Tens of thousands of Pacific islanders working in Australia are facing exploitation, with concerns their rights have been stripped so low it borders on slavery.

Israel Border Police have confirmed they fired live rounds at buildings in a West Bank town this month, on the day an Australian student was hit in the face by shrapnel.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement fired heavy rocket barrages at Israel on Sunday, and the Israeli military said houses had been destroyed or set alight near Tel Aviv, after a powerful Israeli airstrike killed at least 29 people in Beirut the day before.

Fiji is on the frontline of climate change, with rising sea levels, coastal erosion, and flooding severely impacting coastal and river-adjacent communities.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Brooke Rollins, president of the America First Policy Institute, to be agriculture secretary.

A British man has been captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine, according to reports.

A Pakistani government team has mediated a seven-day ceasefire deal between rival sectarian groups, halting days of clashes that have killed at least 68 people and injured dozens in the northwest of the country, one of the mediators said.

The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders to residents in areas of an eastern Gaza City suburb, setting off a new wave of displacement, and a Gaza hospital director was injured in an Israeli drone attack, Palestinian medics said.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will discuss the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday during his visit to Ankara, a Turkish official said.

A gunman has been shot dead and three policemen are injured after a shooting incident near the Israeli embassy in Jordan.

Countries at the COP29 summit in Baku adopted a $300 billion global finance target to help poorer nations cope with the impacts of climate change, a deal roundly criticized by its intended recipients as woefully insufficient.

This year’s U.N. climate summit delivered a deal on climate finance two days past deadline, after two weeks of tense negotiations.