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The comments came a day after Washington said it had struck Iranian oil tankers in response to Tehran's attacks on US warships in the region.

As many as 50 people are thought to have been inside the five-storey hostel when it came down.

More than 170,000 airline passengers are stranded after ash was detected in airspace near Jakarta following the eruptions.

Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun has appealed to the international community to "take immediate action to stop these violations" of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon.

The sweetener's prices surged last week, reflecting a sharp deterioration in the global supply outlook.

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, seeking to revive efforts to end the war. But the latest diplomatic push seems to have produced no breakthrough.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google all released model updates this week, while Nvidia said it's acquiring open-source AI platform Hugging Face.

Opposition Rahul Gandhi has said that students are "tormented" by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The Congress politician has demanded immediate action into the demands of Maharashtra student protesters. DW has more.