A fourth person has been arrested and charged with the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year, Canadian police said, in a case that strained diplomatic relations with India.

About 50,000 opponents of a “foreign agents” bill marched peacefully in heavy rain through the Georgian capital.

The official death toll from devastating flash floods in northern Afghanistan has risen to 153 people across three provinces, the Taliban’s interior ministry said, while the World Food Progamme said it was double that.

The Biden administration said Israel’s use of U.S.-supplied weapons may have violated international humanitarian law during its military operation in Gaza, in its strongest criticism to date of Israel.

Ten cities in Mexico registered record-high temperatures in 10 cities, including the capital, authorities said.

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member by recognizing it as qualified to join and recommending the U.N. Security Council “reconsider the matter favorably.”

U.S. President Joe Biden joked that he wished former President Donald Trump had injected himself with a little bleach.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the country’s support for a Palestinian bid to become a full United Nations member was part of building momentum to secure peace in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Air drops through Jordan by a coalition of Western and Arab states are a lifesaver for starving Palestinians in Gaza struggling to get aid due to closed crossings and insufficient access, the commander of British forces in Cyprus said.

The United States is deeply troubled by actions taken against those protesting a draft law in Georgia and the government should change its course, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said.

Pope Francis formally proclaimed a Holy Year starting in late December, which will stress the need for hope in a world beset by hunger, poverty and war.

Peru’s poverty rate rose again last year, official data showed.