Dozens were killed and wounded in Israeli air strikes on several houses in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, medics told Reuters early on Thursday.

A suspicious aerial target infiltrated from Lebanon into Israeli territory in the Western Galilee area, the military said on Thursday morning, adding that it was monitoring the target. Starting at 6:25 a.m. local time, multiple drone intrusion alerts sounded in Rosh Hanikra, Nahariya, and the surrounding area in Western Galilee.

US law enforcement on Wednesday arrested a homeless Florida man and charged him with plotting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange after an undercover employee recorded him saying, "I feel like Bin Laden," federal officials allege.The suspect, Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, took steps to set off a bomb outside the stock exchange on Wall Street in lower Manhattan, according to an FBI affidavit.The affidavit was filed in support of a criminal complaint charging Yener with attempting to damage or destroy a building used in interstate commerce by means of an explosive.Yener has been assigned a federal public defender in the Southern District of Florida whose office did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for a statement regarding his defense.Yener's motives remained unclear. The FBI said that besides making the comment about Osama bin Laden, the former al Qaeda leader and mastermind of the 2001 attacks on the United States, Yener also described an attempt to join right-wing militias and expressed general anti-government sentiment, saying, "This country is due for a revolution."

France's foreign ministry spokesman on Thursday said he could not confirm Russia had launched an intercontinental ballistic missile in an attack on Ukraine but added such a move would be a serious escalation if reports are true.Kyiv's air force earlier said Russia fired an intercontinental ballistic missile during an attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, in what would be the first use in war of a weapon designed to deliver long-distance nuclear strikes."If confirmed we will react in an appropriate manner," Christophe Lemoine told journalists at a news conference.

Mexico will receive deported Mexicans and has a plan for it if the government of US President-elect Donald Trump moves forward with deportations, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday.Sheinbaum said in her morning press conference that her cabinet would be meeting Thursday to discuss migration and other issues of the bi-lateral relationship with the US, including trade and security.