South Korea will gradually take countermeasures in line with the level of military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, Deputy National Security Advisor Kim Tae-hyo told a briefing on Tuesday.The comments came as South Korea's presidential office urged Pyongyang to immediately withdraw North Korean troops that Seoul says have been dispatched to Russia for the war with Ukraine.

Washington state authorities said on Monday that five people were killed in a shooting at a home near Seattle and that a 15-year-old boy is in custody for the killings.Three children and two adults were killed, the King County Sheriff's department said in a statement. A girl who lived in the house was also injured.

IDF Arabic spokesperson, Colonel Avichai Adraee, issued an urgent warning to Al-Hosh residents in southern Lebanon on Tuesday morning."The IDF is about to carry out operations in your village and does not wish to harm you. For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move at least 1,000 meters outside the village of Al-Hosh. Anyone found near Hezbollah operatives, their facilities, or their weapons endangers their life," Adraee's warning read.

The war in Gaza has devastated the Palestinian economy, which is now 35% smaller than it was at the start of Israel's incursion a year ago, while development levels in Gaza itself have collapsed to the level of the 1950s, the UN's development agency said.Launching a new study on the socioeconomic impacts of the war, which the Hamas-run health ministry says has claimed more than 42,500 lives, the UNDP's Chitose Noguchi said that by some measures, the region's poverty level was now approaching 100% as a result of the disruption, with unemployment now at 80%."The state of Palestine is experiencing unprecedented levels of setbacks," she said over a crackling line from Deir Al-Balah. "For Gaza, reversing development by an estimated 70 years to 1955."