The Houthis have launched attacks on four Saudi cities, while the US has struck five Iranian tankers, in an expansion of the six-month-old war.
KONSTANTIN TOROPIN
Jet-powered drones and missiles have pummelled Kyiv, killing five people, with explosions reverberating across the city as Russia resumed its attacks.
Vladyslav Smilianets and Anna Pruchnicka
Saudi Arabia has vowed to retaliate after 73 people were injured in attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis.
Staff Writers
The US military has sunk another Ecuadorian vessel the US Southern Command alleges was linked to illicit drug trafficking.
At least two people have been killed after Russia resumed heavy strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
Iran has vowed to announce a new restricted zone in the Strait of Hormuz and is threatening to strike US oil and gas assets in the wake of escalating tensions.
Enas Alashray
Conflict continues to escalate in southern Lebanon as 12 people die in Israeli airstrikes, further straining the tenuous two-month truce.
Ahmad Mantash
Lebanon's Health Ministry says Israel's air force has carried out two strikes on a southern Lebanese village, killing at least 11 people.
Amid US pressure to crack down on settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, Israel has ordered that unauthorised outposts be dismantled.
Alexander Cornwell
Kim Jong-un says North Korea's new 5000-tonne-class warship is part of a nuclear response system capable of "annihilating retaliatory strikes".
A senior Iranian official says the government plans to announce an "exclusion zone" outside the Strait of Hormuz.
An Israeli strike on a vehicle in western Gaza City has killed a father and his daughter and wounded at least six others, hospital staff say.
The Kremlin is not ruling out a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump to discuss the US envoys' weekend trip.
A suspected airspace violation in Poland's east was in face caused by a large flock of birds, the country's military says.
Far fewer homes went under the hammer this weekend compared to a year earlier, even as auction clearance rates held broadly steady, according to data from property researcher Cotality.
Chelsea Mes, Bloomberg
Southern Lebanon is being hit by Israeli strikes in retaliation for Hezbollah using drones to target Israeli troops in a security zone, the IDF says.
Ahmed Tolba
US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are in Kyiv after completing three hours of talks on the war in Ukraine with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Max Hunder and Anna Voitenko
Further attacks on Iran will draw a faster, heavier and more painful response, a senior official says as Tehran vows to address war-related economic problems.
The US ambassador to Israel says there is no plan to force Palestinians out of Gaza as he visits a Palestinian town amid a rise in West Bank settler violence.
Ali Sawafta and Alexander Cornwell
The Israeli military says it has cleared Hezbollah fighters from the hotly contested Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon.
Maya Gebeily and Rami Ayyub
The US Treasury has announced sanctions on a Turkish bank as part of its latest effort to sever the Iranian government's global financial links.
The Kremlin says Vladimir Putin's peace terms remain "unshakeable" as US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrive in Moscow for Ukraine peace talks.
Gleb Bryanski
Several South Korean media outlets are reporting Seoul is preparing to deploy military assets to the Strait of Hormuz before the end of the year.
Heejin Kim and Kyu-seok Shim
Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of four victims killed in an air strike at a wedding in southern Iran, as the US begins to probe the incident.
Nilo Tabrizy, Edward Carron, Idrees Ali and George Sargent
