Violence is raging across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day and France has imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory. French authorities in New Caledonia and the Interior Ministry in Paris reported that five people, including two police officers, have been killed in the violence.

World War II aircraft that moved troops and cargo across the North Atlantic to Europe are being retooled, fueled and readied to make the same journey the aircraft did 80 years ago for a commemorative flight to pay tribute to the D-Day invasion.

South Africa on Thursday urged the International Court of Justice to order Israel to halt its Rafah offensive and protect civilians in Gaza.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping reaffirmed their “no-limits” partnership that has deepened as both countries face rising tensions with the West, and they criticized U.S. military alliances in Asia and the Pacific region.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken may have thought “Rockin’ in the free world,” was the perfect upbeat song to perform with a Kyiv bar band. However, Neil Young’s 1989 song is a lament about despair and misery caused by homelessness, drug addiction and poverty in the celebrated free world.

A massive search is underway in France for a gang that killed two prison officers and seriously injured three others to free an inmate they were escorting. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says “unprecedented” efforts are being deployed, with hundreds of officers mobilized.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US is accelerating arms supplies to Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s military confronts a Russian assault on the nation’s northeast.

Ousman Sonko, Gambia’s interior minister from 2006 to 2016 under then-President Yahya Jammeh, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. His trial was hailed as a major breakthrough in application of “universal jurisdiction,” a principle that allows the prosecution of serious crimes committed abroad.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy postponed all his upcoming foreign trips, underscoring the seriousness of the threat his soldiers are facing, as they have withdrawn from some parts of the country’s northeast and were battling Russian troops in other areas.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has been shot multiple times and gravely wounded after a political event. The attempted assassination shocked the small country and reverberated across Europe.