The German military will establish a new division tasked exclusively with territorial defense, the army said on Saturday, bringing all existing reserve units under direct army command.The reorganization will take effect in April and raise the number of German divisions - units of some 20,000 troops - to four without increasing the total number of around 180,000 soldiers in the German forces."The territorial defense will be put under army command from April 1, 2025," an army spokesperson said, confirming a report by German news agency dpa.The German move will streamline command structures in territorial defense at a time when what Berlin describes as acts of Russian sabotage against the country's critical infrastructure have reached a new high. Russia denies the accusations.

US President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday to discuss continued support in the country's war with Russia, the White House said.

Russia launched 74 drones at Ukraine overnight, Kyiv's air force said in a statement early on Saturday, adding it had downed 47 of them, while 27 others disappeared from radars without reaching their targets.The air force said buildings and vehicles in seven different regions had been damaged by falling debris from downed drones, but that there had been no casualties.

The IDF has allegedly struck buildings in the Ayta ash Shab area in southern Lebanon, Israeli media reported on Saturday, citing Lebanese news sources.This is a developing story.

Defense attorneys for Ari Rosenfeld said on Saturday evening that the Shin Bet submitted an opinion stating that the level of danger associated with Rosenfeld has decreased.Rosenfeld's attorneys also said that the prosecutor's office has accepted this position but that they are also demanding the IDF's opinion on the matter. Rosenfeld's lawyers opposed this and demanded his immediate release.Rosenfeld was named as the non-commissioned officer involved in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) leaked document affair, court documents revealed in December.Reports from KAN News suggested that the classified information was selectively leaked to shape Israeli public perception regarding hostage negotiations with Hamas.

Mexico sent a team of firefighters to California on Saturday to help teams battling the raging wildfires that have devastated parts of Los Angeles."The humanitarian aid group is leaving for Los Angeles, California," Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on X on Saturday morning, posting photos of firefighters holding the flags of Mexico and California and standing on the runway in front of two planes."We are a country of generosity and solidarity," she added.