Voters in the US state of Virginia on Tuesday narrowly approved a plan to redraw congressional electoral boundaries. The constiutional amendment could increase the Democrats' chances of winning four currently Republican-held seats in Congress in midterm elections in November.
The US government is in talks to send Afghans currently residing at a former US base in Qatar to the Democratic Republic of Congo, AfghanEvac, a group seeking to help the former allies said Tuesday.
Mexican authorities on Tuesday said a gunman who killed one person and injured several others at the Teotihuacan pyramids in central Mexico had carried materials related to attacks in the United States. One Canadian tourist was killed while visitors from Canada, Colombia, Russia, Brazil and the United States were among those injured in the Monday shooting.
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On an otherwise ordinary Thursday, a 14-year-old entered a middle school in the southern city of Kahramanmaras, opening fire on two classrooms, killing eight students and a teacher. The shocking attack followed another school shooting two days earlier in Siverek in Turkey’s Sanliurfa province, in which the gunman wounded 16 people before killing himself in a showdown with police.
Children who do not reach the age of 18 before January 1, 2027 will never be permitted to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in the UK, once a new law that has now completely cleared parliament gets royal assent from King Charles III.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has identified seven organic compounds in rock near the planet's equator, five of which had not previously been found on Mars.
Is Bulgaria going to be governed by its very own Viktor Orban? Or will the rampant corruption in the country finally be tackled?