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Israel's Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5,000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters. Gabe Singer explains.

The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases drying up riverbeds that were navigable waterways.

A U.S. Senate bill aimed at enshrining federal protections and expanding insurance coverage for fertility treatments failed on Tuesday, as Republicans voted against it days after Donald Trump surprised supporters by voicing support for such a policy. Gabe Singer reports.

Drivers were left stranded on Portuguese highways on Tuesday (September 17) as wildfires continued to ravage central and northern parts of the country.

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales initiated a march towards the capital, La Paz, on Tuesday (September 17), targeting the government of incumbent President Luis Arce over the stalled economy. Syakir Jasnee reports.

A whole village in northern Hungary was submerged on Tuesday (September 17) following a flood wave that struck overnight.

London's Oxford Street, home to some of the British capital's most famous shops from Selfridges to Marks & Spencer, could be pedestrianized to attract more shoppers under a plan announced by city mayor Sadiq Khan on Tuesday. Olivia Zollino reports.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris called for an end to the Israel-Gaza war on Tuesday (September 17) at a Philadelphia forum organized by the National Association of Black Journalists.

Militant group Hezbollah promised to retaliate against Israel after accusing it of detonating pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday (September 17), killing at least eight people and wounding nearly 3,000 others. Cybersecurity expert Joseph Steinberg said it was surprising that the organization was using pagers in the first place given Israel's history of detonating devices.

A fire broke out inside Greece's second biggest oil refinery on Tuesday (September 17) forcing workers to evacuate as a column of black smoke poured across the evening sky, authorities and the company said.

Georgian lawmakers on Tuesday (September 17) approved the third and final reading of a law on "family values and the protection of minors" that would impose sweeping curbs on LGBT rights. Arrthy Thayaparan has more.

Cuba's communist-run government on Monday (September 16) slashed by a quarter the weight of its subsidized ration of daily bread, the latest shortage to strain a decades-old subsidies scheme created by the late Fidel Castro. Kristy Kilburn reports.

Lebanon's health ministry said at least eight people had been killed and more than 2,800 injured after pagers detonated across the country. The killed and injured include members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the group told Reuters. Zachary Goelman produced this report.

Three Portuguese firefighters died on Tuesday in one of dozens of forest blazes ravaging the country's central and northern regions, bringing the death toll from the latest wildfires to seven people since Saturday, authorities said. Alice Rizzo reports.

Brazilian military firefighters recovered a young ocelot from the remnants of a forest fire in the southern Rio de Janeiro state region on Sunday (September 15).

While volunteers and emergency workers raced to secure river banks along the Oder in Poland on Tuesday, for Lewin Brzeski it was too late, as the stricken town was completely under water. Drone footage showed the extent of the flooding as emergency services drove speedboats down the flooded streets evacuating people to safety.

CCTV captured the moment a man's bag exploded in a supermarket in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday (September 17).

Armed insurgents attacked a training center for gendarmes in Mali's capital Bamako on Tuesday (September 17) morning but the situation is now under control, according to a state television report.

Bad weather has walloped wine production in France, with output expected to down 18% from last year, the farm ministry said on Friday. One organic wine maker near Nantes says his crops have declined by over 80%. Sean Hogan has more.

The Portuguese government requested help from the European Commission under the EU civil protection mechanism on Monday (September 16), leading Spain, Italy and Greece to send two water-bombing aircraft each.

Malian authorities have said that insurgents targeted a gendarmerie school and other areas of Bamako on Tuesday in what would be a rare attack inside the capital. David Doyle has more.

Dozens of supporters of Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, whose ex-husband allegedly abused her by recruiting strangers to sexually assault her while she was drugged, gave her a round of applause as she left court in Avignon on Tuesday (September 17).

Dominique Pelicot, the Frenchman accused of drugging and raping his wife and inviting other men to rape her, admitted to his various criminal charges in court on Tuesday (September 17). Fiona Jones reports.

Parts of central Bratislava along the Danube River were submerged on Tuesday (September 17) following a flood wave that struck the Slovak capital overnight.

Ghana lost more than a third of its cocoa output to smugglers last year, with an official describing how it is being transported across borders in quarry trucks, palm oil barrels and even an oil tanker. David Doyle examines the issue.