More than 60 people were dead after an American Airlines regional passenger jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport.

An American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the Potomac River after a midair collision near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night, officials said.

Haiti’s transitional council president Leslie Voltaire said in an interview that a date for the Caribbean nation’s long-awaited general elections has been fixed for around Nov. 15 of this year.

Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa was declared president for a transitional phase, tightening his hold on power less than two months after he led a campaign that toppled Bashar al-Assad.

Four years after seizing power in a dawn coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Myanmar’s embattled ruling generals are making their most concerted effort to gain legitimacy – by pushing to hold another election.

Chile’s Congress approved a reform to the country’s controversial private pension system, clearing the way for the bill to be signed by President Gabriel Boric.

German election frontrunner Friedrich Merz succeeded in getting a motion passed in parliament that calls for a migration crackdown including the rejection of asylum seekers at the country’s land borders.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met with Hamas leader Muhammad Ismail Darwish in Ankara, Erdogan’s office said in a statement.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was meeting in Jerusalem with U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Netanyahu said in a statement, amid the Gaza ceasefire and a regional diplomatic push.

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to combat antisemitism and pledge to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests, a White House official said.

A small aircraft carrying oil workers in South Sudan’s Unity State crashed on takeoff from its oilfield airport, killing 20 people, the region’s information minister said.

Dozens of people were killed in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India as tens of millions of Hindus gathered to take a dip in sacred river waters on the most auspicious day of a six-week festival.