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Lindsay Clancy has admitted killing her daughter and two sons while pleading not guilty to murder, citing postpartum psychosis.

The UN says around 860,000 people displaced by conflict in southern Lebanon have returned home, while warning that the humanitarian emergency remains immense.

Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal ordered prison authorities to produce three journalists who have been detained since 2024, as a press-freedom group called for a new crimes-against-humanity case against them to be dropped.

A press-freedom group says a Mexican journalist and TikTok streamer was shot by US immigration authorities and remains in immigration detention in California after 300 days.

Independent UN human-rights experts say Singapore has executed at least 16 people for drug-related offences this year and are calling for an immediate end to the practice.

Successive heatwaves and continent-wide drought have left vegetable and grain growers warning of catastrophic harvests, with French vegetable production reported sharply below previous years.

In Faka, northern Iraq, residents who returned after Islamic State’s campaign say extreme heat, water shortages and a lack of jobs are making life difficult to sustain.

The UN human rights chief says escalating conflict in Yemen is killing and injuring a growing number of civilians, amid Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia and Red Sea shipping linked to the wider Iran–US confrontation.

Mobile telecommunications and internet services have been cut off for more than a month in Fizi Territory in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, amid war.

An earthquake that struck early Saturday killed 53 people and displaced thousands in Indonesia, amid reported aid shortages and fears of starvation.

A baby bank says some parents are watering down baby milk as the cost of essentials rises, an unsafe response to household pressure.

Record-low water levels on the Danube have exposed Budapest’s “Rock of Starvation” and forced Hungary to shut down all but one Danube-cooled nuclear reactor, while some residents along the river struggle to secure drinking water.

Personal accounts from Delhi describe families trying to sleep through extreme heat while limiting cooling use because of energy costs.

Russia says at least seven people were killed in what it describes as the largest Ukrainian attack of 2026, while Russian strikes sparked fires in Kyiv overnight.

A Polish tourist bus overturned on a Hungarian motorway, killing 12 people and seriously injuring dozens more.

A visual report describes families in Afghanistan making survival decisions under deepening poverty five years after the Taliban takeover.

UN humanitarians say pregnant Sudanese women are losing babies and, in some cases, their own lives amid a lack of specialist healthcare support during the ongoing war.

Police say five people were shot outside residence halls at Virginia State University, with multiple suspects still at large.

A recall of nearly 1.6 million dozen eggs in the US south and south-west has been elevated to the FDA’s highest-risk warning amid a salmonella outbreak that has sickened nearly 100 people.

Rescuers are searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake in Indonesia destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed 47 people, as officials begin a rapid impact assessment.

The United Nations says continuing fighting in Sudan is taking a heavy toll on civilians, with attacks and further displacement reported in Blue Nile and North Kordofan.

A new study finds that four in ten adults in England ignore heat alerts even as amber heat-health warnings spread during the summer.

More than 10,000 attacks on healthcare have been recorded worldwide over the past eight years, amid conflict in Ukraine and an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Iranian authorities intercepted 3,663 kilogrammes of methamphetamine reportedly bound for Europe and the Persian Gulf in the first quarter of 2026, as UNODC warns that trafficking across the Middle East is becoming more advanced.

A UN report says the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is killing one person every 30 minutes and is growing at an unprecedented pace.

In Porto Alegre, poor neighbourhoods are still recovering from the 2024 flooding as residents brace for another El Niño.

UN agencies say satellite assessments show further building destruction in Gaza since October’s faltering ceasefire, alongside displacement affecting more than one million people.

A press-freedom group says Ethiopian authorities are pressuring five journalists detained for three years to admit to terrorism-related allegations in exchange for release.

Flooding in Assam has killed more than 100 people, inundated more than 2,600 villages and left thousands homeless, according to a report published Thursday.

A UN monitoring mission says civilian casualties in Ukraine reached their highest monthly level since March 2022 in July.