The escalation came as both sides have missed a 60-day ceasefire window to reach a deal, closing off the formal truce mechanism to end the six-month war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have threatened a military response to kites landing in southern Israel.

The Ukrainian president repeated his long-held position that elections in the middle of war would tear his country apart.

Chinese officials said the mission, the seventh in the Chang’e moon exploration program, does not meet the launch conditions and “cannot take place during the planned window this year.”

Indonesian police on Sunday arrested 72 people suspected of starting some of the recent forest and peatland fires as huge blazes in central and western parts of the country triggered a harmful cloud known as a choking haze.

The U.S. special envoy to Syria and ambassador to Turkey has clarified his comments on Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights

A humanoid robot ran 100 meters in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games, beating the human world record held by Jamaican runner Usain Bolt.

At least 30 people died and six others were seriously injured Sunday when a landslide and a garbage dump was triggered by heavy rains.