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The U.S. House of Representatives advanced a $95 billion legislative package on Friday providing aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific in a broad bipartisan vote, overcoming hardline Republican opposition that had held it up for months. Zachary Goelman produced this report.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined hundreds of Global Climate Strike demonstrators in Stockholm on Friday (April 19), as similar events around the globe urged world leaders to take action to prevent climate change.

At least 69 people across Pakistan died in the past week after heavy rainfall caused severe flooding, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Emma Jehle reports.

Indonesia's Ruang volcano continued to spew volcanic ash on Friday (April 19) as rescuers said they remained on high alert following the evacuation of nearby towns.

Israeli media cited foreign reports of an Israeli strike on Iran in the absence of official public comment, while Iranian television reports played down the attack - many not even mentioning the "Zionist entity," Iran's term for Israel. Muted responses suggested neither side wanted to escalate the conflict. Lucy Fielder has more.

South Korea's government announced a compromise in its medical reform plans on Friday (April 19) in a bid to end a two-month walkout by doctors, and also said President Yoon Suk Yeol would meet the opposition leader for the first time after two years in office. Alice Rizzo has more.

At least 69 people across Pakistan have died in the past week after heavy rainfall caused severe flooding, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). “A vehicle was swept away by the water,” said Abdul Rasheed Nasir, the medical superintendent of Headquarter hospital in Chaman. “The driver survived, but three women and two children were killed. One child is still missing.”

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, said in Germany on Friday (April 19) that she woud continue to fight for media freedom and the work of her late husband so that “Russians who stand against Putin and against war have access to uncensored information they can trust and share.”

Ukraine says it has shot down a Russian strategic bomber 185 miles from its border on Friday (April 19) after the warplane took part in an airstrike that killed at least eight people in the central Dnipropetrovsk region. Rachel Judah has more.

Video captures flood water covering a highway and submerged vehicles in Dubai on Friday (April19) after a record storm saw a year's rain fall in a day.

North Korea has released a new song praising leader Kim Jong Un for being a "friendly father" and a "great leader" in a move that appears to be part of a propaganda drive to enhance his standing in the reclusive state.

Hundreds of Ukrainian businesses making weapons and military equipment have sprung up since Russia's full-scale invasion, but some are struggling to fund production and all are afraid of being targeted in intensifying Russian missile strikes. Francis Maguire reports.

A Russian attack on a Ukrainian residential building in Dnipro city on Friday (April 19) killed two and wounded at least 16, according to a local official. Russia launched a major Russian missile attack on the central Dnipropetrovsk region killing at least eight people, injured over 25 more and damaged critical infrastructure facilities, local officials reported on Friday morning.

Oil steadied on Friday (April 19) after prices spiked earlier on reports that Israel had attacked Iran, as market fears of a major escalation to hostilities in the Mideast appeared to ease and a build-up of global oil stocks weighed. Francis Maguire reports.

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies have identified "specific steps" needed to help Ukraine fight Russia, Kyiv's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said on Friday (April 19), warning Europe would be engulfed by war if Russia triumphed.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offense for allegedly stabbing an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney during a church service, Australian police said on Friday, as investigations continued into a riot after the knife attack. Syakir Jasnee reports.

Israel launched an attack on Iranian soil on Friday, sources said, in the latest tit-for-tat exchange between the two arch foes, whose decades of shadow war has broken out into the open and threatened to drag the region deeper into conflict.

India began voting on Friday in the world's largest election as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a historic third term in office on the back of growth, welfare, his personal popularity and Hindu nationalism. Ryan Chang has the details.

Israel has attacked Iran, three people familiar with the matter said, as Iranian state media reported early on Friday that its forces had destroyed drones, days after Iran launched a retaliatory drone strike on Israel. Laila Davies reports.

Colombia has started rationing water to alleviate droughts wrought by the El Nino weather pattern, which has exacerbated the Andean country's dry season and caused reservoir levels to fall. Syakir Jasnee reports.

Kenya's military chief, General Francis Ogolla, was among 10 people killed in a military helicopter crash shortly after take-off on Thursday, President William Ruto announced. The helicopter was visiting troops combating cattle rustling when it crashed minutes after takeoff, Ruto said. Devi Rajaram reports.

Law enforcement officers broke up a protest at Columbia University on Thursday (April 18), arresting over 100 demonstrators who had occupied a campus lawn in support of the Palestinian people.

India's remotest areas on Thursday (April 18) geared up for the world's largest general election on Friday (April 19).

A mosque in the northern Indian city of Varanasi is at the center of a dispute between local Hindu and Muslim communities, with one side hoping to build a temple there, and the other side set on preventing the mosque's destruction. As Angela Johnston explains, the case is symbolic of longstanding tensions between both communities as India hosts the world's largest election.

Large parts of the outer walls of Denmark's landmark 400-year-old stock exchange building collapsed on Thursday (April 18) afternoon, two days after a fire ripped through the historic structure, said Jakob Vedsted Andersen, chief of the Copenhagen Fire Department.