Russian attacks on central and northern Ukrainian regions on Monday have killed two people and injured more than 20, regional officials said.
Near the central city of Poltava, falling debris from drones killed one person, injured three, and damaged a high-rise apartment building, regional governor Vitaliy Diakivnych said on Telegram.
Drone attacks and artillery strikes killed one person in the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk region near the town of Nikopol, Regional Governor Oleksandr Ganzha said on Telegram. Two people were injured in the town, and 12 throughout the region.
Russian forces launched two strikes with glide bombs in the Sumy region near the Russian border, injuring 13 people, including a 6-year-old child, regional governor Oleh Hryhorov said. Fifteen homes were damaged.
Senior Russian military officials have said their forces are committed to creating buffer zones in Sumy and in the neighbouring Kharkiv region in the northeast.
Reuters could not independently verify the accounts.
The recovery of hundreds of bodies from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza during the war that began nearly three years ago has raised fresh concerns about possible war crimes, the UN human rights chief said on Tuesday.
Indian police will question Google over a lack of safeguards after smashing a criminal network that set up and managed more than 500,000 fake Gmail accounts to send hoax bomb threats to government offices, a police official told Reuters on Tuesday.
The Saudi Arabian Civil Defence has issued an all-clear on Tuesday after issuing alerts about potential danger in six cities, including Yanbu, the kingdom's main Red Sea oil port, where millions of barrels a day are loaded.
Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan have extended their condolences to the UAE over the martyrdom of its two military servicemen, Major Abdullah Shams Al Menhaly and candidate Saeed Abdullah Al Shamsi, on Monday.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, met Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa in Dubai and expressed optimism the "nation...will regain the global standing it deserves".
Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism has updated the emirate’s holiday home regulations, making the system faster, simpler and more user-friendly for owners and operators.
Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa has highlighted how the country has transformed from being a "centre of conflicts into a centre of stability and a connecting point for investment and trade".