Conflict

For months, Ukraine has been caught up in a heated debate over whether the country needs to hold a presidential election next year as originally scheduled.

A group of hostages have been released today in Gaza, with the release deal back on after a row over aid supplies to the besieged enclave was resolved following mediation by Qatar and Egypt.

Russia has launched its biggest drone attack on Kyiv since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began last year, the city's mayor has said.

Hamas fighters have released 24 hostages during the first day of the war's first truce, including Israeli women and children and Thai workers, after guns fell silent across the Gaza Strip.

Vehicles have been set on fire and shops looted in Dublin after a knife attack that left a number of people, including three children, injured.

Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas will start a four-day truce on Friday with a first group of 13 Israeli women and child hostages released later that day, mediators in Qatar said.

North Korea's defence ministry said it would restore all military measures it had halted in an accord struck in 2018.

The World Health Organisation is hoping the four-day truce between Israel and Palestine will offer a safe space to take as much aid into Gaza as possible. Audio

As negotiations appeared to be nearing agreement, however, the fighting on the ground raged on with Israel saying its forces had encircled the Jabalia refugee camp.

The chief of Hamas told Reuters on Tuesday that the Palestinian militant group was near a truce agreement with Israel.

In New Zealand to meet with politicians, NGOs, and others, Francesca Albanese says there is a disconnect between atrocities committed in Gaza and the response of the Western world.

The Washington Post has reported that Israel, the US and Hamas have reached a tentative agreement to free Israeli hostages in exchange for a pause in fighting

The team visited the Northern Gaza hospital on Saturday and reported there were 25 health workers and 291 patients in a 'desperate' situation.

US President Joe Biden has said the Palestinian Authority should ultimately govern the Gaza Strip and the West Bank following the Israel-Hamas war.

Russian drones hit infrastructure facilities in Ukraine in an overnight assault that caused power outages in more than 400 towns and villages, Ukrainian officials said.

UN aid deliveries to Palestinians in Gaza have been suspended due to shortages of fuel and a communications shut down, as Israeli troops battle Hamas militants in the enclave.

Nearly 20,000 men have fled since the beginning of the war. Some swam dangerous rivers. Others simply walked out under cover of darkness.