India’s Muslim minority has plunged acter a bus blaze near Medina in Saudi Arabia that killed at least 45 Indian pilgrims, according to Saudi and Indian officials.
Tens of thousands of climate change delegates have failed to bring down the curtain over the use of oil and natural gas amid opposition from some countries led by Saudi Arabia, as well as the United States.
At least three personnel were killed Monday when suicide bombers attacked the headquarters of a paramilitary government force in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said.
Israel unleashed its most decisive and devastating blow in Lebanon since the 2024 ceasefire on Sunday, eliminating Hezbollah’s powerful military chief of staff, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, in a precise airstrike deep inside Beirut. The operation — code-named “Black Friday” — struck the third and fourth floors of a building in the Haret Hreik district, the very nerve center of the Iranian-backed terrorist organization.
The Netherlands’ military confirmed Saturday it opened fire on drones over Volkel Air Base in the southeast of the country, where the United States is widely believed to store nuclear weapons, though no wreckage was recovered.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was detained by Brazil’s federal police on Saturday, days before he was set to begin his 27-year prison sentence for “leading a coup attempt,” officials said.
Polish President Karol Nawrocki said Saturday that any peace plan for Ukraine must be decided in Kyiv, after the U.S. signaled it would press President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept a deal to end the war with Russia.
Vietnamese authorities said Saturday that the death toll from torrential rain, flooding, and landslides in central Vietnam has risen to 55, with 13 people reported missing.
Air traffic at Eindhoven airport in southern Netherlands was suspended for several hours late Saturday, shortly after the Ministry of Defense acknowledged that the Dutch military shot at similar flying objects over Volkel Air Base in the southeast of the country, where the United States is widely believed to store nuclear weapons.
Authorities say Ukraine struck a major heat and power station in Russia’s Moscow region on Sunday using drones, igniting a large fire and cutting off heating for thousands of residents. The attack — one of Kyiv’s deepest strikes into Russian territory to date — unfolded as the United States was attempting to advance a peace proposal between the two nations.