The United Nations on Saturday estimated that the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela caused $6.7 billion in physical damage, equivalent to six percent of GDP.

Uganda’s leading independent media group said it was under “military siege” yesterday after the army chief ordered the shutdown of its newspapers, TV station and radio outlets.

Iraqi security forces deployed in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone early yesterday with the raid targeting “several politicians”, a security official told AFP.

Three Pakistani Rangers were killed in a terror attack in the southern megacity Karachi on Saturday evening, the country’s military said, following an explosion and heavy gunfire.

Several people were injured, including one seriously, when lightning struck a tree at an amusement park in southern Sweden yesterday, the park and officials said.

A helicopter crash in Saudi Arabia killed 14 Saudi citizens yesterday, the kingdom’s official press agency reported, adding that the aircraft belonged to state oil giant Aramco.

Boos followed Venezuela’s interim leader Delcy Rodriguez during a visit to a Caracas neighborhood pulverized by two massive earthquakes.

A crown was blown off an ancient column in a Unesco-listed site in Lebanon’s port city of Tyre. A pilgrimage site for Muslims and Christians alike was destroyed in another southern town. Israeli strikes pummelled the Mamluk-era market in the city of Nabatieh and troops razed centuries-old Lebanese border towns. I

Ukraine hit two Russian oil refineries in the regions of Krasnodar and Yaroslavl overnight, President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday, as Kyiv ramps up pressure on Russia’s fuel supply with its drone fleet.

A civilian aircraft carrying skydivers crashed near the eastern French town of Tomblaine yesterday, killing all 11 people on board, local authorities said, in one of France’s deadliest light aircraft accidents.

Iraqi authorities arrested 47 officials, including members of parliament, yesterday as part of an anti-graft campaign in the corruption-plagued country, state media reported.

Iran’s foreign minister said yesterday the Strait of Hormuz will remain under Iran’s total oversight and management for “the next 30 days”, and warned that any challenge to the country’s control of the strategic waterway would increase tensions.

French health officials said yesterday there had been around 1,000 more deaths than expected during a record-breaking heatwave that has baked much of western Europe for days.

Remarks follow a court ruling clearing the way to revoke deportation protections for migrants from conflict-hit countries

Cause was unknown and an investigation is ongoing

Sunday's operation was launched on direct orders from Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi

The aircraft reportedly carried a group of people on a skydiving trip

Uganda's leading independent media group said it was under "military siege" on Sunday after the army chief ordered the shutdown of its newspapers, TV station and radio outlets

The heat eased across France on Sunday after days of punishing temperatures that saw the mercury rising above 40C in many areas

No abnormalities were reported at the Higashidori nuclear power plant in Aomori or at the Onagawa nuclear power complex in Miyagi Prefecture, according to Tohoku Electric Power Co