In northern Israel, two men aged 85 and 34 were moderately injured on Thursday morning by shrapnel after a Hezbollah attack, MDA reported. Two infants were lightly wounded by the impact of a ballistic missile's shrapnel after Iranian attacks triggered sirens across Israel four times on Wednesday night.

Source: Hezbollah using homes as hiding spots for reconnaissance, launchpads for anti-tank fire • More fighters detained after surrendering to Israeli soldiers The IDF has begun demolishing homes in southern Lebanese villages located along the border with Israel, military sources said on Wednesday morning. According to the sources, the houses targeted by the military were used by the Hezbollah terrorist group as bases to launch anti-tank fire and conduct reconnaissance of Israeli forces.

The project is developed in collaboration with Orascom Development Egypt and Arabian Peninsula Hospitality.

A new rule that prohibits Germany's petrol stations from hiking prices more than once day is unlikely to bring down costs for motorists, consumer experts said on Thursday one day after the restriction took effect. "At the moment, it doesn't look as though the new rule will actually make filling up any cheaper," Ramona Pop, head of the Federation of German Consumer Organizations, told dpa.

Following discussions about a proposal for 80% of Syrians in Germany to return home, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani has rejected the idea of forced deporations. He stressed that Syrians in the diaspora "are strategic resources, not a burden.

After Sri La nka's President Anura Kumara Dissanayake held a press conference in March 2026 on the country's energy shortage caused by the Middle East war, an old video circulated in social media posts falsely claiming it showed his party's secretary Tilvin Silva criticising his response to the crisis. The clip is from 2020 and shows Silva slamming Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the president at the time, over his government's Covid response.

Iran and its Lebanese Hezbollah militia proxy on Thursday fired rockets again at Israel, where people are currently celebrating Passover. In the morning, warning sirens sounded repeatedly in northern Israel.

Mehran Rezvani, who grew up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, has become a devoted supporter and volunteer for Israel. ‘Truth is stranger than fiction” goes the time-tested saying coined by Lord Byron in 1823.

Environmental groups have called for a faster move away from oil and gas, arguing that the Iran war and its consequences have exposed Germany's continued dependence on imported fossil fuels. In a joint paper seen by dpa, the organizations said Germany's reliance on fossil fuel imports was fuelling inflation and economic uncertainty, much as it did during the 2022 energy crisis that followed the start of Russia's war against Ukraine.

More than 200 years after being sunk by Adm. Horatio Nelson and the British fleet, a Danish warship has been discovered on the seabed of Copenhagen Harbor by marine archaeologists. Working in thick sediment and almost zero visibility 15 meters (49 feet) beneath the waves, divers are working against the clock to unearth the 19th-century wreck of the Dannebroge before it becomes a construction site in a new housing district being built off the Danish coast. Denmark’s Viking Ship Museum, which is

Nepal Police’s Central Investigation Bureau reportedly found the years-long scam generated thousands of dollars for the alleged scammers involved

Now electricity lights her home and powers the small shop she runs from her veranda. Hundreds of kilometers (miles) from Nairobi in Sori, western Kenya, fisherman Samuel Oketch tells a similar story.

An earthquake in Indonesian waters set off small tsunami waves Thursday morning, killed at least one person and damaged houses and buildings, officials said. The magnitude -7.4 earthquake was centered in the Molucca Sea at a depth of 35 kilometers (22 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. Tsunami waves were recorded at several monitoring stations less than half an hour later, including in Bitung with a height of 20 centimeters (8 inches) and in West Halmahera with a height of 30 centimeters

(Bloomberg) -- Western Australia invoked emergency powers to force fuel suppliers to provide detailed information on their supply chains, as the nation seeks to manage an ongoing shortage spurred by panic-buying in the wake of the war in Iran.The state government activated the powers under the Fuel, Energy and Power Resources Act after several companies failed to provide specific data and information on fuel shipments, it said in a statement on Wednesday. Western Australia is a major global expo

SYDNEY, April 2 (Reuters) - Australia will provide up to A$1 billion ($693 million) in interest-free loans to critical ‌businesses, including transport operators and fertiliser producers, Prime Minister Anthony ‌Albanese will say on Thursday, as they grapple with surging fuel costs. The support package ​comes as the Iran war disrupts global fuel supplies, driving up prices and fuelling concerns of availability as Australia imports more than 80% of its fuel.

