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Multiple loud explosions were heard in several places in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday as India said it had attacked “terrorist infrastructure” in nine sites and Pakistan vowed to respond to the attacks.

Red-robed cardinals assembled in the Vatican on Wednesday to pray, shortly before being locked in to elect a new pope to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government warned India and Pakistan on Wednesday that further escalation was not “in the interest of the region” after they exchanged artillery fire along their contested frontier.

Three people have been arrested after a shoe was thrown at President William Ruto during a public rally. Analysts link the outburst to growing discontent over rising taxes and unkept pledges.

A multi-million-dollar US warplane failed to land on the Harry S Truman aircraft carrier and plummeted into the Red Sea, the US military said, the second jet lost from the ship in just over a week.

A federal judge ordered North Carolina’s election board on Monday to not throw out any ballots cast by voters in November in a close race for a seat on the state’s Supreme Court and to certify a sitting Democratic justice’s electoral victory.

The US and Yemen’s Houthis have agreed a ceasefire, mediators announced on Tuesday, saying the deal would ensure “freedom of navigation” in the Red Sea where the Iran-backed rebels have attacked shipping for months.

From influencer-only briefings to memes of Donald Trump as the pope and a Star Wars Jedi master, the White House is creating its own alternate media reality.

A senior Hamas official said the group was no longer interested in truce talks with Israel and urged the international community to halt Israel’s “hunger war” against Gaza.

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to win election as chancellor in a first round of voting by lawmakers, in an unexpected setback.

Donald Trump’s plan to reopen Alcatraz was mocked online Monday by people who suggested the US president got the idea from watching TV.

Iran strongly condemned Israeli air strikes on the Yemeni port city of Hodeida, following missile attacks by Tehran-backed Houthi rebels on Israel’s main airport.

Myanmar’s junta declared a new post-earthquake truce, days after the expiry of a previous humanitarian ceasefire it was accused of violating with a continued campaign of air strikes.

Russia and Ukraine launched more overnight air attacks on each other’s capitals on Wednesday, with two people killed as a result of the strikes on Kyiv and swarms of drones destroyed on their approach to Moscow.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif started an emergency meeting of the National Security Committee in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday, his office announced.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif started an emergency meeting of the National Security Committee in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday, his office announced.

Russia and Ukraine launched more overnight air attacks on each other’s capitals on Wednesday, with two people killed as a result of the strikes on Kyiv and swarms of drones destroyed on their approach to Moscow.

Myanmar’s junta declared a new post-earthquake truce, days after the expiry of a previous humanitarian ceasefire it was accused of violating with a continued campaign of air strikes.

A senior Hamas official said the group was no longer interested in truce talks with Israel and urged the international community to halt Israel’s “hunger war” against Gaza.

Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a military coup in 2023, won last month’s elections by a landslide. He has pledged to renew democracy in the country, which has only had four presidents since gaining independence in 1960.