Israeli strikes on a school housing displaced families in northern Gaza killed 15 Palestinians yesterday, local health authorities said, as Israeli forces continued to demolish homes and buildings in Rafah in the south of the enclave.

Here is a look at the tit-for-tat measures the two countries have announced in the aftermath of the violence

Cardinal Electors: 133 cardinals under age 80 gather in the Vatican, staying in Santa Marta guesthouse under strict secrecy rules.

Cardinals yesterday moved into the Vatican accommodation where they will stay during the conclave, on the eve of their historic, secretive meeting to elect a new pope. Following the death of Pope Francis on April 21, 133 cardinal electors will gather today in the Sistine Chapel for an election that could last hours, days, or even months.

Israeli air raids struck Yemen’s main airport and power stations in the Sanaa area yesterday, Houthi media and Israel’s military said, the latest retaliation for a missile attack by the Iran-backed rebels.

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by parliament yesterday in a second round of voting after his new alliance with the centre-left Social Democrats was dealt a surprise defeat in the first attempt.

The US Department of Education informed Harvard University on Monday that it was freezing billions of dollars in future research grants and other aid until the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college concedes to a number of demands from the Trump administration, a senior department official said.

A barrage of Ukrainian drones forced Russian airports, including in Moscow, to restrict flights yesterday -- three days before the Kremlin will hold its grand military parade on Red Square to mark the defeat of the Nazis.

Myanmar’s junta declared a new post-earthquake truce yesterday, days after the expiry of a previous humanitarian ceasefire it was accused of violating with a continued campaign of air strikes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday told his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian that Moscow wants a “fair” nuclear deal between the United States and Iran and was ready to help advance talks, the Kremlin said.

Humanity recorded an unexpected and “unsettling” slowdown in development in 2024 as the global post-pandemic recovery began losing steam, well before President Donald Trump dramatically cut US international aid, the UN warned yesterday.

Coverage of the wars in Gaza and Sudan, and the attempted assassination of US President Donald Trump, dominated the Pulitzer Prizes announced Monday at Columbia University in New York.

Nearly all of the territory's inhabitants have been displaced

Merz needed 316 of the 630 votes, but he only won 310

A statement from the junta information team on Tuesday said the new armistice "to continue the rebuilding and rehabilitation process" would last until the end of May.

This major river originates in India but was allocated to Pakistan under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, signed by the two nuclear powers.

His words plunged the movie industry into uncertainty as entertainment companies saw their stock prices fall

New Zealand's prime minister on Tuesday proposed banning children under 16 from social media, stressing the need to shield them from the perils of big tech platforms

The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes and the New Yorker three on Monday for journalism in 2024 that touched on topics like the fentanyl crisis, the US military and last summer's assassination attempt on President Donald Trump

For their seven-part series, "Fentanyl Express," Reuters reporters purchased all the ingredients needed to produce fentanyl, revealing how the Chinese chemicals fueling America's synthetic opioid crisis are astonishingly cheap and easy to obtain – and why US authorities are failing to stop the deadly trade