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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Legendary musician Jon Bon Jovi and documentary director Gotham Chopra share the journey behind "Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story," a series about Bon Jovi's 40-year career and recent health struggles, at the London premiere on Wednesday (April 17).

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.

NATO is working to send more air defence systems to Ukraine, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday (April 18), adding that delays in providing such aid were harming Kyiv's efforts to resist Russia's attacks.

A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile from 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Earth. Kristy Kilburn reports.

Iran's weekend barrage on Israel demonstrated both the strength of its airborne armory and Israel's formidable, yet costly, defense systems. The attack brought renewed focus on both countries' airborne military capabilities. Emma Jehle explains.

Traumatized 10-year-old students stare at their destroyed schools in Gaza, a grim reminder of the education and time with friends in the playground lost since the war erupted over six months ago. Lauren Anthony reports.

A letter written by Princess Diana and a portrait of John Lennon are among many items going up for auction in a British memorabilia sale next month, says Andrew Ewbank, a partner at Ewbank's Auction House.

Nearly two dozen women are at the center of a battle to have their village in eastern Serbia relocated away from a copper mine that they say has polluted their land and water and ruined the surrounding countryside. Olivia Zollino has more.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday (April 18) said the Middle East is on a "knife-edge" during a Security Council meeting that is due to vote on a Palestinian bid for full U.N. membership.

A storm hit the United Arab Emirates this week bringing record rainfall that flooded highways, inundated houses, gridlocked traffic and trapped people in their homes. Olivia Chan explains what we know about the reasons behind the record rainfall and subsequent flooding in the UAE.

UK-based Dexory has developed giant autonomous robots to patrol warehouses and use artificial intelligence (AI) to scan its surroundings. Ilan Rubens reports.

Rahoul Bobe pushes his bright yellow kayak out of a residential building's garage in Dubai on Thursday (April 18) to help people get around in the city's flooded streets after a record storm saw a year's rain fall in a day. Bobe said he decided to use his kayak to assist those left stranded by the floods or in buildings where power and water has been cut off and people have no access to food.