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Russian ballistic missiles killed at least six people and ⁠injured over two dozen more in Kyiv early on Thursday. Fires broke out across the capital after strikes reportedly hit a children’s hospital and apartment building.

In a questionnaire obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera, the Pentagon presented a list of questions to 31 NATO allies to determine ‘loyalty’ to the US. A NATO policy expert tells Al Jazeera’s ‘This is America’ it makes sense for President Trump, who cares deeply about loyalty.

Fears are growing in a remote Bolivian village as Brazilian drug gangs fight for control of trafficking routes across the Amazon River. Footage shows people being attacked in the river port of Guayaramerin where security forces have been sent to protect the local population.

Recently released body camera footage shows a deck collapsing during a warrant operation in Huntsville, Missouri, injuring multiple law enforcement officers. The raid involved the Moberly Area SWAT Team, US Marshals, and supporting personnel.

US President Donald Trump praised his relationship with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un before saying he plans to meet with him later this year. Trump’s comments come after he ordered Pentagon officials to cut short joint military drills with South Korea.

An Israeli strike on Gaza City’s police headquarters has killed the women’s police chief, several officers, and a 13-year-old girl. The attack comes two days after US envoy Jared Kushner ended a trip to the region that failed to push forward the Gaza ‘ceasefire’.

Ukrainians in Kyiv held a protest in support of ousted defence Minister Mykailo Fedorov’s call for wartime elections. The protests came on the same day that Ukraine’s parliament approved Yevhenii Khmara as Federov’s replacement.

A Sri Lankan mass grave excavation has uncovered 582 skeletons, including babies and children. The site is linked to allegations of military killings of Tamil civilians during the civil war, with investigations delayed for 30 years. Al Jazeera’s Minelle Fernandez reports.

US President Donald Trump is scaling back US-South Korea military exercises as he signals interest in renewed talks with Kim Jong Un. But Pyongyang remains defiant, suggesting Kim may feel little urgency to negotiate given his relationships with China and Russia.

A former US State Department advisor on Syria tells Al Jazeera’s ‘This is America’ the improved relationship between Washington and Damascus makes sense. Syria’s new leadership’s priorities overlap with US interests – regional stability and containing armed groups.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank meets the definition of ‘terror’. His comments are a rare rebuke and follow a days-long siege of a Palestinian-American family’s home by Israeli settlers in the village of Qusra.

In an unusually private ceremony, Jose Mourinho has officially begun his second spell as Real Madrid manager, 13 years after leaving the club. He will be with Real through June 2029.

Hundreds of university students in Indonesia took to the streets of Jakarta on Tuesday to protest Indonesia’s government policies. The protests came a day after the country marked its 81st Independence Day.

“You’re a fake reporter,” Donald Trump told a CNN reporter who asked whether North Korea’s president had requested the US president scale back military drills with South Korea.

Video released by the Palestinian Red Crescent shows Israeli settler children attacking and blocking an ambulance transporting a patient in Hebron’s Tel Rumeida neighbourhood in the occupied West Bank.

Cameroon’s women’s football team received a hero’s welcome in Yaounde after winning its first Women’s Africa Cup of Nations title. The ‘Indomitable Lionesses’ beat Malawi 3-0 in the final, and also secured a place at next year’s Women’s World Cup.

Zambia’s Hakainde Hichilema has won re-election with 60 percent of the vote, after the count was briefly halted by attacks on election officials. Zambia is Africa’s second-largest producer of copper, a metal vital for the world’s energy transition, keenly contested by China and the US.

US President Donald Trump has revealed North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has responded ‘very positively’ to a request for talks. Trump scaled back military exercises with South Korea at the last minute on Sunday, and says talking to Kim makes the region ‘safer’.

A boat with 12 volunteers has left Bristol as part of a wider campaign to break Israel’s blockade and deliver aid to Gaza. Israel has attacked every flotilla trying to help Gaza since 2010, and volunteers on previous missions say they were abused by Israeli forces.

Lev Shlosberg, a senior member of the Yabloko party, was sentenced to 11 years and one month in prison on Monday for “discrediting” and spreading “false information” about the Russian military. The charges come in the lead-up to next month’s parliamentary elections.

Heavy clashes broke out in Baidoa, Somalia between federal troops and armed opposition groups. A number of civilians were injured at the clashes.

Iran’s Parliament speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has declared both a military and political victory in the war against the US and Israel. Qalibaf’s remarks came on the day the 60-day so-called MoU US-Iran agreement is set to expire.