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Typhoon Bavi made landfall in eastern China, uprooting trees and forcing more than two million people to evacuate.

A German court has sentenced an Iraqi couple linked to the so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group to lengthy prison terms for enslaving, torturing, and sexually abusing two Yazidi girls in Iraq.

The long-simmering war on the Arabian Peninsula erupted again Monday as Saudi forces struck Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital and the Iranian-backed rebels answered within hours with ballistic missiles and drones aimed at southern Saudi Arabia.

The United States military has used unmanned sea drones in combat for the first time, striking Iranian naval facilities near the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command announced Monday.

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is under house arrest in Iran after authorities reportedly uncovered what they say was an Israeli covert operation to recruit him as an intelligence asset and ultimately install him as Iran’s leader, according to The New York Times and officials cited by the newspaper.

Hungary’s parliament was to vote Monday on a constitutional amendment proposed by Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s government to remove President Tamás Sulyok from office, a move that has sharply divided the country and prompted protests in the capital.

Britain announced Monday that it will designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under sweeping new national security powers, citing IRGC-linked threats, intimidation, and activity endangering lives on British soil.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko stepped down on Sunday after a weekend in which numerous people died in Russian air strikes and Kyiv’s counterattacks, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced fresh changes to his war-torn nation’s government.

At least 27 people have been killed in a fire that tore through a bar in Bangkok, one of the world’s nightlife centers, Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said.

French anti-terrorism prosecutors launched an investigation Sunday after weapons were discovered inside an abandoned vehicle near a synagogue in Sarcelles, a Paris suburb home to one of France’s largest Jewish communities, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of people.

A manhunt was underway Sunday after two men were killed and four others were wounded in a shooting at Canada’s largest Latin street festival in Toronto, police said.

An elderly Serbian man was recovering in hospital from friction burns Friday after he was partially sucked out of a Ryanair aircraft when a cabin window failed shortly after takeoff during a flight from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Memmingen, Germany, authorities confirmed.

The massive anti-Israel protest movement that swept Britain after Hamas’ October 7 attack has been driven largely by a coordinated and internationally financed network of activist organizations, according to a major new report presented Wednesday at the House of Lords.

Thousands of people gathered near Srebrenica on Saturday to mark the 31st anniversary of Europe’s worst single atrocity since World War Two.

Spain’s King Felipe VI, Queen Letizia, and their two daughters observed a minute of silence Friday after authorities confirmed that at least 12 people were killed in a fast-moving wildfire that swept through a tourist area in Spain’s southern Andalusia region.