The World Desk covers global affairs, diplomacy and international news. Its articles are researched and drafted with AI assistance, and every one is reviewed by a named editor before publication.
Edited by Lasse Pedersen
Israeli newspaper Maariv reports the military's munitions consumption since 2023 matches three decades of prior use, as a state audit finds Israel entered the war with pre-existing weapons shortfalls.
A Shenzhen court has jailed Hui Ka Yan for life over large-scale financial fraud, five years after his property giant's collapse sparked China's real-estate crisis. Evergrande and its main unit were also fined a combined $2.4 billion.
Chirag Paswan is stepping up efforts to draw Dalit voters away from Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party, aiming to make his Lok Janshakti Party the main voice for Dalit communities within India's ruling coalition.
As Brussels rewrites its tobacco tax and product rules, watchdogs say industry access to EU officials has surged and undisclosed meetings with Philip Morris International have prompted calls for a parliamentary inquiry.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has placed Japanese judge Tomoko Akane and Senegalese lawyer Abdoulaye Seye under US sanctions, barring them from American soil and the US financial system over their work at the International Criminal Court.
A new documentation project is recording how families in Delhi's informal settlements cope with temperatures that have topped 50C, as India increasingly treats heatwaves as disasters requiring official response.
Taiwan deliberately slowed mobile internet speeds across Taipei and other cities this week, the first time such a communications blackout has been built into its annual military exercises. The drill responds to growing concern that China could sever the undersea cables that connect the island to the world.
Kevin Rideout, an American missionary abducted outside his home in Niamey last October, has been released to US officials, his organisation says. No group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
A shallow earthquake struck off Indonesia's Flores Island early Saturday, collapsing buildings and triggering a brief tsunami warning. Rescue teams are still trying to reach the hardest-hit area near the epicentre.
Russian President Vladimir Putin travelled to the Kuril Islands for the first time on Thursday, prompting Japan to lodge a formal protest over territory both countries claim.
A Polish court sentenced Igor Rogov, once a coordinator for the exiled opposition group Open Russia, to seven years for spying for Russia's FSB. His wife received three years for helping him.
Settlers have surrounded and cut off utilities to Palestinian homes in Qusra, near Nablus, since Sunday, in what residents call an attempt to seize their land. Israeli troops have so far failed to remove them.
New coal mining proposals worldwide rose 11% last year, with India accounting for almost all of the increase as it seeks to secure electricity supply. The rise comes even as global demand for the fossil fuel is expected to plateau.
Söderåsen national park in Skåne protects one of northern Europe's largest continuous stretches of broadleaf woodland, land that was still being logged until 1989. Twelve years later it became a national park, and the beech forest has since regrown into a major hiking and wild swimming destination.
A total solar eclipse crossed northern Spain on Wednesday evening, drawing crowds of eclipse chasers, astronomers and tourists to towns along its path. It was the first total eclipse visible from mainland Europe since 1999.
Forecasters warned Beijing could receive more than a third of its average annual rainfall within 24 hours, as the remnants of the year's most powerful typhoon to hit China pushed floodwaters and landslide risk into the capital.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered a freeze on new firearm licences after a 14-year-old boy killed his grandparents and six others before taking his own life. The bodies of the shooter and his grandparents were cremated this week as the government pledged tougher gun laws.
Smoke from wildfires across Sumatra and Borneo has forced school closures in Indonesia and triggered air quality alerts in neighbouring Malaysia. Authorities have deployed dozens of aircraft, including cloud-seeding planes, as an El Nino-driven dry season worsens.
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the African Union's public health agency say they are investigating whether the Bundibugyo Ebola virus is mutating, as the country's outbreak becomes its largest on record and confirmed cases pass 4,000.
Record-low water levels on the Danube have uncovered wartime German warships, unexploded ordnance and a military motorcycle. The drought is also disrupting shipping and power generation across the Balkans.
A counter-disinformation group found accounts tied to the Russian military helped spread far-right narratives during the mass migrant crossings into the Spanish enclave, reaching hundreds of thousands of people within hours.
A divided federal appeals panel has ruled that President Trump's demolition and rebuilding of the White House East Wing exceeded his authority, setting up a likely Supreme Court appeal.
Todd Blanche, the US deputy attorney general, has formally dropped a proposal for a fund reported at up to $1.8bn (around €1.6bn) that could have compensated people the Trump administration says were wrongly targeted by federal investigators, including some prosecuted over the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.
Jay Clayton, Trump's nominee to lead America's 18 intelligence agencies, is on course for Senate confirmation, as a pause in US-Iran fighting and Oman-brokered talks over the Strait of Hormuz briefly send oil prices sharply lower.