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Plummeting temperatures and an extended winter kill almost half a million livestock, causing a humanitarian crisis.

DAMASCUS: Israel carried out air strikes near Syria’s capital of Damascus, wounding two Syrian soldiers, Syrian state news agency SANA said early Wednesday. “At around 00:25 at dawn, the Israeli enemy carried out an air assault with missile bursts from the north of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting certain positions in the vicinity of Damascus,” SANA said, citing a military source. “The aggression wounded two soldiers and caused material damage,” the agency said, adding that most of the missiles had been intercepted by Syrian air defense systems.

A leading figure in 1990s US rap, Tupac Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting in 1996 and the case remains unsolved.

Syrian state media said missiles were fired from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and most shot down by air defences.

MANAMA: Bahrain is working steadily to promote the values of peaceful coexistence, the protection of individual rights, and efforts to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, an international forum heard on Tuesday. Noor Al-Khulaif, Bahrain’s minister of sustainable development, told the UN’s High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development that her country is committed to fast-tracking efforts to achieve the SDGs, under the leadership of King Hamad and Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, the Bahrain News Agency reported.

Two ballistic missiles fired towards North Korea's eastern sea as US nuclear-armed submarine docks in South Korea.

President Dina Boluarte has faced criticism for her government's heavy-handed response to anti-government protests.