Three journalists and children are among the 11 Palestinians killed in the latest spate of Israeli air strikes.
Staff Writers
RSF attacks on the central Sudan's el-Obeid are ramping up with lives lost in drone strikes across the army-controlled city.
US President Donald Trump told the World Economic Forum in Davos he is seeking "immediate negotiations" to acquire Greenland, but said he would not "use force".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted US President Donald Trump's invitation to join his Board of Peace.
A million Ukraine households are without power after the latest Russian attacks cut heating to half of Kyiv, affecting substations critical for nuclear safety.
Dan Peleschuk and Yuliia Dysa
Syria's military says it is backing a four-day ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces following clashes.
Israel has demolished structures in the UN Palestinian refugee agency's east Jerusalem compound in an act the agency called a violation of international law.
Sam Metz
Donald Trump has responded to news that France intends to decline an invitation to join his Board of Peace by threatening tariffs on French wines and champagne.
Nandita Bose and Bo Erickson
Russia has blitzed the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with a combined drone and missile attack leaving thousands of buildings without heat in frigid weather.
Anna Pruchnicka and Olena Harmash
A deal between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces seems to be unravelling after new outbreaks of clashes.
GHAITH ALSAYED
A blast at a Chinese noodle restaurant in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed seven people, police say.
Hackers have disrupted Iranian state television to air footage supporting the exiled son of Iran's last shah, Reza Pahlavi.
Jon Gambrell
Australia is among eight more countries invited to join US President Donald Trump's new Board of Peace, created to oversee the next steps for Gaza.
CARA ANNA and JOSH BOAK
Weeks after tensions flared into violence, Syria's government and the US-backed Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have agreed an immediate ceasefire.
Ukraine says Russia has no desire to end the war and is ramping up its arms production, to meet a target of 1000 drones a day to unleash on war-weary Ukraine.
An Iranian official has blamed "terrorists and armed rioters" for the deaths of at least 5000 Iranians in nationwide protests across the Islamic Republic.
Ukraine's military says 30 strikes have been recorded across 15 locations in a deadly mass Russian drone attack.
Dan Peleschuk
Nations invited to join a Donald Trump-chaired "Board of Peace" are reportedly being asked to pay $US1 billion to stay in the position.
Syrian forces have captured a city and two dams as they push further into Kurdish-held territory, state media says.
Israel says composition of the Gaza executive board named by the Trump administration was not coordinated with Israel and contradicts its policy.
Donald Trump has been accused of encouraging violent unrest in Iran by the nation's supreme leader, who says the US president is considered a criminal.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former UK leader Tony Blair and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are members of a "Board of Peace" to govern Gaza.
Kanishka Singh
Medics say at least nine people have been killed in the Gaza Strip as Israeli strikes targeted a Hamas commander and another from Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
An internet blackout in Iran has eased while residents say calm has returned to the capital Tehran following protests that were crushed by security forces.
