Countries agreed a deal at the COP29 climate conference on rules for a global market to buy and sell carbon credits that proponents say will mobilise billions of dollars into new projects to help fight global warming.

Developed nations should pay $300 billion a year by 2035 to help poorer countries deal with climate change, according to a new draft deal from U.N. climate talks published early, after an earlier target of $250 billion was rejected.

A woman who was kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip has died in an Israeli attack in the enclave’s northern, the military arm of Hamas says.

A powerful Israeli air strike has targeted central Beirut, security sources say, shaking the Lebanese capital as Israel presses its offensive against the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.

President-elect Donald Trump says he has chosen prominent investor Scott Bessent as US Treasury secretary, a key cabinet position with vast influence over economic, regulatory and international affairs.

The United States and Fiji have started talks aimed at strengthening military ties between Washington and the Pacific island nation, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, concluding a trip to the Indo Pacific.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia would keep testing its new Oreshnik hypersonic missile in combat and had a stock ready for use, while Ukraine said it was already at work to develop air systems to counter the weapon.

Europe is pushing for stronger trade ties and clean energy co-operation with Australia as businesses look for certainty and world leaders shore up economic allies.

Russia is estimated to have supplied North Korea with more than a million barrels of oil since March this year, according to satellite imagery analysis from the Open Source Centre, a non-profit research group based in the UK.

At least 41 people – including women and children – have been killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire on a convoy of 200 passenger vehicles traveling through a remote area of Pakistan.

Israeli strikes killed at least 47 people in eastern Lebanon on Thursday, a Lebanese official said, pressing the campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah group as a U.S. mediator sought to advance ceasefire talks in Israel.

Gunmen have opened fire on vehicles carrying Shi’ite Muslims in Pakistan’s restive northwest, killing at least 42 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in one of the region’s deadliest such attacks in recent years.