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Scuba diving groups and marine organizations in Thailand have been working to remove abandoned fishing gear, known locally as "ghost gear", from reefs through cleanup missions, but have a problem tracking its scale. Ilan Rubens reports.

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.

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.”

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.”

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.

It was a party outside Hollywood Blvd's famous TCL Chinese Theater on Thursday (April 18) as the stars of the cult classic film “Pulp Fiction” celebrated its 30-year anniversary. John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, who played the iconic hitmen duo Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield, said “Pulp Fiction” not only helped shape their careers but changed the face of filmmaking.

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.