Deadly Russian missile and drone hits Kyiv - Mayor

At least nine people were killed and more than 60 wounded in a missile attack in Kyiv early Thursday, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.

In Rome, tens of thousands of mourners have lined up for a chance to pay their respects to Pope Francis, whose body is lying in state in an open coffin in St Peter's Basilica.

Thirty-nine Palestinians have been killed in the past twenty four hours in Israeli strikes, Gaza health officials say. The Israeli army defended its strike on a school site in Gaza city saying it houses a Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad command and control centre.

(Photo: Paramedics and a rescuer carry the body of a person found under debris of an apartment building hit by a Russian missile strike. April 24, 2025. Reuters/Ivan Antypenko)