Herald section
The latest reporting from across the Belfast Herald news desks.
Pakistani interior minister Mohsin Naqvi confirmed more than 1 million Afghans have been deported since November 2023 amid a crackdown on undocumented migrants, with 1,002,230 expelled in six months and 128,000 in May alone.
Two Israelis, including a pregnant woman and her child, are critically wounded in a shooting near Brukhin in the West Bank.
At least 28 people are killed in an Israeli air strike that struck the Gaza European Hospital, which the Israeli military claims had a Hamas command and control centre beneath the building.
Filipinos vote to elect all 317 members of the House of Representatives and 12 members of the Senate, in addition to local elections.
Fifteen Palestinians, mostly women and children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip overnight. The strikes occurred amid ongoing bombardment and a deteriorating humanitarian situation.
In his first Sunday address, Pope Leo XIV calls for peace in Ukraine, the release of war prisoners and abducted children, a ceasefire in Gaza, and a permanent end to the India–Pakistan conflict.
At least 23 Palestinians are killed, including three children, in overnight Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Palestine.
The United States facilitated a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, with President Trump and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar confirming the agreement. Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri later verified the ceasefire.