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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Officials said a strike in the Bucha district triggered a warehouse detonation and damaged homes west of Kyiv; the circumstances at the site are under investigation.
A new US order declares a national emergency over foreign-supplied bulk-power equipment and directs agencies to strengthen procurement rules; it does not identify a specific grid incident.
Moscow’s foreign ministry has issued a fresh threat tied to British missile technology for Ukraine; the statement is an escalation in rhetoric, not evidence of an imminent attack.
Qatar says it is backing efforts to reduce escalation and restore maritime navigation, while AP reports its prime minister is in Tehran for talks with Iran’s foreign minister.
Nepal has opened an emergency-response channel for foreign nationals after catastrophic flooding near its Tibet border, as the death toll and missing-person figures continue to change.
Baloch Sadiq Azad reflects on Kalat, Baloch political memory and the symbolic place of Balochistan’s mountains.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has again put anti-ballistic defence at the centre of talks with European partners, while Kyiv says access to Patriot interceptors depends on political decisions and production capacity.
General Anil Chauhan says a loitering munition sent to seek radar targets near Sargodha may have come down on one of the hills after its operational time elapsed.
The UN says Israeli authorities entered and seized an inviolable UN facility in occupied East Jerusalem, putting vocational education for 340 Palestine Refugee youth at immediate risk.
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The Strasbourg court says Türkiye must release the imprisoned philanthropist at the earliest possible date and remove the consequences of his conviction.
The mayor and a Haitian rights group give converging but still provisional casualty estimates after an overnight attack in Kenscoff.
UNMISS says unidentified armed individuals attacked a patrol travelling to Pajut in Jonglei state; seven other people were injured.
The 45-day congressional notification period has ended, closing a designation that had stood since 1979 and removing a major legal barrier to investment.
