U.S. President Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass gun control bills in the wake of yet another mass shooting that left nine people dead at a Texas mall.

Some 1,679 people, including 660 children, have been evacuated from areas near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, a Moscow-installed official said.

Russia has intensified shelling of Bakhmut hoping to take it by Tuesday, Ukraine’s top general in charge of the defence of the besieged city said late on Sunday, vowing to do everything to prevent it.

Chile’s government said that 115 Venezuelan migrants who had been stranded on the border with Peru were repatriated to Venezuela on a humanitarian flight Sunday.

Russia’s Wagner mercenary group appeared on Sunday to ditch plans to withdraw from Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, saying they had been promised more arms by Moscow and suggesting they may keep up their assault on what Russia sees a stepping stone to other cities in the Donbas region.

At least seven pedestrians were killed and several others injured on Sunday when an SUV mowed down people near a homeless shelter that attends to migrants in Brownsville, Texas, police said.

Tens of thousands of Israelis joined protests across the country on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bitterly disputed plans to tighten controls on the Supreme Court.

A gunman shot and wounded at least nine people and killed an as yet unknown number of others at a busy mall north of Dallas on Saturday, police say.

At least 30 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in the remote Indian state of Manipur, officials say.

King Charles III was anointed and crowned on Saturday in Britain’s biggest ceremonial event for seven decades.

A week of record hot weather in western Canada has forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes.

Charles III will be crowned king tonight in Britain’s biggest ceremonial event for seven decades, a lavish display of pageantry dating back 1,000 years.