Sick of floods, storms and other climate extremes eating into council budgets, local governments are seeking fossil fuel-funded compensation.

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting ​in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry said ‌on Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Iran ​had agreed to nuclear inspections into “infinity,” while Tehran said it had made no such concession in negotiations, raising questions about the viability of their fragile ‌peace deal.

The U.S. Senate backed legislation on Tuesday directing President Donald Trump to halt U.S. military action against Iran, the latest rebuke of the Republican president from an increasingly restive Congress.

American allies of President Donald Trump this week defended him to an Israeli public anxious about a U.S. interim deal with Iran and White House criticism that together ​appeared to signal fissures in Israel’s decades-old alliance with Washington.

The Democratic ​Republic of ‌Congo said late ​on ​Monday that confirmed ⁠Ebola ​cases in ​the country had reached ​1,048, ​including 267 deaths.

Thirteen years after the gang rape of an Indian woman on a bus in the capital Delhi made global headlines, a new case that comes close in brutality inflicted on a woman has been reported from the northern state of Bihar.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center said on Monday all 18 ​U.S.-resident passengers from the hantavirus-hit MV ‌Hondius cruise ship have returned to their home states after completing monitoring at ​its National Quarantine Unit.

Ukraine’s capital Kyiv issued an ​air raid alert ‌and authorities in a Telegram post ​asked people ​to seek shelter in ⁠the early ​hours of Tuesday, after ​President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned last week that Russia ​was preparing ​a massive attack.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said exercising the country’s position as a ​nuclear state is the only way to cope with an ‌unpredictable and complicated global security situation, KCNA state news agency reported on Tuesday.

Ukraine may revise its offer to Russia of a ceasefire along the de facto frontline if the United Nations Security ​Council fails to pass a resolution urging a full and ‌unconditional end to the hostilities, a top Ukrainian official said on Monday.

Crisis interventions for young people seeking counselling have more than tripled in recent years with kids still worried about the stigma of seeking help.