International news from Tuesday, October 29th, 2024

For a third day, extreme rainfall pounded the southern Chinese province of Hainan, known as China's "Hawaii", amid the transit of yet another tropical cyclone, leaving the island half-submerged in a year of record-breaking wet weather.

Germany has recalled its ambassador to Iran over the reported execution of German-Iranian national Jamshid Sharmahd and summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires to voice Berlin's protest against the killing, the German foreign office said on Tuesday. 

At least 77 Palestinians, including 20 children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a residential building sheltering displaced people in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on Tuesday, the Gaza health ministry said.

At least 150 people were injured in a firework explosion at a temple in southern India on Monday evening. 

Lebanon's Hezbollah elected its deputy secretary general Naim Qassem to succeed slain head Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday.

Russia took 196.1 km² of Ukrainian territory between October 20 and 27, marking the swiftest weekly Russian advance this year, according to the Russian media group Agentstvo which analysed Ukrainian open source maps.

At least 60 people were killed and 58 others were injured by Israeli airstrikes in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Monday.

Thousands of people protested outside Georgia's parliament in Tbilisi on Monday after the governing party won an election marked by reports of voting irregularities, prompting Western powers to call for investigations.

Nine protesters were arrested after clashes with members of the security forces during a demonstration outside Israeli PM Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on Monday evening.

The US warned Iran at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday of "severe consequences" if it undertakes any further aggressive acts against Israel or US personnel in the Middle East.

Israel's parliament has passed legislation banning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from operating in Israel, effective within three months.