Hezbollah said on Thursday it is ready to enter into talks with the Lebanese government on a national defense strategy.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad Chief David Barnea met with CIA Director John Ratcliffe in the prime minister's office on Wednesday evening.

German conservatives under Friedrich Merz agreed a coalition deal with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, aiming to revive growth in Europe's largest economy just as a global trade war threatens recession.The deal caps weeks of haggling between chancellor-in-waiting Merz and the SPD after he topped elections in February but fell well short of a majority, with the far-right Alternative for Germany surging into second place.Pressure to reach a deal has taken on new urgency as the government will take charge at a time of global turbulence in an escalating trade conflict sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping import tariffs.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the south coast of West Papua, Indonesia on Thursday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.The quake was at a depth of 10km (6.21 miles), it said.