Close US ally Japan said it scrambled fighter jets after a Chinese military aircraft "violated" its airspace in a further escalation of regional tensions.
Separatist militants killed at least 39 people in "coordinated" attacks in southwestern Pakistan that targeted ethnic Punjabis, government officials said.
Ukraine accused its Moscow-allied neighbor Belarus of "concentrating" troops on the countries' shared border and warned Minsk against "unfriendly actions."
North Korea has unveiled a new suicide drone, state media said, with leader Kim Jong Un overseeing a performance test of the weapons, which experts said could have come from Russia.
Israel launched air strikes into Lebanon, saying it destroyed "thousands" of Hezbollah rocket launchers and thwarted a major attack, while the Lebanese group insisted it had been able to deliver a drone and rocket barrage of its own.
The UK military must immediately replenish its heavily-diminished stockpiles in order to prevent an “inevitable” war with Russia, the country’s former army chief said.
Moscow’s ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said he has reason to believe that Washington will soon remove all restrictions on its donated weapons to Ukraine.