Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he will give final approval for the takeover of Gaza City while also restarting negotiations with Hamas aimed at returning all the remaining hostages and ending the war on Israel's terms.

Walmart Inc. powered through an uncertain economic environment and tariff concerns to deliver solid second-quarter financial results Thursday, showing it keeps pulling in shoppers and outpacing peers like Target.

Pakistan and China pledged to expand economic cooperation and investment under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a flagship program of China's Belt and Road Initiative, officials said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday exchanged views on efforts for peaceful resolution of conflicts in Ukraine and in West Asia.

Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles against Ukraine overnight in the biggest barrage since mid-July, killing one person and wounding many others.

A post mortem on a Frenchman who died during a live stream found that he was not killed by trauma or a third party.

Elon Musk was ordered by a federal judge to face a lawsuit by voters accusing the world's richest person of defrauding them into signing a petition to support the US Constitution for a chance to win his $1 million-a-day giveaway.

Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking said.

North Korea has quietly built and operated a sprawling long-range missile base near the Chinese border that stores Kim Jong Un's most advanced strategic weapons, demonstrating the regime's ongoing efforts to advance its nuclear strike capabilities.

An explosion at a fireworks storage facility in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Thursday injured at least 25 people, some of them critically.

Witnesses reported that Bomze was "kicking and punching kids" to obtain the free item.

"We believe that relations between India and Russia have been among the steadiest of the major relationships in the world after the Second World War," Mr Jaishankar said at a joint media briefing with Mr Lavrov.

A popular French streamer died on Monday after suffering abuse and humiliating treatment during a nearly 12-day livestream. Raphael Graven, a 46-year-old military veteran, was known for his extreme online challenges, CNN reported.

Greta Thunberg and more than 100 more climate activists blocked Oslo's main avenue and a bank branch on Thursday to demand Norway shutter its oil industry, police and organisers said.

Thailand's suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra testified in a Bangkok court on her alleged breach of an ethics law in her handling of a border dispute with Cambodia, a case that could see her forced out of her job entirely.

A Ukrainian citizen man suspected to be one of the coordinators of the undersea explosions in 2022 that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany has been arrested.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he could meet with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, but only after his allies agree security guarantees for Ukraine to deter future Russian attacks once the fighting stops.

A British advertising watchdog has banned a Sanex shower gel commercial after ruling it "could be interpreted as suggesting that white skin was superior to black skin."

Russia launched one of its biggest aerial attacks of the year on Ukraine, firing 574 drones and 40 ballistic and cruise missiles overnight.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar highlighted the trade deficit of $58.9 billion between Russia and India, despite more than a fivefold rise in bilateral goods trade over the last four years.

A foreign tourist was facing a criminal probe for offending "the nation's moral values" for performing a pole dance on a Turkish flagpole in the tourist hotspot of Cappadocia.

For some people close to him, Raphael Graven was living "his best life" in the years before he died during a live-streamed event on Monday, watched by thousands.

Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina's Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway as the monster storm slowly began to move away from the East Coast.

The creation of explicit deepfake content is a criminal offence in the Netherlands and punishable with up to one year in jail.

Most Americans believe that efforts to redraw US House of Representatives districts to maximise partisan gains, like those under way in Texas and California, are bad for democracy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.