The Italian coastguard is carrying out operations to rescue two boats carrying a total of 1,200 people, it said, after a surge in the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa over the weekend.

French rescue workers have found a sixth body in the rubble of buildings in the southern city of Marseille that collapsed following an explosion, a spokesperson for the police said

Thousands of Israelis, including ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, marched to an evacuated Jewish outpost in the West Bank on Monday in support of settlements viewed as illegal under international law.

China ended three days of military drills around Taiwan saying they had tested integrated military capabilities under actual combat conditions, having practised precision strikes and blockading the island that Beijing views as its own.

A Virginia grand jury indicted the mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot an elementary school teacher in Newport News in January on felony child neglect and a firearms charge.

A man shot dead four people and wounded nine others in an attack at a bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, city officials said. The shooter was fatally shot at the scene, the city’s police department said, but it was unclear whether from police gunfire or a self-inflicted wound.

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Eight people are not responding to calls and are thought to be under the rubble of two buildings that collapsed in an explosion early on Sunday in the southern French city of Marseille, local officials said.

China’s military simulated precision strikes against Taiwan in a second day of drills around the island on Sunday.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ramped up his fight against Walt Disney Co (DIS.N).

The U.S. Navy said on Saturday a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine was operating in the Middle East in support of the Bahrain-based U.S. Fifth Fleet.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet Joe Biden in Northern Ireland next week.