French movie star and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has died at age 91, her foundation said yesterday.

Israeli forces imposed a lockdown on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, their second day of operations there after a local resident “killed two people in Israel”.

The droves of young people who queued to cast ballots in past elections in Myanmar were conspicuous by their absence from yesterday’s military-run polls, with older voters dominating the turnout.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine was in no hurry for peace and if it did not want to resolve their conflict peacefully, Moscow would accomplish all its goals by force.

Moscow is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at a former airbase in eastern Belarus, a development that could bolster Russia’s ability to deliver missiles across Europe, two US researchers have found by studying satellite imagery.

A 470-kilogramme (1,000-pound) World War II aerial bomb was safely removed yesterday from a construction site in a central district of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, police said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine was in no hurry for peace and if it did not want to resolve their conflict peacefully, Moscow would accomplish all its goals by force.

Kosovo voters headed to the polls yesterday for snap parliamentary elections, hoping to end ten months of political deadlock and crisis.

Guinea held a presidential election yesterday with victory all but assured for Mamady Doumbouya, a general who led the junta that seized power in the west African country four years ago.

No reports of violence by the time voting ended

In the attack on Friday a 34-year-old Palestinian man killed two people in northern Israel.

At least 47 people were killed and more than a million displaced in three weeks of fighting with artillery, tanks, drones and jets, according to official tallies.

People in much of the Northeast were advised to stay off the roads

Campaigners, Western diplomats and the UN's rights chief have all condemned the phased month-long vote

Russia claimed on Saturday to have captured two more towns in eastern Ukraine, Myrnograd and Guliaipole, a day ahead of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's meeting with US President Donald Trump

Saudi Arabia yesterday warned it would back Yemen’s government in any military confrontation with separatist forces and urged them to withdraw “peacefully” from recently-seized provinces.

US President Donald Trump urged the Justice Department Friday to “embarrass” any Democrats who worked with Jeffrey Epstein after it began poring over millions of documents linked to the late sex offender.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will depart for the United States today and meet with President Donald Trump in Florida a day later, an Israeli official told AFP.

Russia pummelled Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with drones and missiles yesterday, killing one woman and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, ahead of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s latest talks with US leader Donald Trump.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Taiwan's northeastern coast on Saturday, the island's weather agency said, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage