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The International Olympic Committee has put in place "safeguarding practices" after a number of Israeli athletes received death threats, an IOC official told a press conference on Saturday (July 20).

Israeli fighter jets struck Houthi military targets in the area of Hodeidah port in Yemen on Saturday (July 20), the Israeli military said, a day after a drone launched by the Iranian-backed group hit Israel's economic hub Tel Aviv. Angela Johnston reports.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told a crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Saturday (July 20), "I took a bullet for democracy." It was the former U.S. president's first public rally since an assassination attempt against him in Pennsylvania.

Greek Cypriots mourned and Turkish Cypriots rejoiced on Saturday (July 20), the 50th anniversary of Turkey's invasion of part of the island after a brief Greek inspired coup, with the chances of reconciliation as elusive as ever. Mia Womersley reports.

Video obtained by Reuters showed an Israeli strike on a building in central Gaza's Nuseirat camp, followed by an explosion and clouds of smoke billowing. Rescue workers said several people, including two local journalists, were wounded.

French police used tear gas to disperse climate activists gathering in western France on Saturday (July 20). The protesters oppose the building of water reservoirs for agricultural use. The basins, heavily financed by the French state, are designed to store water in winter in order to irrigate crops during increasingly dry summers. Opponents say storing groundwater in the open exposes it to evaporation and potential contamination.

Thousands of Shanghai residents flocked to a waterpark in the outskirt of the city after it opened for the summer season on Saturday (July 20) amid a heatwave that continued to bake China’s financial hub. Temperatures rose above 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit as large crowds of people splashed in the pools at Playamaya waterpark.

Soldiers patrolled the deserted streets of the capital Dhaka on Saturday (July 20) during a curfew meant to quell deadly students-led protests against government job quotas that have killed at least 110 people this week. Mia Womersley reports.

A highway bridge collapsed due to a flash flood in Shaanxi province in China's northwest, causing vehicles to fall into a river and killing 11 people, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Saturday (July 20).

Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar ascended the throne as Malaysia’s 17th king on Saturday (July 20) during an elaborate coronation ceremony in the national palace.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday (July 19) discussed Iran's political landscape following its recent elections, noting the continued influence of Iran's supreme leader alongside the election of a new reformist president.

France's Val d'Oise department played host to the Olympic Torch Relay on Friday (July 19).

Air traffic above the United States slowed down on Friday (July 19) as seen on a Flightradar animation during a global tech outage that appeared to be related to issues at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and Microsoft.

The United States 'will do what is necessary' to see that the Philippines is able to resupply a ship on the Second Thomas Shoal that Manila uses to reinforce its claims to the atoll, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday (July 19).

A global cyber outage caused long queues in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez on Friday (July 19) as people waited to cross into the United States.

Presiding judge Nawaf Salam of the United Nations' highest court said on Friday that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements there are illegal and should be withdrawn as soon as possible, in its strongest findings to date on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Lucy Fielder has more.

The National Press Club said it was 'horrified' after a Russian court found U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich guilty of espionage on Friday (July 19) and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony in what his employer, the Wall Street Journal, called "a disgraceful sham conviction."

Ukraine's artistic gymnastics team departed for the Paris 2024 Olympics on Thursday (July 18) from Kyiv's railway station. "Ukraine has a will for victory," said Oleh Verniaiev, a gold medalist at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Team coach, Hennadiy Sartynskyi, said the competition is a chance to show what Ukraine is fighting for.

Presiding judge Nawaf Salam of the United Nations' highest court said on Friday that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements there are illegal and should be withdrawn as soon as possible, in its strongest findings to date on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

The United States is working for the release of reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was found guilty of espionage and sentenced to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony in Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday (July 19).

Roads torn up months ago by Israeli army bulldozers in Jenin refugee camp remain unpassable because the Palestinian Authority, or PA, can't afford to fix them. Government employees are being paid a fraction of their salaries, and health services are collapsing. Financial crisis has crippled the PA, which Washington hopes will one day run Gaza. Lucy Fielder has more.

A global tech outage was disrupting operations in multiple industries on Friday, with airlines halting flights, some broadcasters being forced off-air and everything from banking to healthcare hit by system problems. So what happened, and what impact have the outages had? Francis Maguire has more.

Large and intense wildfires in eastern Russia's boreal forest and the Arctic circle are driving increased smoke and carbon emissions, according to data from European Union's Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS). Zachary Goelman produced this report.

Footage recorded on a phone and released by the Israeli army showed a drone flying over Tel Aviv's shores and then a blast in the coastal city on Friday (July 19).

Once a bustling hub, Nicosia International Airport has stood deserted for the past 50 years, as a symbol of Turkey's invasion of Cyprus half a century ago following a brief Greek-inspired coup. U.N. spokesperson Aleem Siddique says attempts to reopen the airport through reunification talks have failed over the years.