Israels far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir released a video on Friday showing him taunting Israels most prominent Palestinian detainee, Marwan Barghouti, a senior Fatah figure, in his jail cell. The Palestinian Authority's foreign ministry denounced the confrontation as "an unprecedented provocation".

President Emmanuel Macron on Friday condemned the felling of a memorial tree for Ilan Halimi, a Jewish man tortured to death in 2006, calling it an anti-Semitic act and vowing to punish those responsible amid rising hate crimes in France.

Sudden floods and mudslides swept through Pakistan and the disputed region of Kashmir on Thursday, killing at least 60 people, injuring more than 100 and leaving 200 missing, as rescuers searched for survivors amid the debris.

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Friday accused Lebanons government of handing the country to Israel by seeking the groups disarmament, vowing to fight the move.

Four years since Taliban forces seized Kabul and ended two decades of Western presence, Afghan women face near-total exclusion from public life. Nearly 100 edicts have stripped them of basic freedoms, while any dissent remains dangerous and international pressure has waned.

Olympique de Marseille head off to Rennes for the Ligue 1 football season opener.

Rising sea temperatures are fuelling the rapid tropicalisation of the Mediterranean, with venomous Red Sea species like lionfish disrupting ecosystems from Turkey to Malta, scientists warn.