A member of Israel’s war cabinet said he would quit the national emergency government should proposed legislation that continues to exempt ultra-Orthodox Jews from mandatory military service be passed into law.

The French government is raising its terror alert warning to its highest level following the shootings on Moscow.

Several opposition candidates in Senegal’s delayed presidential election declared rival Bassirou Diomaye Faye the winner.

A billionaire industrialist and a former Indian Air Force chief became the latest prominent figures.

Moscow’s Basmanny district court ruled that the first suspect in last week’s deadly concert hall attack.

Ecuador’s youngest mayor, Brigitte Garcia, and a staffer were found shot dead in a car.

The Islamic State still poses a threat in Iraq and the U.S.-led military coalition’s work with Iraq to fully defeat the group is not done, United States Ambassador to Iraq Alina Romanowski told Reuters in an interview.

The Nigerian army rescued students and staff who were abducted by gunmen from a school in the country’s north earlier this month, the military said, days before the deadline for a ransom payment.

The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas and the release of all hostages after the United States abstained from the vote.

Pope Francis at the last minute skipped reading his homily during a Palm Sunday Mass for tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square.

China’s defence ministry warned the Philippines against “provocative” actions and said China would safeguard its territorial sovereignty, a day after an incident in disputed waters of the South China Sea.

The Indian navy handed over 35 Somali pirates to the police in Mumbai.