A powerful thunderstorm battered Toronto, bringing torrential rain, severe flooding, strong winds and large hail.

Floodwaters overwhelmed parts of the city, submerging vehicles and flooding major roads, while tens of thousands of residents were left without power.

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella says 23 members of a FARC dissident faction were killed and six captured during Operation Azarías in the southern department of Guaviare.

The president was filmed walking among the bodies of alleged guerrilla fighters killed in the military operation.

Fireballs erupt as 'Israeli' forces blow up homes in the village of Houla while troops move through nearby Mais al-Jabal in southern Lebanon.

The footage comes as 'Israeli' forces operate inside a self-declared security zone along the Lebanon border.

Kuwaitis express concern over escalating tensions in the Middle East following Iranian attacks, as fears grow about the impact of the conflict on the Gulf region.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo during his first visit to Egypt in a decade.

The visit comes as Beijing seeks to strengthen its presence and influence in the Middle East amid the ongoing US-Iran war.

Images show the aftermath of a deadly passenger bus crash in Egypt’s eastern Sinai Peninsula.

The bus overturned on a desert highway between the Red Sea resort towns of Dahab and Nuweiba, killing 22 people, including 10 Jordanians, and injuring 28 others.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) published a video footage that shows what they claim is the launch of waves of ballistic missiles aimed at American military installations and assets across the region.

Heavy monsoon rains caused flooding across dense residential areas of Rawalpindi, on the outskirts of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad.

Floodwaters forced shops to close and prompted residents to temporarily leave their inundated homes.

Firefighters worked to extinguish burning vehicles after a vehicle carrying munitions exploded in Binnish, in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. Syrian authorities said the blast killed five people.

The footage shows the aftermath of the explosion, with emergency crews responding at the scene and putting out fires among the damaged vehicles.

'Israeli' military bulldozers, under army surveillance, uprooted dozens of olive trees near the northern entrance to Arraba, southwest of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. A landowner said the trees had been planted around 70 years ago and questioned the reason for their removal.