India’s top court suspended opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi’s defamation conviction on Friday, allowing him to return to parliament and contest national elections due next year.

Thousands of people overran New York City’s Union Square and the surrounding streets on Friday in a chaotic scene after a popular live streamer announced a “giveaway” event, with police struggling to contain fans throwing projectiles and injuring officers.

The U.S. Army on Friday became the second branch of the U.S. military to no longer have a Senate-confirmed leader, as a Republican senator continues to block military nominations, a move military leaders said threatens readiness and undermines retention of officers.

A Russian warship was seriously damaged in an overnight Ukrainian naval drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea navy base at Novorossiysk, the first time the Ukrainian navy has projected its power so far from the country’s shores.

The judge in former U.S. President Donald Trump’s upcoming trial over his handling of classified documents made two errors in a June trial, including one that potentially violated the defendant’s constitutional rights and could have invalidated the proceedings, according to legal experts and a court transcript.

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny had an extra 19 years in a maximum security penal colony added to his jail term on Friday in a criminal case which he said afterwards was designed to cow the Russian people into political submission.

A Pakistan high court on Friday temporarily halted former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s trial on charges he illegally sold state gifts, his lawyer said, in a case that could end the opposition leader’s political career if convicted.

At least 17 people died in western Mexico when a passenger bus plunged off a highway into a ravine, a state official said, adding that 22 more had been injured but were in a stable condition.

Three offices meant to attend Haitian, Cuban and Venezuelan migrants hoping to reach the United States will open in Colombia, the Andean country’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, the initial phase of a plan to reduce migrant flows through the dangerous Darien Gap.

A body was found stuck in a barrier of buoys installed by Texas authorities in the Rio Grande river, which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexico’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday while expressing fresh safety concerns over the floating fence.

North Korea has confirmed custody of Travis King in its first response to requests for information on the US soldier’s whereabouts, the UN Command has said.

Two US Navy sailors in California have been arrested on charges of providing sensitive military information to China, authorities said Thursday.