International news from Thursday, August 28th, 2025

Canada and India have announced new high commissioners to each other's countries, in the latest sign of improving ties frayed by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegation that India was linked to the killing of a Sikh separatist leader on Canadian soil.

Israeli forces killed at least 16 Palestinians across Gaza on Thursday and wounded dozens in the south of the enclave, local health officials said, as residents reported intensified military bombardment in the suburbs of Gaza City.

Pakistan's eastern towns of Chiniot and Hafizabad face a risk of catastrophic floods if an irrigation barrage crumbles on a major river upstream after heavy rains swelled it beyond capacity, officials warned on Thursday.

Russian forces launched a large-scale overnight drone and missile attack on Kyiv, killing 10 people, injuring 38, and damaging residential and other buildings across seven districts, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit China to attend a military parade next week marking the formal surrender of Japan in World War II, state media said, in what is likely to be the biggest multilateral diplomatic event Kim has attended.

All United Nations Security Council members, except the US, on Wednesday said the famine in Gaza was a "manmade crisis" and warned that the use of starvation as a weapon of war is banned under international humanitarian law.

Hundreds of people protested in southern Lebanon on Wednesday against a planned visit by US envoy Thomas Barrack, a day after the envoy stirred anger in the country by publicly scolding Lebanese reporters.