The explosion in Homs targeted a predominantly Alawite area, a sect that has faced crackdowns and violence since the fall of former-President Bashar al-Assad.

Najib was convicted for his role in the billion-dollar scandal involving the country’s sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.

Cambodia accuses Thailand of "indiscriminate attacks", as negotiators meet for a third day to try to end weeks of renewed fighting.

The US president accuses the group of killing Christians, as Nigeria’s foreign minister tells the BBC the strikes were a "joint operation" and "nothing to do" with religion.

Russian forces attacked the city of Mykolaiv and its suburbs overnight with several attack drones, causing a partial power outage for residents of Mykolaiv district.

In temporarily occupied Crimea, the practice of shutting down or deliberately slowing mobile internet access is becoming a permanent norm.

Operators of the Prime strike unmanned aerial systems company of the 5th Border Guard Detachment destroyed a D-30 artillery gun, an electronic warfare system, communications equipment and enemy shelters in the Northern Slobozhanshchyna sector.

Fighters of the Phoenix unmanned systems regiment have repelled another Russian combined assault in the Toretsk sector, destroying a motorcycle column and an enemy tank.

A court has sentenced five Russian servicemen in absentia to ten years in prison for torturing civilians during the temporary occupation of parts of the Okhtyrka district in Ukraine’s Sumy region at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Soviet authorities persecuted Ukrainian carolers because they were seen as a threat to communist ideology and an expression of national identity.