News Desk

Pyongyang is ramping up arms testing as it seeks to develop more sophisticated weaponry.

LONDON: Jordan’s King Abdullah II stressed the need for the international community to maintain support for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, in a phone call with the organization’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday. Several nations, including Austria, Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the UK, have followed the lead of the US in suspending funding to the agency. Their cessation of funding came after allegations made by Israel that several UNRWA workers were involved in the Hamas attack on Oct. 7.

Laos, which is chairing group this year, stresses need for engagement as thousands killed in three years of violence.

As the war enters its 705th day, these are the main developments.

Three years since the military seized power, plunging Myanmar into crisis, thousands have been killed and injured.

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories: Even the dead are not spared by the Hamas-Israel war raging in Gaza, with bodies dug up by Israeli troops and hurried burials happening in hospitals and even a school. In Gaza City’s Al-Tuffah district, shrouded corpses of Palestinians torn from their graves lay atop muddied earth. Israel’s military had bulldozed the site and exhumed bodies, according to an AFP photographer who visited it earlier this month.

Israeli ministers spoke at a far-right conference which called on Israel to rebuild settlements in Gaza