The World Health Organization welcomed Wednesday's first evacuations of wounded patients out of the Gaza Strip, but stressed that thousands of injured civilians and people with chronic illnesses also needed treatment.
Police were surrounding a post office in Japan late Tuesday as a suspected gunman held at least one person hostage following an apparent shooting at a nearby hospital that wounded two people.
Medics from the International Committee of the Red Cross entered Gaza Friday for the first time since the outbreak of war on October 7, a spokeswoman for the organization said.
Hurricane “Otis” killed at least 27 people when it lashed the beach resort town of Acapulco on Mexico's Pacific coast as a scale-topping category 5 storm, officials said Thursday.
