At least 42 migrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, the state's Gov. Greg Abbott said, in what appears to be one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Several people are reportedly injured after an Amtrak train with more than 250 people on board hit a dump truck and derailed in Mendon, Missouri.
A Russian missile strike hit a crowded shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 40, senior Ukrainian officials said.
The House Jan. 6 panel says it is calling a surprise hearing to present recently obtained evidence, but offered no further details.
Russia is poised to default on its foreign debt for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution more than a century ago, further alienating the country from the global financial system following sanctions imposed over its war in Ukraine.
NATO will increase the strength of its rapid reaction force nearly eightfold to 300,000 troops as part of its response to an "era of strategic competition," the military alliance's secretary general said Monday.
South African authorities investigating 21 teenagers found dead at an east coast tavern over the weekend said on Monday the youths were probably killed by something they ate, drank or smoked, ruling out the earlier-touted possibility of a stampede.
The ongoing war in Ukraine will move from being an distant conflict to something more tangible for the leaders of the world's seven wealthiest democracies on Monday with an address by the embattled country's president.
