Thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr drew flak on social media for his use of a presidential helicopter to attend a concert by British rock band Coldplay in a province north of the capital, Manila.

At the end of a kilometer-long, booby-trapped tunnel in the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers discovered cramped cells where the military said Hamas kept about 20 hostages.

A grand temple to Hindu god Lord Ram opens on a site in India millions believe is his birthplace.

More than 10,000 New Zealand Maori congregated in the central North Island to discuss how to respond to government plans that are seen by many Indigenous groups as undermining their rights and status.

Missile attacks in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen threw into sharp focus the increasing risk of the war in Gaza.

Large swaths of Australia sweltered in a heatwave, the nation’s weather forecaster said.

Army units were mobilised to help about 600 drivers who were stuck on a motorway in heavy snow as Storm Juan blanketed many parts of Spain, authorities.

Commanders from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group are on the ground in Yemen helping to direct and oversee Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, four regional and two Iranian sources told Reuters.

Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan’s West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report seen by Reuters on Friday.

Parts of Western Australia were gripped on Saturday by an “extreme” heat-wave, raising the risk of bush fires in the vast state, the nation’s weather forecaster said.

Four oil tanks at a large storage facility in the town of Klintsy in Russia’s western Bryansk region caught fire on Friday after the military brought down a Ukrainian strike drone there, Alexander Bogomaz, the regional governor, said.