The Israeli military says it has targeted Hamas militants hiding in a school in Gaza as it orders the evacuation of Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Nidal al-Mughrabi
Israel has condemned a Christmas speech by Pope Francis labelling the attacks on Gaza as 'cruelty not war', saying the remarks ignored the cruelty of Hamas.
Staff Writers
Ukraine has hit a 1000km deep into Russian territory, a day after their hit on Russia's Kursk region killed six people, including a child.
A missile from Yemen has hit an area of Tel Aviv, Israel's military says, less than two days after deadly Israeli strikes on Yemen's Houthi-held capital.
Millions of hours of drone battlefield footage might help Ukraine train artificial intelligence models.
A powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar claims to have captured a key army headquarters in Rakhine state, in a blow to the ruling military junta.
Six embassies including Argentina and Portugal's have been damaged in Russian missile strikes on Kyiv.
Sweden plans to provide humanitarian assistance to Gaza via other channels after flagging it will stop funding the UN's refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA).
Russian forces have launched a strike on Kyiv and other targets in response to what Moscow says was a Ukrainian attack using Western missiles.
Mediators have managed to narrow some gaps on previous sticking points in a possible ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, but differences remain.
Russia has no conditions for starting talks with Ukrainian authorities to end the war, President Vladimir Putin says
Israel has launched air strikes on Yemen as its defence minister vowed the country's "long hand" would reach the leaders of the Iran-aligned Houthis.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is pleading for the joint help of the EU and the US to fight Russia amid fears Donald Trump could withdraw support for Ukraine.
Philip Blenkinsop and Lili Bayer
French Foreign Minister Jan-Noel Barrot says the new rulers of Syria will be judged "by their actions and over time" ahead of a summit on Syria in France.
Israeli authorities have called on residents of al-Bureij camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip to leave, saying militants had fired rockets from the area.
Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli forces will stay in a buffer zone on the Syrian border until another arrangement is found "that ensures Israel's security".
Melanie Lidman
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says an international meeting in Belgium could discuss the deployment of foreign soldiers in Ukraine.
We want the Government to urgently re-calibrate its approach to both domestic and foreign policy before it is too late.
Colin Rubenstein
A Gaza Strip ceasefire deal involving Hamas and Israel could be signed within days, sources say amid talks in the Middle East.
An Israeli air strike on a house in a suburb of Gaza City has killed 10 people and destroyed the building and damaged nearby houses, medics say.
Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad says in a statement attributed to him that he did not plan to leave the country but Russian forces transported him.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says about 430,000 men signed up voluntarily to the army this year, resulting in "a turning point" on the frontline in Ukraine.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has held a "very friendly, very warm and very important" conversation with US President-elect Donald Trump.
Maayan Lubell and Jeff Mason
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says three Ukrainian drones have attacked the Russian city of Grozny.
