Reuters

More than a thousand exotic animals, reptiles and pets perished in a sprawling market in Thailand's capital Bangkok after a fire ripped through over a hundred shops in the early hours of Tuesday (June 11), authorities said. Vanesse Chan reports.

Chilean police helped residents evacuate their flooded houses on Tuesday (June 11) as southern Chile battled intense rains.

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera said on Tuesday (June 11) that the country's vice-president, Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine other people were killed when the military plane they were traveling on crashed. David Doyle reports.

Playing a borrowed guitar, medical student Rahaf Nasser is using her passion for music to entertain children on the streets of Gaza. She is also trying to convey messages about the war to the rest of world, she told Reuters.

Malawi's Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine other people were killed when the military plane they were traveling on crashed, President Lazarus Chakwera said on Tuesday (June 11).

A conference on Ukraine's post-war recovery in Berlin will pave the way for Ukraine to join the European Union, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday (June 11). German Economic Minister Robert Habeck said that the meeting is "a very hands-on conference", with money and support for Ukraine.

Hamas accepts a U.N. resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details, a senior official of the Palestinian militant group said on Tuesday (June 11) in what the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called "a hopeful sign" during a trip to Tel Aviv on the same day.

Israel's parliament moved ahead with a contentious law on conscripting ultra-Orthodox religious students into the military. Angry scenes erupted on Monday (June 10) in the Knesset as families of some of the Gaza hostages demanded more action to get them home.

NATO should take over coordination of western military aid to Ukraine, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday (June 11) as the alliance's eastern flank states gathered in Riga. Speaking ahead of a meeting of the Bucharest Nine —a group of European countries on the eastern edge of NATO—Stoltenberg said centralized NATO coordination would help avoid the "gaps and delays" of last winter.

Parents of a young Israeli-American hostage support 'whatever it takes' for his release on Monday (June 10), as a deal between Israel and Hamas is yet to come to fruition. Laila Shahrokhshahi reports.

Protesters took to the streets of Paris on Monday (June 10) following the results of Sunday’s (June 9) European Parliament election in which Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party scored big wins.

Clashes between police and pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus broke out on Monday (June 10).

In the balloon warfare between North Korea and South Korean activists, one Seoul-based group has honed its tech expertise to develop balloons capable of dispersing leaflets and electronic speakers hundreds of kilometers across the border. Gabe Singer has the story.

Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday (June 10) she would encourage broad discussions over proposed constitutional reforms, including a judicial overhaul that has spooked markets, before the next congressional session kicks off.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris marked the Juneteenth holiday on Monday (June 10) by holding a concert at the White House South Lawn.

Malawi's president Lazarus Chakwera said late on Monday (June 10) that he had ordered that search and rescue operations continue until the plane carrying Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima was found.

A massive three-alarm fire erupted on Monday (June 10) morning at a four-story apartment building in Miami, where authorities responding to the fire also discovered a man who was the victim of a gunshot.

The United Nations Security Council backed on Monday (June 10) a proposal outlined by U.S. President Joe Biden for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and urged the Palestinian militants to accept the deal aimed at ending the eight-month-long war. Angela Johnston reports.

French President Emmanuel Macron visited Oradour-sur-Glane – a ghost village left abandoned after a massacre during World War II –with his German counterpart on Monday (June 10), a day after he decided to call a snap election following a bruising loss to the far-right in a European Parliament ballot. Kristy Kilburn reports.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the Middle East on Monday (June 10) hoping to deliver the ceasefire that President Joe Biden proposed last month, in an all-out push by Washington to secure an end to the Gaza war. Zachary Goelman reports.

A snap election called by President Emmanuel Macron after Sunday's (June 9) bruising loss to Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) in EU elections is a risky move that "opens the possibility that the extreme right arises," Anne Muxel, the executive director of Sciences Po's Centre of Political Sciences, said on Monday (June 10).

Three Valencia football fans were sentenced to eight months in prison on Monday for hate crimes against Real Madrid player Vinicius Jr, the first conviction for racist insults in a soccer stadium in Spain, the court announced. This report produced by Freddie Joyner.

Tensions over migration at the Polish-Belarus border flared up again recently. According to Polish government figures, the number of people arriving has been rising. Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centric government won the European Parliament election. But gains by the far-right may heighten tensions over migration. Olivia Chan has more.

Palestinian couple Mahmoud and Fatima Jarghoun sold their jewellery so they could perform the haj pilgrimage to Mecca – a journey they have been yearning to make for years. But with no way out of the Gaza Strip, their dream has been dashed. Olivia Chan has more.

The European Parliament took a shift to the right after a four-day election concluded on Sunday, with more eurosceptic nationalists and fewer mainstream liberals and Greens. The rightward shift could have a bearing on a series of important policy areas in the next five-year term. Europe Affairs Editor Andrew Gray explains.