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The top United Nations court is set to rule on an urgent plea by South Africa for judges to order Israel to halt its military operations in Gaza and withdraw from the enclave

The top United Nations court has ordered Israel to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah — but stopped short of ordering a full cease-fire

Residents of the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, are working to clean up days after a destructive tornado ripped apart more than 100 homes in just one minute, took the lives of four residents and injured dozens more

Several tornadoes have been reported in Iowa and Illinois as storms downed power lines and trees

Rescuers are combing through piles of debris and wreckage to search for bodies after an explosion and fire at a chemical factory in western India killed at least nine people and injured 64 others

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador swept into office nearly six years ago with a simple motto laying out his administration’s priorities: “For the good of all, first the poor.”

The arrests began last month when a Russian deputy defense minister was detained

Maine’s top law enforcement official says a bulletin about the deadliest mass shooting in state history sent to police agencies had been leaked onto social media early on

The state’s top police leader says officers arriving without assignments after the state’s deadliest mass shooting led to a chaotic scene that was difficult to manage

More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea