Rescuers searching for 10 climbers missing on Pakistan's Broad Peak located four bodies and were looking for the others, officials said. Acclaimed climber Nirmal Purja was among the missing.

"Untimely assistance and delays in the delivery of anti-ballistic missiles lead to this kind of destruction," said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Iran's army said it launched attacks on strategic U.S. assets and military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. It comes shortly after Egypt said that a drone hit two ships at its Mediterranean port of Damietta.

Searchers continued to work in the Kumamoto area, including at the site of the collapsed mall, where some of the most serious damage was recorded.

Firefighters in southwestern France were working to control the last hot spots of a massive wildfire on Friday that has burned an area four times the size of Paris and forced thousands out of their homes.

Fourteen nations have backed the formation of a Saudi-led coalition to protect shipping routes from Houthi attacks in and around the Red Sea.

Overnight, the U.S. military said it struck Iran's Revolutionary Guards' military command centers, drone facilities after Tehran fired at U.S. forces.

Anthropic said on Thursday some of its Claude AI models had hacked into the systems of three companies during cybersecurity tests, a disclosure that comes days after ​rival OpenAI revealed that one of its AI agents went on a rogue attack.