Mali's President Assimi Goita pledged to intensify the fight against terrorism, reaffirming his determination to pursue peace, security, and development in the country.

Goita on Sunday made the remarks after a military parade marking the 64th anniversary of the country's independence, news agency reported.

"We will pursue these armed groups day and night until our country is completely free from this threat," he said.

The Australian government has announced additional humanitarian support for Gaza.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong and Minister for International Development and the Pacific Pat Conroy on Monday said that Australia will provide an additional 10 million Australian dollars (US$6.8 million) in response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, according to news agency.

They said in a joint statement that the funding will be directed to UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and will provide lifesaving assistance -- including nutrition support and hygiene and dignity kits -- with a focus on women and girls.

"Australia's support will help address the dire humanitarian situation with the delivery of nutrition and essential hygiene and health products," Wong said.

Unprecedented rainfall has left six people dead in Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture, with 10 remaining unaccounted for as rescue work continued, local media reported.

Among the victims, two men were discovered dead on Sunday near a tunnel where landslides had trapped workers. Another two elderly women were found dead on Saturday, buried under mud and debris, reports news agency, quoting the public broadcaster NHK.

A man rescued near the downstream area of a river was confirmed dead and one more fatality was reported as a home was engulfed by a landslide.

Authorities are still searching for two people, one in Noto Town and one in Suzu City, who were swept away by a river, local media reported, citing information from local police.

Israeli forces "are carefully planning the coming days" and their attacks against Hezbollah will intensify, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi has said.

Israeli forces have killed over 600 militants, "including dozens of Hezbollah's top military leaders," since the onset of the Gaza conflict last year, and have struck "hundreds" of targets in Lebanon recently, weakening Hezbollah's launch and combat capabilities, Halevi said on Sunday in a televised speech from the Tel Nof Airbase, a principal airbase of the Israeli Air Force.

"The price Hezbollah is paying is increasing, and our strikes will intensify," Halevi was quoted by news agency as saying.

"We have many more capabilities yet to deploy, and we are in a very high state of readiness, both offensively and defensively," he said.

South Korea is projected to see its population drop significantly over the next 50 years, and its global population ranking fall by 30 notches over the ultra-low birth rate and rapid ageing, according to a report on Monday.

The country's population is projected to reach 36 million in 2072, down 30.8 per cent from this year's 52 million. Data from Statistics Korea showed that the country’s population peaked in 2020 and has been on a decline, news agency reported.

The world population, however, is forecast to continue to rise during the cited period to reach 10.22 billion in 2072, compared with an estimated 8.16 billion this year.

South Korea was the world's 29th most populous country in 2024, but the ranking is expected to fall to 59 in 2072, the report said.

A policeman was killed and three others were injured while escorting a group of diplomats travelling from Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province to the capital Islamabad on Sunday, Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

An advance scout police vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Swat district of KP, which resulted in the casualty of the police, the ministry said in a statement.

The group of diplomats has returned safely to Islamabad, news agency reported, citing the statement.

Four employees of the Gaza-based health authorities were killed on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a warehouse in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, the health authorities said.

In a press statement, the health authorities said that four of its workers died and six others injured in the attack on their warehouse in the Musbah area, north of Rafah.

The statement added that ambulance crews are unable to reach the area to retrieve the bodies of the victims and treat the wounded due to ongoing Israeli shelling, news agency reported.

The Israeli army has not commented on the incident.

Pakistan reported three new cases of polio in the country's Balochistan, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, bringing the total number of the disease-infected children to 21 since the beginning of this year, the health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health confirmed that wild poliovirus type 1 was found in all three children who have been paralyzed by polio.

Expressing concern at the escalating number of children affected by the disease, the Prime Minister's Focal Person for Polio Eradication, Ayesha Raza Farooq, said that the government is determined to end the disease in the country,news agency reported.

"Every new case is a child with a name, a face, and a life that is forever altered by the crippling impact of polio," she said, adding that the disease is silently spreading in some areas of Balochistan and Sindh where parents do not administer the polio vaccine to their kids.

A trainee doctor has been arrested for allegedly making and distributing a "blacklist" of colleagues who are not participating in an ongoing walkout by junior doctors over the government's medical reform plan, officials said on Saturday.

The Seoul Central District Court issued an arrest warrant for the man, surnamed Jeong, Friday on charges of creating a list of doctors who either have not joined their striking colleagues or returned to work and distributing it online repeatedly, News Agency reported.

The list, created in July, contains names, phone numbers and other personal information of non-striking doctors and was allegedly distributed with malicious intent in violation of the act on the punishment against stalking crimes.

Russia's air defences intercepted and destroyed 101 Ukrainian drones over the past night, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Saturday.

The ministry noted that 53 drones were destroyed in the Bryansk region, 18 in the Krasnodar region, and several others in the Kaluga, Tver and Belgorod, Smolensk, and Kursk regions, as well as near the Sea of Azov, according to news agency.

In the Tikhoretsk district of the Krasnodar region, about 1,200 people were evacuated after a fire caused by two falling drones, regional authorities said.