International from Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

Law enforcement officers in the US state of Georgia responded on Wednesday to a shooting at a high school and where four people had been killed.

Seven people were rescued and 21 people are missing at sea after a migrant shipwreck off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa.

A public inquiry into the 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze blamed the disaster on failings by the government, construction industry and, most of all, the firms involved in fitting the exterior with flammable cladding.

An overnight Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's western city of Lviv, close to the border with NATO member Poland, killed seven people, including three children, local officials said.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will hold talks with President Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on Wednesday in the first presidential visit in 12 years, following a warming of long-frozen relations between the regional powers.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had asked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday to step up advocacy among Ukraine's Western partners to allow strikes on military targets deep inside Russia.

Egypt reiterated its firm stance on the conditions for any ceasefire agreement in Gaza, completely rejecting the presence of Israeli presence in the Philadelphi Corridor and the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza.

Haitian state-owned power firm Electricite d'Haiti (EDH) said that output at Peligre, the Caribbean nation's largest hydroelectric plant, was down to zero since Monday, after protests over distribution of the country's flailing power supplies.

At least 50 people were killed and 271 wounded after Russia hit a military institute in Ukraine's central town of Poltava with two ballistic missiles on Tuesday, the war's deadliest single attack this year.

The United States announced criminal charges against Hamas' top leaders over their roles in planning, supporting and perpetrating the deadly October 7 attack in southern Israel. 

The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday, saying he had refused to appear before the panel to testify on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.