The UN says the disaster has left at least 2.2 million tonnes of debris, according to a preliminary estimate.

What we know about jailed HK activist Joshua Wong’s latest charge

The sweeping reforms come in the wake of last year's coup and ahead of a proposed return to civilian rule.

Another 28 people are injured in the accident in the South Sinai governorate, officials say.

The Iranian Red Crescent says a child was among those killed when shrapnel from hit a home, but the US military says it never targets civilians.

A BBC team joined a humanitarian mission of the UN peacekeeping force, which says Israeli troops are fortifying positions and continuing demolitions.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned airlines and insurance companies on Tuesday that the presence of Ukrainian drones had made Russian skies dangerous to use and that they were effectively closed. "Today, we want to warn ‌every airline that uses Russian airspace, every insurer, everyone who still uses key Russian airports: ⁠the Russian sky is becoming completely dangerous," Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that has effectively stifled the city's once-thriving pro-democracy movement. France 24’s correspondent Jan Camezind Broomby says the decision will almost certainly mean more time behind bars for Wong, already serving a prison term of four years and eight months after entering a guilty plea in a separate national security case linked to an unofficial political primary.

Foodics, a leading restaurant operations and financial management platform in the MENA region, unveiled Foodics Black at LEAP, an all-in-one management platform purpose-built for dine-in full-service restaurants with embedded payments, including fine-dining and contemporary casual concepts.

ASHEVILLE: EU economy chief Valdis Dombrovskis said Tuesday that it is not the time to “normalize” Moscow’s presence at G20 meetings as European leaders pushed back against the Russian finance minister’s attendance at ongoing talks. “I think the European position is known,” Dombrovskis told reporters on the sidelines of the US-hosted finance leaders’ gathering in Asheville, North Carolina. “We do not think now is the time to normalize Russia” or its presence at such talks, the Latvian official said.

The aim was to create a wolf-dog mixed breed that could be used by police for crowd control or by the military during South Africa's border wars in Namibia and Angola

A coalition of Ugandan and Kenyan activists on Tuesday blamed Kenya for the plight of Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye, whose health is deteriorating as he faces treason charges.