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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Germany's struggling Chancellor Friedrich Merz will be relying on the popular centre-left state premier ⁠in the ⁠eastern region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to keep out the far right ⁠in an election on Sunday which may decide his political survival.

Inflation in the United Kingdom has risen to a five-month high, an increase that will pressure the Bank of England to hike interest rates again over coming months.