First troops touch down nearly a month after President Ramaphosa said organised crime threatened country's democracy.

Madrid recalls ambassador amid rising diplomatic tensions and criticism of US-Israeli actions in Iran.

The police requested the ban citing public disorder risks, while the organisers decide to hold a static protest instead.

As Kyiv liberates parts of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia, Zelenskyy says Russia losing up to 35,000 soldiers a month.

At least 85 countries have reported petrol price rises since the attacks on Iran by the US and Israel on February 28.

France's president said a French aid worker with UNICEF was killed, after M23 rebels said 'combat drone' hit the city.

IRGC releases a list of offices run by top US companies with Israeli links whose technology has been used militarily.

The Iranian Red Crescent Society says nearly 20,000 civilian buildings affected, along with 77 healthcare facilities.

Withdrawal of life support granted to family of 32-year-old man who has been in vegetative state for more than 12 years.

At least seven injured in the northeastern city of Kharkiv after a drone hit a 'civilian enterprise', officials say.