Charles’ younger brother was ongoing.

The World Meteorological Organization, in its monthly climate bulletin, has stated that this year’s El Niño will intensify before peaking in December and is nearly 100% certain to last until February 2027.

British counter-terrorism police are investigating after two Latvian men were arrested ‌inside a Royal Air Force base used by US personnel, authorities said on Thursday.

Northern Irish police have contacted representatives of Sinn Fein in relation to their investigation into a protest that has blocked a Protestant ​parade from marching through a Catholic area for almost two weeks, ‌the Irish nationalist party said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukraine expected Kyiv’s European ​partners to join talks with the US ‌in coming days.

Italy’s lower ​house of parliament gave final approval on Thursday to a fiercely contested electoral reform championed by Prime Minister ‌Giorgia Meloni which provides the framework for a national election due next year.