Israel’s warplanes pounded Gaza on Friday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas collapsed, sending wounded and dead Palestinians into hospitals and forcing hundreds to flee in the streets.

Israel resumed combat operations against Hamas in Gaza on Friday after accusing the Palestinian militant group of firing rockets at Israel and reneging on a deal to free all women held as hostages, violating their temporary truce agreement.

While trying to fulfil their mandate to keep the peace, U.N. soldiers deployed along Lebanon’s border with Israel during the worst hostilities there in nearly 20 years have another urgent concern: keeping their own forces safe.

The world is in danger of losing the fight against malaria, as cases of the disease rose by around 5 million year-on-year in 2022, exceeding global targets to contain it, a new World Health Organization report showed.

Britain’s King Charles began a visit to the United Arab Emirates, during which he will advocate for greater global action and accountability on climate change at the COP28 summit.

Hamas handed two female hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza City’s central Palestine Square and further hostages are expected to be released later in the evening following a last-minute deal struck with Israel to extend a truce.

The U.N. climate summit clinched an early victory Thursday, with delegates adopting a new fund to help poor nations cope with costly climate disasters.

A U.N. commission of inquiry investigating war crimes on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict will focus on sexual violence by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and is about to launch an appeal for evidence, its chair told Reuters.

Local authorities in a village in Nepal registered the Himalayan nation’s first same-sex marriage, officials and activists said, five months after the Supreme Court issued an interim order clearing the way for such marriages in the largely conservative country.

Bangladesh’s main opposition party said it would continue its anti-government protests despite what a rights group called an “autocratic crackdown” ahead of a general election in January.

A Pakistan court overturned the conviction of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a corruption case on Wednesday, his lawyer said, removing one of the many obstacles for him to qualify to stand in elections in February.

Four Palestinians, including an 8-year-old boy and a 15-year-old male as well as two senior militant commanders, were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian official news agency WAFA said.