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A clash between rival Ecuadorian gangs has left 43 inmates dead, officials said Monday, little more than a month after another prison riot resulted in 20 deaths.

Israeli authorities demolished a residential building in annexed east Jerusalem on Tuesday, leaving 35 people, the majority of them children, homeless.

Sri Lanka’s defense ministry on Tuesday ordered troops to shoot on sight people involved in looting or damaging property, a day after mobs targeted the homes of ruling-party politicians. “Security forces have been ordered to shoot on sight anyone looting public property or causing harm to life,” the ministry said. …

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that Moscow had agreed to help Minsk produce missiles, including one similar to Russia’s Iskander, as it looks to beef up its military capabilities, the state-run Belta news agency reported. Lukashenko told a meeting of defense officials that events in Ukraine had demonstrated …

Spain’s government on Tuesday sacked the country’s spy chief as part of a widening scandal over the hacking of the mobile phones of the prime minister and Catalan separatist leaders.

A train has derailed south of Austria’s capital Vienna, Austrian news agency APA reported on Monday. Newspaper Krone said two deaths and 15 injuries have been reported, without citing sources.

Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned, following a series of violent confrontations between his supporters and anti-government protesters that saw five people killed and 189 wounded. Rohan Weliwita, Rajapaksa’s spokesman, said on Monday the 76-year-old sent his letter of resignation to his younger brother President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, clearing …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, saying it was necessary as the West was preparing to invade Russia.

Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday that “It is the Resistance that protects Lebanon from the Zionist aggression.” Hassan Nasrallah made the remarks during a speech at a Hezbollah election ceremony held simultaneously in the two southern cities of Tyre and Nabatiyeh on Monday, Al-Manar reported on …

Tehran says the prolonged talks in Vienna on reviving the 2015 Iran deal can be concluded successfully if the US honors “the Iranian nation’s rights”.

Eight Turkish citizens were kidnapped while traveling by bus in Haiti, the Turkish consul said on Monday, as the Caribbean country struggles with a surge of attacks by increasingly powerful gangs. The group was taken hostage on Sunday as they drove to the capital Port-au-Prince from the neighboring Dominican Republic, …

Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer will offer to resign if he is found by police to have broken COVID rules at a gathering last year, Sky News reported on Monday without citing sources. Starmer is due to make a statement at 1500 GMT, a Labour spokesperson said. The …

Ferdinand Marcos Jr looked on course for a huge victory in the Philippines presidential election on Monday, after an unofficial tally of two-thirds of the votes showed the son of the notorious late dictator surging ahead of his nearest rival. The massive lead bolsters the chances of a once-unthinkable return …

Israeli authorities have reportedly informed Western allies that the Tel Aviv regime is preparing teams to carry out targeted killing of leaders of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement who live abroad, as ongoing tensions in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories are heading towards a large-scale eruption.

Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated Sunday in a show of support for President Kais Saied and a series of extraordinary measures he took since last July that critics have slammed as a “coup”.

Cholera has killed one child and infected 30 people in South Sudan, the first resurgence of the illness in nearly five years, health officials said late on Saturday.

Lebanese citizens living abroad began voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday, with many set to back political newcomers after the worst crisis since Lebanon’s 1975-90 civil war led to widespread poverty and a wave of emigration. Nearly 200,000 Lebanese living overseas are eligible to participate in the election, the …

Heavy fighting is underway for Severodonetsk, formerly an industrial city of 100,000 people, and Russian troops are attempting to cut it off.

United Nations warns dwindling funds are affecting much-needed assistance and adding to children’s struggles.

It was Prime Minister Rajapaksa’s first outing since protests erupted amid the country’s worst-ever economic crisis.