Wyre Davies and Samantha Granville , reporting from Beirut and
Jessica Rawnsley
At the scene of Israeli strike in the heart of Beirut
Israeli air strikes have destroyed two bridges over the Litani River linking southern Lebanon with the rest of the country, the military says.
It comes hours after the Israeli military said it would target crossings it alleged were being used by the Hezbollah armed group to move fighters and weapons.
Elsewhere, Israeli strikes hit multiple locations in Beirut, killing at least 12 people and wounding 27, Lebanese authorities said
Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin promised a "better approach" on immigration enforcement and, despite recent criticism of the Homeland Security department, pledged that as its leader he would be "protecting everybody".
The senator's remarks came as he was questioned by colleagues considering his nomination to lead the DHS following Kristi Noem's departure earlier this month.
Reopening the department amid the partial government shutdown, potential growth of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) centres across the US, and ICE'
The US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was questioned over what Democrats perceive as a discrepancy between White House and intelligence community claims.
The gondola was seen tumbling down the snowy mountain, and flipping over several times before coming to a halt
A woman was killed when a ski gondola crashed down a snowy mountain at Engelberg ski resort in the Swiss Alps, local officials say.
Police in the central Swiss canton of Nidwalden say the gondola detached from the cable "for reasons that are still unclear" at about 11:00 (10:00 GMT) on Wednesday.
Eyewitnesses told Swiss media that strong winds were buffeting the
The former reality TV star guided his dogs through a roughly 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) race, completing it in nine days, seven hours, and 32 minutes.
The northern white rhino was last seen in the wild in Uganda in 1983
For the first time in more than four decades, rhinos have returned to Uganda's , where poachers once wiped them out for their horns and meat.
During that period of turmoil, hunters slaughtered every rhino in Kidepo and across Uganda's other national parks, which had once supported around 700 of the massive animals, the Reuters news agency reports.
Their loss resulted in the species' complete extinction in the wild
Iran's intelligence minister Esmail Khatib has been killed, the country's president has confirmed.
Masoud Pezeshkian said the "cowardly assassination" had left Iran "in deep mourning", after Israel said on Wednesday it had killed Khatib in an air strike.
Since the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the war on 28 February, multiple senior Iranian officials and commanders have been killed in efforts by Israel and the US to weaken the regime's leadership.
A selfie taken by Alexander Butyagin earlier this year at an ancient site in Ukraine's Crimea
A judge in Poland has ruled that Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin can be extradited to Ukraine, although his defence says he will appeal.
Butyagin is being held in a Warsaw prison for allegedly conducting illegal excavations and plundering artefacts from the ancient city of Myrmekion in Crimea - Ukraine's peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
