A record number of humanitarian workers were attacked last ‌year, driven partly by increased use of armed drones, the United Nations said on Wednesday, calling the trend “appalling”.

A government-owned ferry that capsized on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba last week was carrying about ​180 passengers, double what police had given ‌as its capacity, the government said on Tuesday, as the death toll rose to 94.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday unsealed new and updated charges against 17 individuals working with an Iranian ​company that it alleges carried out hacks and data theft ‌against U.S. universities, companies and government agencies.

Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab rejected accusations by U.S. states that it intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook and Instagram platforms in pursuit of profit, at the start of a trial that could reshape ​some of the most popular apps on the planet.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for ​stronger independent defence capabilities, while saying annual civil-defence exercises coinciding ‌with joint U.S.-South Korea military drills were defensive and not intended to threaten North Korea.

A U.S. judge ordered the release of a Kentucky woman who was accused of vandalism at the World War ​Two Memorial in Washington last week, court records showed.

Someone will have to pick up the tab for the damage wrought by Europe’s increasingly volatile weather, and with the bulk of those economic losses uninsured, that will be the public purse unless immediate action is taken.

Iran will shift to a “fully offensive” military ​posture because efforts to negotiate a permanent end to the war with the U.S. have stalled, a senior Iranian official told Reuters, as Washington ruled out extending ‌a temporary ceasefire agreement.

Two students were killed in a shooting at a high school in the southern Philippines, one of them the gunman, and the situation was now under control, ​officials said, the second such incident in the country in less than two months.

Meta has been hit with successive losses in court over how its platforms have targeted and harmed young users, but a jury trial set to begin on Tuesday may pose the biggest threat yet to its operations.

President Donald Trump’s approval rating fell to the lowest level of his presidency, ‌with an overwhelming majority of Americans concerned the U.S. war with Iran will last a long time, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded.

The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 2,325 people, government data showed on Sunday, surpassing the toll from the 2018-2020 outbreak to become the deadliest in the country’s history.