A United Nations update says women heading households in Gaza are making survival decisions amid continuing air strikes, displacement and scarce resources.
The UN Secretary-General said recent visits by US envoys to Moscow and Kyiv could help restart talks, while warning that continuing attacks are driving humanitarian need far beyond the front lines.
Government figures cited by AP put suspected measles deaths at 999 this year, following disruptions to vaccination campaigns and a surge in infections among children.
Brent crude crossed $100 on Wednesday after attacks on ships and oil facilities added to disruption around key Gulf and Red Sea transit routes.
Regional officials told the Associated Press that Houthi operatives helped Iraqi militias plan a drone attack on Saudi facilities, describing a deeper level of coordination across Iran-aligned armed groups.
The Houthis said 32 air strikes hit four Yemeni provinces overnight after their attacks on Saudi energy facilities wounded dozens; there was no immediate independent damage assessment.
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Crisis is the establishment's most reliable instrument, and Pakistan's elected leaders keep handing it more ground
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held talks in Kyiv after meeting Vladimir Putin in Moscow, with air defence and winter energy support on the agenda but territorial demands still far apart.
The far-right Alternative for Germany fell just short of a majority in Saxony-Anhalt, weakening Friedrich Merz and reopening questions about the country's political firewall.
Federal investigators are examining how an Amazon cargo plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport, killing five people and injuring five others.
Two Israeli airstrikes on a southern Lebanese village killed at least nine people, including women and a child, Lebanon's Health Ministry said as tensions with Hezbollah rose again.
The eruption eased after 25 hours, but ash in the airspace around Jakarta forced seven airports to remain closed and moved schools online in affected provinces.
A proposed Saudi-backed energy programme in Afghanistan carries a $50 billion headline. The harder story is what still has to happen before that figure becomes real.
The article examines allegations that Lashkar-e-Taiba networks could operate under new labels, including possible ISKP attribution, across Kashmir and Balochistan, and argues that changing names do not necessarily mean changing infrastructure.
As Nepal counts more than 1,200 dead and thousands remain missing, scrutiny is growing around the infrastructure reshaping the Himalayan borderlands. No evidence yet proves that the Medog project caused the disaster.
Personal fear, autocratic power and the absence of a constitutional exit can turn political failure into a cycle of repression and escalation.
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told MPs that the E1 project risks making a Palestinian state unviable and that measures will follow in the coming weeks.
Air quality in parts of Sarawak has passed hazardous levels in the region's worst haze episode since 2015, closing schools and driving a sharp rise in respiratory illness.
More than 4,400 people remain missing after a glacial collapse in the Himalayas sent rock, ice and meltwater into valleys below, with hundreds feared trapped in hydropower tunnels.
Parents and teachers in Ituri question the return to class as confirmed cases pass 6,000 and no approved vaccine exists for the strain driving the outbreak.
At least 11 people were killed and more than a dozen wounded, including three children, in an overnight barrage of missiles and 218 drones and decoys, local authorities said.
Washington says the attacks followed Iranian attempts to hit commercial ships and American forces, ending a month without military action in a war now in its seventh month.
Asim Munir’s mission was presented as an effort to mediate between Washington and Tehran. The more consequential question may have been Iran’s place in an emerging Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani security order.
Pakistan's military governments often posted stronger headline growth than elected administrations. But the official record shows that the booms were repeatedly tied to exceptional external inflows, geopolitical patronage, debt restructuring and inherited capacity - while the country's deepest economic weaknesses survived. The larger cost was institutional: a political economy in which military supremacy, whether direct or exercised through civilian governments under tutelage, blurred accountability and shortened the horizon for reform.
A Science study based on coral records suggests El Niño events are strengthening as the planet warms, while some outside scientists question how the proxy data should be read.
European football leaders say FIFA’s withdrawal of a World Cup investment proposal does not resolve a wider governance crisis; UEFA is considering further institutional and legal steps.
The fire began in steep Monterey County terrain along California’s coast, briefly closing part of Highway 1 as crews worked to keep it from spreading through canyons.
Washington and Caracas described an agreement involving 17 fields, but the private operator, implementation timetable and commercial terms have not been made public in full.
UNICEF said the group had been released after an attack in Kenscoff in which more than 50 people were abducted and at least 47 people were killed.