The police chief of Peshawar said the building had shown structural weaknesses and its owner had been arrested.

Brazil's Senate approved a constitutional amendment to reduce the workweek to five days just 11 days before the presidential runoff election.

Two were killed when Houthi missiles struck the Maashiq Presidential Palace in Aden, a Yemeni minister said. Saudi Arabia has said Iran is fueling the country’s escalating conflict.

Russia is offering disabled and older recruits huge bonuses to shoot down Ukrainian drones. The fine print hides a nasty catch.

The Saudi -led coalition fighting the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels said Thursday it has thwarted a missile attack on the holy city of Medina as well as another attack in the eastern part of the kingdom.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney campaigned for national unity in oil-rich Alberta as advance voting was underway in a referendum that could set the province on a path toward a future vote on separation from Canada.

Israel said that commercial goods will no longer enter the Gaza Strip, cutting off a key source of food and shelter supply for the war-torn territory as hungry Palestinians face the approach of winter.

The potential deployment of the largest non-nuclear bomb ⁠in the US arsenal would mark a significant ⁠escalation in the conflict, although officials familiar with military planning discussions told CNN questions remain over its effectiveness in achieving Washington's ⁠strategic objectives.