Catastrophic flash floods that have killed at least 72 people in Spain are caused by a destructive weather system.

The United Nations Security Council “strongly warned against any attempts to dismantle or diminish” the operations and mandate of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA after Israel passed a law banning its operations.

Britain has detected its first case of new mpox variant clade Ib, the country’s health security agency (UKHSA) said on Wednesday, adding that the risk to the population remained low.

A Vatican tribunal defended its 2023 decision to convict a senior Catholic cardinal of misappropriation of funds, saying the prelate was “aware of all the steps” in a botched $200 million London real estate deal.

With the U.S. election days just away, officials in the most competitive battleground states are bracing for misinformation, conspiracy theories, threats and possible violence.

U.S. State Department officials have identified nearly 500 potential incidents of civilian harm during Israel’s military operations in Gaza.

Wrapped in gauze from her head to her tiny toes, toddler Ivana Skayki lies nearly motionless in a hospital bed much too big for her.

At least 72 people have been killed in the deadliest flooding to hit Spain for three decades.

The Canadian government alleged on Tuesday that Indian Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah, a close ally of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was behind the plots to target Sikh separatists on Canadian soil.

Australia said it was boosting its missile defence capability amid “significant concerns” about China’s test of an ICBM in the South Pacific, and will bolster weapons stockpiles and exports to security partners as the region enters a new “missile age”.

At least 93 Palestinians were killed or missing and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on Tuesday, the Gaza health ministry said, and the U.S. called the incident “horrifying”.

Russia test-fired missiles over distances of thousands of miles on Tuesday to simulate a “massive” nuclear response to an enemy first strike.