Six European countries paused funding for the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA), following allegations that some of its staff were involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

Data gathered by NASA’s rover Perseverance has confirmed the existence of ancient lake sediments.

The pro-Taiwan leader of the Pacific Islands nation of Tuvalu, Kausea Natano, lost his seat in an election closely watched by Taiwan, China and the U.S., partial results showed.

Britain’s King Charles is doing well after having planned treatment to address an enlarged prostate.

Donald Trump leads Democratic President Joe Biden by six percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his centre-left government would soon legislate changes to planned tax cuts.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip but stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire.

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said it had opened an investigation.

Donald Trump was handed a stinging defeat by a Manhattan jury that ordered him to pay $83.3 million to the writer E. Jean Carroll.

Voting began on Friday in the tiny Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu in a national election that is being closely watched by China, Taiwan, the US and its ally Australia, amid a tussle for influence in the region.

In battered, hard-to-reach north Gaza, rare aid deliveries get mobbed by desperate, hungry Palestinians and aid workers report seeing people thin and visibly starving with sunken eyes.

A senior Russian lawmaker said Ukrainian military intelligence had been given a 15-minute warning before a Russian military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war entered an area where it was shot down on Wednesday, killing all on board.