The kingdom said it intercepted a drone before it entered airspace over Mecca. The Iran-backed Yemeni rebels denied targeting the city in their escalating campaign against the key U.S. ally.

Health officials in Gaza say a building damaged months ago by an Israeli strike has collapsed, killing people from 6 displaced families who had taken shelter inside.

Turkey’s Justice Minister Akin Gurlek launched the crackdown, saying it was part of an initiative to protect children and family values.

A Russian drone strike on a passenger bus in southern Ukraine has killed five people and wounded at least seven. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls the attack an “atrocity” and part of

A gold mine collapse in a remote area in Sudan has killed at least 67 people, a medical group and survivors said Wednesday, the latest tragedy in a nation mired in a devastating war. The survivors said the collapse took place at al-Zara gold mine in the town of Nuhud in West Kordofan province,

The Kremlin orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot against a prominent Russian dissident in Washington, D.C., this summer, the Department of Justice has said, as it unsealed charges against five people it alleged were part of a “global assassination network” aimed at causing “destruction and mayhem around the world.

The Trump administration has announced that it will impose travel bans on officials it claims are responsible for discrimination against whites and other minority groups in South Africa.

China’s top military diplomat used a defense forum in Beijing to call on countries around the world to step up AI oversight, just as the new tech exacerbates a rivalry with the US.