China defence ministry spokesperson Wu Qian said that Australian complaints over recent Chinese live-fire naval drills in international waters.

Israel delayed the release of over 600 Palestinian prisoners it had agreed to free.

President Donald Trump will name newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The Vatican said that Pope Francis’ health had deteriorated over the past 24 hours and for the first time described his condition as “critical”, reporting he had needed supplemental oxygen and blood transfusions.

Israel prepared to receive six more hostages from Gaza in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, after accusations over the return of a misidentified body this week threatened to derail a fragile truce.

The city of Buriticupu, in the northeastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, is being slowly swallowed by the earth.

German police arrested a suspect in the stabbing at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial that seriously injured a man two days before a watershed national election.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday cut the duration of deportation protections and work permits for 521,000 Haitians covered by the Temporary Protected Status program so that they will expire in August, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge on Hamas on Thursday after the group released what it said were the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including the infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, the youngest of those abducted during the October 7, 2023 attack.

Spotify (SPOT.N), opens new tab is considering charging up to $5.99 a month on top of existing subscriptions for a new music streaming service that will include higher-quality audio, remixing tools and access to concert tickets, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.

ANZ Group (ANZ.AX), opens new tab, Australia’s fourth-biggest lender, said on Thursday that asset impairments jumped to their highest levels since 2021 in the first quarter, driven primarily by mortgages, sending its shares down 3%.

HSBC (HSBA.L), opens new tab is ditching its target of reaching net-zero carbon emissions across its business by 2030 because of slow change in the economy, the bank said on Wednesday, compounding fears from campaigners that the world’s biggest lenders are rowing back on climate pledges.