A fire that killed at least four soldiers and left 19 people in critical condition began with a smoldering grass fire that ignited in an Alberta military base’s training area where personnel were drilling, Canadian officials said Sunday.

US diplomats visited a Christian Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied ‌West Bank on Sunday following attacks by militant Israeli settlers on European diplomats and an American photojournalist in the previous two days.

A suspected drone exploded over Lithuania after triggering an alert that forced ​residents in northern and central areas to seek shelter for an hour on Sunday morning, ‌the president and other defence officials said.

Romanian F-16 fighter jets shot ‌down two drones over the country’s territorial waters on Saturday, the defence ministry said.

US President Donald Trump endorsed his ally Benjamin Netanyahu ​as the longtime Israeli prime minister struggles for an edge in next week’s parliamentary election.

A Mexican judge sentenced three men to 158 years and nine months in prison each.

Russian attacks killed at least eight people and injured 60 across Ukraine on Friday, hit two shopping centres and cut power to more ​than 1 million people after strikes on the energy grid, officials said.

The US Justice Department warned ​Los Angeles County and California election officials they could be liable as abettors of a federal ‌crime if they count mail ballots returned by more than 20,000 people the Trump administration says are probably noncitizens.

Bangladesh is battling to contain the world’s worst measles outbreak.

A teacher in the Oregon classroom where a ​shooter killed three children and an adult threw her cellphone at the shooter, tackled him and fought him in an act that saved lives, police said ‌on Friday.

More than a week after a Nigerian Air Force plane crash killed all 25 people on board, families say they are still ​waiting for answers as military teams search for wreckage and human remains in swampy terrain.

US police were investigating on Friday why a 16-year-old boy shot dead three children and ‌a teacher at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, and how he got hold of the long gun used in his attack.