Ukrainian parents, keen to have their children attend normal classes more than three years after the full-scale invasion by Russia, started the school year on Monday by sending their children underground.

Thousands of protesters packed the streets near downtown Chicago, singing, chanting and waving signs protesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to flood the city with National Guard troops and federal immigration agents.

One of Afghanistan’s worst earthquakes killed more than 800 people and injured at least 2,800, authorities said on Monday, as rescuers struggled to reach remote areas due to rough mountainous terrain and inclement weather.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico will hold bilateral meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at China’s World War Two anniversary celebrations in Beijing this week, Fico said.

Romania wants to host a planned European Union Black Sea maritime security hub, Romanian President Nicusor Dan said after meeting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Israel pushed tanks deeper into Gaza City and detonated explosives-laden vehicles in one suburb as airstrikes killed at least 19 people on Monday, Palestinian officials and witnesses said.

Ukrainian officials discussed with NATO representatives Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities and Kyiv’s need for better air defences and long-range weaponry, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said.

Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama has removed the West African nation’s chief justice effective immediately, a statement from the president’s office said on Monday.

The shrinking of funding for Afghanistan, led by U.S. aid cuts, was hampering the response on Monday to a powerful earthquake in the east, with dozens of clinics closed and a helicopter out of use, humanitarian officials said.

U.S. President Donald Trump said that India has offered to reduce its tariffs on U.S. goods to zero, even as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was making public shows of solidarity with Chinese and Russian leaders in the face of trade pressure from Washington.

Degraded land, polluted air and water stress pose a direct global economic threat but using natural resources more efficiently could cut pollution by half, one of the World Bank’s senior managing directors told Reuters.

Samoa’s likely new Prime Minister says “the era of God-centred leadership” has begun.