Armenia on Friday jailed a senior cleric for two years over alleged calls to overthrow the government, deepening a standoff between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the influential Armenian Apostolic Church.

The Netherlands will treat a small number of children with life-threatening injuries sustained in Gaza, the government announced Thursday, reversing its previous policy and joining several other European countries.

Two people have been arrested over a "terrorist" attack outside a synagogue in the English city of Manchester on Thursday in which police shot dead the suspect, a senior officer said.

The attack, which left two dead and three seriously wounded, had been declared a "terrorist incident", added Laurence Taylor, assistant commissioner in counterterrorism policing at London's Metropolitan Police force.

China's top diplomat in Hong Kong has rebuked his American counterpart just weeks after her arrival and warned her against meeting people she "shouldn't meet with," according to a statement released Thursday.

Four people were injured and a suspected knifeman shot by police Thursday after a car ramming and stabbing incident outside a synagogue in Manchester, officials said.

French President Emmanuel Macron called on Europe Thursday to take coordinated action against Russia's so-called shadow fleet and follow his country's lead in clamping down on vessels used to bust Western sanctions.

Indonesian rescue workers were racing against the clock on Wednesday in the search for survivors from a school collapse in the province of East Java, with at least 90 students still unaccounted for, along with three confirmed dead and about 100 injured.

The Islamic boarding school, which authorities said was undergoing an unauthorized expansion to add two new stories, collapsed during afternoon prayers on Monday, sending slabs of concrete and other heavy debris crashing onto the students below.

The Russian army's advance in Ukraine slowed again in September, especially in the Donetsk region, according to an AFP analysis of data from the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Moscow's forces seized a total of 447 square kilometers (173 square miles) from Ukraine in September, accentuating a slowdown that began in August, the data showed.

France is probing an oil tanker suspected of being part of Russia's clandestine "shadow fleet" for "serious offenses", President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday -- stopping short of confirming reports of a link to mysterious drone flights in Denmark.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen Wednesday vowed Russia would not succeed in sowing "division and anxiety" in the bloc, at the start of summit talks in Denmark rattled by a spate of mysterious drone flights.

"It's a pattern, and this pattern is coming from Russia," von der Leyen told reporters as the defence talks kicked off in Copenhagen. "Russia tries to test us, but Russia also tries to sow division and anxiety in our societies. We will not let this happen".