Ukraine has warned that ‘difficult’ winter months lay ahead after Russia launched a massive missile barrage.

The Yemeni Ansarullah resistance movement says the country’s Armed Forces are left with no option but to strike the sensitive sites deep inside Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as the all-out blockade is in full swing.

A Yemeni health official says nearly 3,000 civilians, including African refugees, have lost their lives or sustained injuries as a result of Saudi strikes on border regions in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada.

Ukrainian officials have reported multiple missile strikes in cities across the country, including the capital Kiev.

Russia has asked civilians to evacuate the city of Kherson in anticipation of a wider Ukrainian counteroffensive.

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry has urged Canada not to use the World Cup friendly match against the national Iranian men's football team as a “political plaything.”

Oil prices climb as reports of retaliatory Yemeni missile and drone attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia rekindled concerns over supply shortages.