At least 20 people, including five journalists, were reported killed in the attack on the Khan Younis medical complex, prompting international condemnation and calls for an impartial investigation.
Witnesses and a hospital said Israeli fire killed four aid-seekers in a military zone used to reach a food distribution point as Gaza City faces famine and a planned offensive.
A checkpoint attack in Deir ez-Zor province was thwarted, but one internal security officer was killed and two attackers were neutralized, according to Syrian authorities.
State media said armed men attacked two patrol cars near Iranshahr in one of Iran’s most restive provinces; no group immediately claimed responsibility.
The U.N. rights office said attacks in el-Fasher and Abu Shouk deepened fears of ethnic violence as the RSF keeps up pressure on Darfur’s last army stronghold.
A shooting near Ramallah wounded one person in the West Bank, with Israeli forces searching for the suspect and treating the episode as a security incident.
The United States is sending three guided-missile destroyers toward Venezuela as part of a broader anti-cartel campaign that has intensified tensions with Caracas.
A Guardian-led investigation said a classified Israeli military database indicated that civilians made up about 83 percent of Palestinians killed in Gaza by May 2025, based on its own count of named fighters.
A car bomb killed six people and injured more than 60 in Cali on August 21, hours after a separate drone strike on a police helicopter killed 12 officers near Medellin.
Ukraine said Russia fired hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles overnight, prompting Poland to scramble jets and deepening doubts about peace talks.
Guatemala has agreed to let 161 Mexican nationals remain legally in the country after they crossed the border from Chiapas to escape cartel-related violence.
Israel's defense minister approved a plan to seize Gaza City, with the military preparing reserve call-ups, evacuation measures and a possible response to a hostage deal proposal.
Authorities in Tlaxcala opened an investigation after six severed heads were found on a road linking Puebla and Tlaxcala, a region not usually associated with cartel violence.
Donald Trump hosted Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House three days after meeting Vladimir Putin, as the U.S. moved to arrange a Russia-Ukraine summit.