Petition to ban French right-wing TV channel clears 500,000 signatures after racist killing

Local officials say 27 people had been missing after at least nine 3,000kg aerial bombs hit a village in southern Ukraine.

Trump must decide whether to end the war or return to it, Iran says, as both sides trade threats, but keep diplomacy alive.

Tehran on Monday said that the country was holding "intensive" indirect talks with Washington to avoid a fresh round of US attacks on Iran ahead of the US midterm elections this week. Foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei shared Iranian plans to reopen blockaded energy corridor, the Strait of Hormuz, if the US were to meet its demands.

Though unprecedented, the six-day truce has done little to alter the wider trajectory of a war that continues to grinds on.