The Israeli Air Force struck dozens of military facilities in Iran's capital Tehran, the Israeli military said on Wednesday. "Overnight, the Israeli Air Force, acting on intelligence, completed a broad wave of strikes against dozens of military infrastructure sites of the Iranian terror regime in the heart of Tehran," the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posted on Telegram.

Police in Delhi, India, have arrested a man accused of smuggling alcohol into the city using camels to avoid tax checkpoints, CBS News reported Tuesday. Authorities said they seized 1,938 containers of illegal liquor and took custody of two camels used in the operation. The arrests were made Monday following an investigation into cross-border smuggling […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The first foreign troop tied to a new gang-suppression force backed by the United Nations has arrived in Haiti to help quell ongoing violence, according to a statement issued Wednesday. A team from the central African country of Chad are in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, as is Jack Christofides, the force’s special representative, who was deployed at the request of the Haitian government, according to an official statement posted on the new force's X account. The

Initial reports suggest that approximately 10 ballistic missiles were fired in the past few minutes, marking one of the most significant barrages from Iran in recent weeks. The IDF said Wednesday afternoon that missiles were launched from Iran toward Israeli territory, as air defense systems moved to intercept the incoming threat.

A ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson collided with an industrial krill trawler in Antarctica in what the ship's Norwegian owner said was a “deliberate attack” that endangered its crew and could've caused a disaster in the same environmentally sensitive waters the activists claim they want to protect. A two-minute video provided to The Associated Press by the Aker QRILL Co. shows the moment Tuesday when the M/V Bandero, operated by the Captain Paul Watson Found

A new rule to limit fuel price hikes took effect in Germany on Wednesday, limiting petrol station to raising prices no more than once a day in a bid to bring down costs for motorists amid a surge in oil prices caused by the Iran war. Under the new restrictions, petrol stations are only allowed to raise prices once at midday to limit price fluctuations and ensure greater transparency.

The United Nations has warned that freedom of expression is under threat in many countries across the Middle East due to the war. Volker Türk, the UN human rights chief, reported on Wednesday that around 3,000 people have been arrested since the start of the war.

Powerful blasts destroyed homes and sparked panic in the city of Bujumbura on Tuesday night.

The European Commission has prepared the legal groundwork to disburse the first tranche of a €90 billion ($104. 5 billion) loan for war-torn Ukraine that remains blocked amid resistance from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has attributed a controversial statement that 80% of the more than 900,000 Syrians in Germany should go back home within three years to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Merz made the announcement during al-Sharaa's visit to Germany on Monday, and clarified a day later that "the figure of 80% returnees within three years was cited by the Syrian president.

No further attempts will be made to rescue a humpback whale who has gotten repeatedly stuck off Germany's Baltic coast, officials said on Wednesday, as experts believe the animal will not survive its week-long ordeal. Till Backhaus, environment minister for the north-eastern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern region where the whale is currently stranded, said a restricted zone has been established around the animal to allow it to die in peace as there was no more hope of freeing it.

The army has been deployed to five of South Africa's nine provinces for a year-long operation.

For more than a decade, South Africa’s economy has barely grown, leaving it with crumbling infrastructure and the need to create jobs.

Two pro-Palestine campaign leaders are found guilty of breaching police conditions at a protest.

The Israeli military announced on Wednesday that it had killed a high-ranking Hezbollah commander in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Telegram that it had "eliminated Hajj Yusuf Ismail Hashem, the Hezbollah's Southern Front Commander.