The U.N. peacekeeping mission for Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, said one peacekeeper was killed and others were wounded when they came under mortar fire in southeastern Lebanon.

Starmer acknowledged there are “serious questions to answer, including how accusations of racism informed police thinking,” but emphasized there is “no justification for more violence and disorder.”

Flights resumed Wednesday at Kuwait's main airport in Kuwait City after Iranian missile and drone strikes killed one person.

Her graphic novel series, published in English in 2003, followed an Iranian girl through the Islamic revolution and the Iran-Iraq War. The work humanized Iranians for millions.

Ukrainian long-range drones struck an oil terminal in St. Petersburg and set it ablaze, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday, sending smoke billowing over the city where President Vladimir Putin was born as it hosts Russia’s leading event for attracting foreign capital.

Nine Palestinians died in at least four separate Israeli strikes in Gaza City, according to Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies.

The ruling Democratic Party (DP) clinched a resounding victory in the local elections and parliamentary by-elections, while the main opposition party retained the Seoul mayoral seat.

Hungary agreed to drop its opposition to opening the formal access talks but is still opposed to the fast-track membership process that Ukraine says it needs as protection from Russia.