An artillery attack by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed 12 people at the main hospital in the besieged city of El-Fasher, two medical sources told AFP on Wednesday.

A doctor and a nurse were among the dead, the medics said, requesting anonymity for their safety.

Ukraine and Russia launched attacks on each other's territory early on Wednesday, leaving at least five people dead, authorities on the two sides said.

Outgoing French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, aiming to calm the political storm triggered by his resignation on Monday less than 24 hours after unveiling his ministers, faced a tight deadline Wednesday to break the deadlock caused by his departure.

Spanish emergency workers on Wednesday recovered the bodies of two missing construction workers in the rubble of a building that collapsed in central Madrid a day earlier. The recovery brought the death toll to four.

The top floor of a six-story building under renovation collapsed and pancaked the floors below on Tuesday afternoon.

Russia is waging a "targeted gray zone campaign" against Europe, including airspace violations, sabotage and cyberattacks that will only escalate if the Kremlin is not challenged, the European Union's top official warned on Wednesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron is running out of wiggle room. The abrupt resignation of his prime minister Monday — Macron's fourth in more than a year of almost ceaseless political upheaval — puts the French leader in a bind.

Spanish emergency services were scrambling to find four people who went missing after a building under construction in Madrid's touristic city center collapsed on Tuesday, injuring around 10, authorities said.

The toll "at the moment is estimated to be around 10, mostly minor, injuries", said Francisco Martin Aguirre, the central government's top representative in the Madrid region, adding that "there are four people missing".

A Ukrainian drone attack on the Russia-held part of Ukraine's Kherson region killed four people, the Moscow-installed governor said Tuesday.

"Four civilians were killed on the highway between Zavodovka and Gornostayevka as a result of a targeted drone attack on civilian vehicles," Vladimir Saldo, governor of the Russian-occupied part of Kherson region wrote on Telegram, using the Russian spelling for the towns' names.

Ukraine has found tens of thousands of foreign-made parts in the drones and missiles Russia fired in a weekend air attack on the country, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday.

"During the massive combined strike on Ukraine on the night of October 5, Russia used 549 weapon systems containing 102,785 foreign-made components," Zelensky said on social media, referring to an attack in the early hours of Sunday.

Iran does not plan to immediately resume talks with European nations on its nuclear program after they reimposed sanctions, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday.

"We have no plans for negotiations at this stage," spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said, adding that Iran was examining the "consequences and implications" of the restart of sanctions initiated by France, Britain, and Germany.