Israel won’t be involved in new Gaza aid plan, only in security, US envoy says

Pakistan’s armed forces launched “multiple attacks” using drones and other munitions along India’s entire western border on Thursday night and early Friday, the Indian army said, as conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours intensified.

The Trump administration is working to bring the first group of white South Africans it has classified as refugees to the United States early next week.

Bill Gates pledged on Thursday to give away $200 billion via his charitable foundation by 2045 and lashed out at Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children” through huge cuts to the U.S. foreign aid budget.

The U.S. State Department said on Thursday that a solution to be able to deliver food aid to Gaza was “steps away” and an announcement was coming shortly, as the aid community expressed skepticism that the plan would bring relief to the enclave’s conflict-ravaged population.

Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Thursday, Russia had repeatedly violated its own 3-day ceasefire hours after it began and called the initiative a “farce“, while Moscow said Kyiv had continued fighting.

Dozens of community kitchens in Gaza shut their doors on Thursday due to a lack of supplies, closing off a lifeline used by hundreds of thousands of people in a further blow to efforts to combat growing hunger in the enclave.

A top Chinese-made Pakistani fighter plane shot down at least two Indian military aircraft on Wednesday, two U.S. officials told Reuters, marking a major milestone for Beijing’s advanced fighter jet.

Chinese President Xi Jinping told Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Thursday their two countries should be “friends of steel“, as they pledged to raise cooperation to a new level and “decisively” counter the influence of the United States.

Blasts rang out across the Indian city of Jammu late on Thursday during what the government said was a Pakistani drone and missile attack on military stations around the Kashmir region on the second day of clashes between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the Catholic Church, taking the name Leo XIV.

Romania’s hard-right presidential frontrunner George Simion will win the May 18 run-off vote against centrist Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, an opinion survey showed on Wednesday, as the two clashed over worldviews and deficits in a debate.