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The State of Israel has launched a preemptive strike against Iran, declaring a special and immediate state of emergency throughout Israel. Citizens were warned to remain near protected areas following the announcement by Defense Minister Israel Katz.

Israeli air strikes have targeted Blat and Wadi Barghouti in several strikes in southern Lebanon's Iqlim al-Tuffah region, in the latest violation of a ceasefire reached in November 2024 between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, according to an Al Jazeera correspondent on the ground. The Israeli military said its forces were launching attacks on Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon. This is the usual army line, but large numbers of civilians and civilian infrastructure have been targeted in the ongoing near-daily Israeli attacks.

The fastest way of arresting someone is to surprise them, when they're enjoying life, not knowing what's going on around them. You cannot hide from the invisible, or from what you cannot see. The inspiration for disguises comes from fieldwork and criminal profiling. In the lion dance case, officers were aware the suspect had fled to a new area, and that lunar new year festivities, when the streets would be busy with celebrations, would provide a good opportunity for them to blend into crowds.

According to the documents, Epstein had ties with former South African President Jacob Zuma; Karim Wade, a politician and son of Senegal's ex-president Abdoulaye Wade; and deceased Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. The new files also shed more light on Epstein's connections to a relative of Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara, who appeared to connect the two men.

Pakistan's military fended off attacks by the Taliban along its border with Afghanistan in the latest outburst of tensions between the two neighbors.

South Africa's Foreign Minister, Ronald Lamola, met with the families of 11 South African men recently repatriated after being lured into the conflict. The ministry said it was deeply concerned by the "suspicious circumstances" and predatory recruitment tactics used. Separately, Lamola said two South Africans had died fighting for Russia.

South Korea has resisted Google's appeals since 2011, arguing that the company's precise satellite maps could endanger national security by exposing sensitive military sites when combined with commercial imagery and online data. Given that South Korea remains technically at war with North Korea, the government is cautious about exposing such locations.

I have not touched a paper note for months. I don't even have money to pay for a taxi. Now we walk a lot, for long distances. Palestinians in Gaza use the Israeli currency, the shekel, in their daily transactions, and depend on Israel to supply banks with new banknotes and coins.

At least 7,667 people went missing or died on migration routes worldwide last year, according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM). The IOM has called for improved financial support for rescue organizations, as well as the dismantling of smuggling networks that put lives at risk.

Of the 129 journalists killed around the world in 2025, the Israeli military was responsible for 86, about two-thirds of the deaths, the CPJ found. The death toll is the highest since the New York-based press freedom group started tracking the killing of journalists in 1992.

The draw for the knockout rounds of the Europa League will be completed this week as teams including Aston Villa and possibly Nottingham Forest learn their potential route to May's final in Istanbul. Tonight's midweek play-off matches will send eight teams though to the last 16 to join the clubs who finished in the top eight of the league phase, with the likes of Porto, Roma and Lyon joined by Premier League high-flyers Villa.

That's when the UFO came and crashed our party. My potential alien encounter started out as a pinpoint of light that was not much bigger than one of those brilliant stars. It came straight down out of the sky and hovered a few miles away at the shore of the lake. It moved quickly along the shoreline, making 90-degree turns and other maneuvers that no helicopter or jet could have accomplished.

At least 16 people, including eight women and children, have been killed in a collision between a bus and a truck in southern Yemen, according to local authorities. The accident occurred in the Lahmar area of the Al-Mahfad district, on a key transit route linking the provinces of Abyan and Shabwa.

If you insist on proceeding with the performance, then the prime minister's residence will be reduced to a blood-soaked ruin. The bomb warning came among several emails sent to Shen Yun that threatened Albanese, a spokesperson for the group said.

We clearly see that Russia is trying to drag African citizens into a deadly war. According to our data, there are currently over 1,780 citizens from the African continent fighting in the Russian army. The African soldiers hail from 36 countries and are part of a trend that is crucial to counter Ukraine's military on the front lines.

The crew of the violating speedboat opened fire on the Cuban personnel, resulting in the injury of the commander of the Cuban vessel, the statement said. As of the time of this report, four aggressors on the foreign vessel were killed, and six were injured.

In the 48 hours following the operation led by the Mexican army in Jalisco, hundreds of false or unverified posts circulated on various platforms. The attacks unleashed by the drug cartels in several states, with a succession of road blockades, vehicles set on fire, and clashes between federal security forces and armed groups, were magnified through content amplified by bots by the manipulation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and by the influence of the American far right.

Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, consolidated one of Mexico's most powerful criminal organisations in part due to a unique franchise-based structure. According to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the CJNG maintains a presence in every state of Mexico, with varying levels of influence, and operates in more than 40 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, and throughout the US.

The badly battered body of von Wiese-Mack, a 62-year-old wealthy Chicago socialite, was found in the boot of a taxi parked at the upmarket St Regis Bali resort in August 2014. Mack, who was almost 19 and a few weeks pregnant at the time of the killing, and Schaefer, 21 at the time, were arrested on the island a day after the body was found.