At least 34 people have been killed and thousands evacuated after wildfires broke out across Algeria, the country’s interior ministry says.

The Biden administration has sued Texas over a floating barrier installed by the state in the Rio Grande River to deter migrants on the US-Mexico border.

A heatwave baking the US Southwest for weeks is set to expand into central and eastern regions.

Two of the four people missing after floods ripped through the Canadian Atlantic province of Nova Scotia over the weekend are dead, Premier Tim Houston said.

After 17 years with an iconic blue bird logo that came to symbolize the broadcasting of ideas to the world, billionaire Elon Musk renamed Twitter as X and unveiled a new logo, marking a focus on building an “everything app.”

Police in Ohio unleashed a canine on a Black man who had exited his vehicle with his hands raised after a traffic stop earlier this month, according to officials.

At least 11 people are now known to have died after the roof of a school gymnasium collapsed under heavy rain in north-east China, state media reports.

Russia’s defence ministry accused Ukraine of a “terrorist” drone attack on Moscow on Monday, after the city’s mayor said that two buildings were hit and media reported that debris was found not far from the defence ministry’s buildings.

The mayor of the Ecuadorian Pacific port city of Manta, Agustin Intriago, was assassinated on Sunday, authorities said, in a brazen attack that stunned the political establishment.

A Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa early on Sunday killed one, injured 20 and severely damaged an Orthodox cathedral in the city centre, a UNESCO world heritage site, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

Russia withdrew from the Black Sea grain deal that ensured the safe export of Ukrainian grains because the agreement lost its meaning, President Vladimir Putin wrote in an article published early on Monday.

Former U.S. vice president and Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence said on Sunday he felt former President Donald Trump’s words and actions leading up to the Capitol attacks on Jan. 6, 2021, were reckless though not likely criminal.