Anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled on the perimeter fence of a Jewish school has been condemned by Australia's prime minister as the government considers tougher penalties for hate speech.
Israeli air strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded dozens in an area in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah designated for the displaced, Palestinian health and civil emergency service officials said.
More than 4000 people are likely to be affected by a massive landslide that flattened a village in northern Papua New Guinea, humanitarian group CARE Australia says.
China has staged mock missile strikes and dispatched fighter jets carrying live missiles as part of exercises Beijing says are to punish Taiwan's new president.
Four people have died and at least 35 are hurt after a tornado slashed through a small Iowa farming town, reducing homes and other buildings to heaps of twisted rubble.
French President Emmanuel Macron says security forces will remain in riot-hit New Caledonia as long as necessary, but the state of emergency shouldn't be prolonged.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called a national election for July 4, saying Britons will be able to choose their future in a vote his Conservatives are widely expected to lose.