US President Donald Trump announced new weapons for Ukraine yesterday, and threatened to hit buyers of Russian exports with sanctions unless Russia agrees a peace deal in 50 days, a major shift in policy brought on by frustration with Moscow.

Spanish police have arrested eight people in connection with rare anti-migrant unrest that rocked the town of Torre Pacheco over the weekend, the interior minister said yesterday.

A German doctor yesterday went on trial accused of killing 15 patients with lethal injections and acting as “master of life and death” over those in his care.

Cambodia’s military will begin conscripting civilians next year, Prime Minister Hun Manet said yesterday, citing rising tensions with Thailand as the reason for activating a long-dormant mandatory enlistment law.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said yesterday that Beijing and New Delhi should work towards mutual trust and “win-win” cooperation, after talks with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, state news agency Xinhua reported.

The Israeli army said yesterday its warplanes attacked Gaza more than 100 times in the past 24 hours, claiming “terrorist organisations” are the targets, Al Jazeera reports.

More than 89 people were killed and dozens injured in armed clashes in Syria’s predominantly Druze city of Sweida, the Syrian interior ministry said early yesterday, in the latest bout of sectarian clashes.

President Volodymyr Zelensky met US special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg yesterday in the capital Kyiv, where they discussed boosting Ukraine’s air defences and Kyiv buying weapons with European help.

Iran will react to any reimposition of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear programme, the country’s foreign ministry spokesperson said yesterday, without elaborating on what actions Tehran might take.

A congressional inquiry into the attempt to assassinate US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally a year ago on Sunday lamented “inexcusable” failures in the Secret Service’s operations and response, and called for more serious disciplinary action.

A BBC documentary about children’s lives in Gaza narrated by the 13-year-old son of a Hamas official breached its editorial guidelines on accuracy, an internal review by the British public broadcaster said yesterday.

As the violence escalated, Israel said it struck several tanks

Araghchi and Witkoff met starting in April, without concluding a deal after five rounds of talks that were the highest-level contact between their two countries since Washington in 2018 abandoned a landmark nuclear agreement.

It also reported the closure of the Damascus-Sweida highway due to the violence.

Trump and his wife Melania will be welcomed by King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Windsor castle.

The 20-year-old prisoner escaped from Corbas prison on July 11

Eight children were among the 10 victims of a drone strike at a water point

Russia’s defence ministry said yesterday its forces had captured the villages of Mykolaivka and Myrne in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.

UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said yesterday the malnutrition cases have increased in Gaza since March when Israel banned the UN agency from the Strip and imposed an aid blockade on the besieged enclave.

The council emerged from nearly two years of strategic consultations involving leading Rohingya political figures, activists, community representatives, representatives from the camps and diaspora organisations