Pakistan says it targeted militant hideouts along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in response to militant attacks across Pakistan. Afghanistan condemned the strikes as acts of aggression.

Police were probing an attempt to kill a senior officer 3 days before he was to appear as a witness at a hearing into corruption at the highest levels.

Ukrainian attacks have caused fuel shortages to spread from Russian-annexed Crimea to nearby parts of southern Russia, and ​even to the capital Moscow, which has previously been spared, residents say.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has little room to turn away any government willing to lend a hand in the aftermath of devastating earthquakes.

Andy Burnham has pledged to radically devolve fiscal powers away from Westminster should he succeed in his bid to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister.

Iran’s president says $6 billion in frozen assets in Qatar are to be released; a fact check of Trump’s comments on birthright citizenship, which is soon to face Supreme Court judgment; and an AP-NORC poll finds that fewer Americans are proud of U.

Brazil, Germany and the Netherlands get their knockout stages under way tonight. Follow all the latest news across the World Cup with ESPN.

CCTV footage released by Thai police to local media showed suspect identified as Australian Simon Peter Carman arriving at his residence building with a 17-year-old Thai girl in the early hours of Thursday (June 25).